Difference between revisions of "English Literature"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created page with "The teaching of English literature at Edinburgh University began with the Foundation of Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1760|Creation of the Chair of Rhetoric and Bell...") |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 10:52, 23 March 2016
The teaching of English literature at Edinburgh University began with the Creation of the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in 1760 . At over 250 years old, Edinburgh University has the longest established English Department in the world.
Professors of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
- 1760-1784: Hugh Blair (1718-1800)
- 1784-1798: William Greenfield (1755-1827
- 1801-1834: Andrew Brown (1763-1834)
- 1835-1840: George Moir (1800-1870)
- 1840-1845: George Spalding (1809-1859
- 1845-1865: William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
Professors of Rhetoric and English Literature
- 1865-1895: David Mather Masson (1822-1907)
- Alexander Bower, The History of the University of Edinburgh. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1817-1830.
- Sir Alexander Grant, The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years, 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884)