Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature (Edinburgh)

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The Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature is a 1762 by George III. as Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres appointed Regius Professor of Literature at the University of Edinburgh . The name was changed in 1861.

History of the professorship

By the mid-18th century, an atmosphere had developed in Scotland in which the need for language studies increased. Rhetoric and literature have traditionally been taught as part of philosophy studies . During this period, later known as the Scottish Enlightenment , people like John Stevenson, William Cleghorn, Adam Smith and Robert Watson paved the way for a new form. The appointments of Hugh Blair as Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres resulted from this teaching approach.

In 1759, with the approval of the Senatus Academius and the town council responsible for the university, Hugh Blair began to give lectures on rhetoric and 'Belle Letters'. However, neither the university nor the town council paid any money for it. The courses turned out to be so popular that influential patrons turned to George III. who appointed the professorship to the Regius Professorship in 1762 and provided funds for the professor. The Edinburgh faculty is the oldest English faculty in the world. The approach was later widely adopted in other universities.

owner

Surname name suffix from to annotation
Hugh Blair 1762 1784 The cleric Blair was so popular with his innovative teaching approach that the king honored the professorship with his patronage. At the same time, Blair introduced important changes in the method of investigation, for example the analytical separation between grammar and rhetoric.
William Greenfield 1784 1798 Greenfield was Blair's ideal successor. He previously taught for Blair, and used Blair's schemes with some extensions. He was already promoted to dean and was dismissed from all offices for homosexual acts. He left Scotland, published Essays on the Sources of Pleasures Received from Literary Compositions anonymously in 1809 and died in England in 1827.

Greenfield is often not mentioned in enumerations and Blair is mentioned as Regius Professor from 1762 to 1801.

Hugh Blair 1798 1801 After Greenfield's dismissal, Blair resumed lecturing until his death.
Andrew Brown 1801 1835 Brown was elected after Walter Scott turned down the position. His appointment was unsuccessful because he was more interested in North American history than in literary studies. Under Brown, the subject was severely neglected.
George Moir 1835 1840 Moir had made a name for himself as a literary critic and was therefore appointed to the chair. In 1840 he retired from the chair to become Sheriff of Ross. As a result, his activities as a literary critic also decreased.
1840 1865 Gap in the documented data: The absence of an entry only means that there is no documented data for this period. It cannot be deduced from this that the chair was not occupied during this time.
David Mather Masson Esq., LL.D. 1865 1895 In 1893, Masson was also appointed royal historiographer.
George Saintsbury Esq., MA 1895 1915
Herbert John Clifford Grierson Esq., MA, LL.D. 1915 1935
John Dover Wilson MA, Litt.D., FBA, 1936 1945 Wilson was considered the most important Shakespeare expert of his time. He retired from the professorship in 1945 in order to devote all of his time to a book on Shakespear's work.
William Lindsay Renwick 1945 1959
John Everett Butt Esq., MA, B.Litt. 1959 1967
Harold Jenkins 1967 1971 Like Dover Wilson before him, Jenkins withdrew prematurely from the professorship in order to publish his key work on Hamlet, also like this one.
Alistair David Shaw Fowler CBE 1972 1984
1984 1991 vacant
Charles Ian Edward Donaldson BA, BLitt, MA, FBA, FRSE, FAHA 1991 1995
1995 2000 Gap in the documented data: The absence of an entry only means that there is no documented data for this period. It cannot be deduced from this that the chair was not occupied during this time.
John Frow BA, MA, Ph.D .; FAHA 2000 2004 Frow moved as Darnell Professor of English from the University of Queensland to Edinburgh and left the chair in 2004 to teach at the University of Melbourne .
Oct 1, 2004 2007 vacant
Laura Marcus FBA 2007 2010 Marcus moved to the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.
Greg Walker BA, Ph.D .; FRSE 2010 Walker's academic career led from a professorship at the University of Leicester to the Masson Professor of English in Edinburgh, from where he moved to the Regius Professorship. His specialty is the literature of the early Tudor period, especially the time of Henry VIII.

literature

  • Henry William Meikle: The Chair of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres in the University of Edinburgh . In: University of Edinburgh Journal , 13 (Autumn 1945), Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, pp. 89-103.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Michael G. Moran: Eighteenth-century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, p. 23 ff.
  2. ^ Notice about the change of name of the chair by the Scottish Universities Commission. In: Edinburgh Gazette , December 17, 1861, pp. 1661–1662.
  3. ↑ a b c Paul G. Batora: The formation of the Regius Chair of rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the university of Edinburgh , Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 75, Issue 1, 1989; doi: 10.1080 / 00335638909383861 .
  4. ^ A b Robert Crawford, The Scottish Invention of English Literature , Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  5. ↑ Renata Jermołowicz: Remarks on Adam Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ; Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 7 (20), 2004
  6. ↑ a b c d e James L. Golden, Edward PJ Corbett: The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately . Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale / Edwardsville 1968, ISBN 0-8093-1602-1 , p. 24.
  7. ↑ Arthur N. Applebee: Tradition and Reform in the Teaching of English: a History (PDF; 11.6 MB) National Council of Teachers of English, 1974, Urbana, Illinois. Pages 1–15.
  8. ^ A b c Sarah Sloane: Professor William Greenfield Sad Successor to Professor Hugh Blair: A Study of the Second Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh, 1784-1798 ; in Lynee Lewis Gaillet, Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences Gaillet; Pages 95-109.
  9. ↑ a b c Alexandra Lawrie: The Beginnings of University English: Extramural Study, 1885-1910 ; Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 163.
  10. ↑ a b c d Papers of Professor Andrew Brown on the University of Edinburgh website; accessed on January 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ a b c d Brian Hillyard: Moir, George (1800-1870), literary critic and lawyer. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004 doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 18891
  12. ^ A b Communication on the appointment of George Saintsbury as "Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature". In: London Gazette , October 4, 1895.
  13. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of David Masson as "Historiographer" of the Queen. In: London Gazette , March 7, 1893.
  14. ↑ The people who helped shape Edinburgh Libraries: David Mather Masson edinburghcitylibraries, 2014, published on Wordpress; accessed on January 30, 2016.
  15. ^ A b Communication on the appointment of Herbert John Clifford Grierson as "Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature". In: London Gazette , September 17, 1915.
  16. ↑ a b c d Obituary: Professor Dover Wilson, expert on Shakespeare. In: The Glasgow Herald , January 17, 1969:; accessed on January 30, 2016.
  17. ↑ a b Special Collections of the University of Aberdeen , Ref. MS 2478: Sir Herbert JC Grierson, literary scholar: papers on the University of Aberdeen website; accessed on January 30, 2016.
  18. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of William Lindsay Renwick (PDF) as "Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Language and Literature". In: London Gazette , September 28, 1945.
  19. ^ Cary DiPietro: Bradley, Greg, Folger: Great Shakespeareans :, Volume 9 , 2014, p. 189, endnote 112.
  20. ^ A b Communication on the appointment of John Everett Butt as "Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature". In: Edinburgh Gazette , March 20, 1959.
  21. ↑ Maynard Mack, Ian Gregor: Imagined worlds: essays on some English novels and novelists in honor of John Butt . Methuen, 1968, pp. I-XXVI.
  22. ^ University of Edinburgh Journal, Volume 19 ; University of Edinburgh , Graduates' Association, 1960, 149.
  23. ↑ a b EAJ Honigmann: Harold Jenkins 1909-2000. (PDF) The British Academy, 2001.
  24. ↑ Archives in London and the M25 Areas: Harold Jenkins (1909–2000) (PDF; 975 kB) aim25.ac.uk; accessed on February 7, 2016.
  25. ^ Sarah Palmer: Catalog of the Archives of Harold Jenkins (1909-2000) . ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.qmul.ac.uk
  26. ↑ a b c Communication on the appointment of Charles Ian Edward Donaldson as "Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature". In: Edinburgh Gazette , June 1, 1990.
  27. ↑ British Academy Fellows FOWLER, Professor Alastair, CBE ( Memento of the original dated January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; on the British Academy website; accessed on January 30, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britac.ac.uk
  28. ^ Profile of Professor Ian Donaldson on the University of Melbourne website; accessed on January 29, 2016.
  29. ↑ Profile of Donaldson, Ian, FBA FRSE FAHA ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Australian Academy of the Humanities website; accessed on February 7, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.humanities.org.au
  30. ↑ a b Presentation of Professor John Frow on the University of Sydney website; accessed on January 29, 2016.
  31. ↑ a b Announcement of the appointment of Laura Marcus as “Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature”. In: London Gazette , May 4, 2007.
  32. ↑ a b Profile of Laura Marcus on the University of Oxford's New College website, accessed January 27, 2016.
  33. ^ Announcement on the appointment of Greg Walker as Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. In: London Gazette , July 2, 2010.
  34. ^ Profile of Greg Walker of the School of Literatures, Languages ​​and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, accessed January 27, 2015.
  35. ^ Announcement about the appointment of Greg Walker as "Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature" at the University of Edinburgh; accessed on January 27, 2016.
  36. ^ A b Profile of Greg Walker on the University of Edinburgh website; Retrieved April 7, 2017.