Richard Alexander Arnold

Richard Alexander Arnold is a professor of English at the private Alfaisal University in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia .

Life

Arnold received a Ph.D. in public speaking and English literature from the University of Edinburgh , where he received the British Commonwealth Fellowship . He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Physics from McMaster University.

As a writer and editor , he specializes in rhetoric , English literature , Canadian literature and medieval literature. He is particularly concerned with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer , John Milton , William Blake , Samuel Johnson and Alexander Pope . Arnold is the author and editor of several books and articles on eighteenth century literature, nineteenth century studies, editorial theory, cultural studies, and medieval and Canadian literature. He has taught in Canada, the UK, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Logic of the Fall. Right Reason and [Im] pure Reason in Milton’s " Paradise Lost " . Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8204-8176-9 .
The English Hymn. Studies in a Genre. Peter Lang Verlag, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8204-2485-4 .

Mohammad ben Ali Ash-Showkani: Crystalline Gems of Islamic Jurisprudence. Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Riyadh 2009.
English Hymns of the Nineteenth Century. At anthology . Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8204-6942-4 .
English Hymns of the Eighteenth Century. At anthology . Peter Lang Verlag, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8204-1674-6 .