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Dr Robert P. Irvine
Email Address: r.p.irvine@ed.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 0131 650 3605
Office: 7.05 David Hume Tower
Office hours: Semester Two: Tuesday 2 - 3 (for Undergraduates); Tuesday 3 - 4 (for Postgraduates)
Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Literature
Bob Irvine holds an Honours MA in English and Philosophy from the University of Aberdeen, and a PhD from Edinburgh. He taught at Brunel University in London before returning to his current post in 1999.
Bob’s PhD was on gender and genre in the novels of Walter Scott, looking at Scott’s creative engagement, in his fiction, with the female-authored domestic novel of his time. His current interests might be described as ‘the politics of genre in the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly by Scottish writers’. However, this formulation makes it sound as if he has read a lot of books that, as yet, he has not. It also excludes other books that he has read and is very interested in, including a lot of eighteenth-century poetry. His current project is a book on liberalism, imperialism, and adventure fiction, from John Locke and Daniel Defoe to late nineteenth-century British Idealism and John Buchan.
Dr Irvine welcomes research proposals in any area that overlaps with the above, but particularly in fiction and ideas from 1688 to 1832, and nineteenth-century adventure stories (Marryat, Ballantyne, Henty, Haggard, and so on).
- >Enlightenment and Romance: Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott(Bern: Peter Lang, 2000)
- (Edited) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2002)
- Jane Austen. Routledge Guides to Literature series(London: Routledge, 2005)
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