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Professor Colin Nicholson
Email Address: C.Nicholson@ed.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 0131 650 3614
Office: Room 6.18, David Hume Tower
Office hours:
Semester One - ON LEAVE
Professor of Eighteenth Century and Modern Literature
With a BA from Leeds University, Colin Nicholson came to Edinburgh in 1969 on a one-year temporary contract and has taught in the Department ever since. Besides his work in the eighteenth century, he has published widely in Scottish, Canadian and Postcolonial areas. He has edited several collections of essays, including Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature (Singapore SUP, 1984); Alexander Pope: Essays for the Tercentenary (Aberdeen: AUP, 1988); Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1990); Iain Crichton Smith: New Critical Essays (Edinburgh: EUP 1992); Cinema and Fiction: New Modes of Adapting, 1950-1990 (Edinburgh: EUP, 1992 and Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity (London: Macmillan, 1994). During the 1990s he edited the British Journal of Canadian Studies.
His main areas of research are in the political and economic contexts of eighteenth-century British Literature, and the politics of reading Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry,Canadian Literature, and Postcolonial Poetry.He would also welcome candidates wishing to research Canadian literary topics.
- Poem, Purpose and Place: Shaping Identity in Contemporary Scottish Verse (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992)
- Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: CUP, 1994).
- Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity
(Manchester: MUP, 2002)
- ‘Re-Sourcing the Historical Present: A Post-modern Turn in Alistair MacLeod’s Short Fiction’, in Alistair MacLeod : Essays on His Works, ed. I. Guildford (Toronto: Guernica, 2001), pp. 95-111
- ‘“Of Eminent Significancy”: Alan Ramsay’s “British” Poetics and Post-Union Constructions of Cultural Space’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2002) vol. 25, pp. 203-16.
- The Mercantile Bard’ in Alexander Pope: a Poet on the Margins and in the Centre, Studies in the Literary Imagination, (2005) 38: 1, 77–94.
- ‘Towards a Scottish Theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead’, The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Literature (2007), ed. Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007), pp. 159–66.
- ‘Empire of Venery: Tony Harrison’s African Poems’, Focus (Hungary: University of Pécs, 2004), pp. 119-35.
- ‘Decline and Fall: The Fate of Gaeldom in Postcolonial Space’, in Dialogues with Traditions in Canadian Literature, eds., A. Brannach-Kallas & P. Sadkowski (Poland: Toruń, 2005), pp. 41-53
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