Andrew Taylor
Senior Lecturer

- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4584
- Email: Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.28
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office hour: Tuesdays 3-4pm
Research summary
Dr Taylor specialises in nineteenth-century North American literature and intellectual history, and has an interest in the intersection of historiography and contemporary American fiction.
Project activity
He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (2002), Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Experience (2010), and co-author of Thomas Pynchon (2013).
He has written several articles on American writing and culture, and is the co-editor of: The Afterlife of John Brown (2005), Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader (2007), Stanley Cavell: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism (2012), and Stanley Cavell, Literature and Film: The Idea of America (2013).
He is currently working on an edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Wrecker (for Edinburgh University Press). He is also co-editing a book for Cambridge University Press on the literary 1880s
Dr Taylor is also co-editor of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures, published by Edinburgh University Press:
Current project grants
He is the PI on a five-year (2016-21) Leverhulme Trust funded project, "The Cantos Project", which is generating a new, digital edition of Ezra Pound's Cantos - http://thecantosproject.ed.ac.uk/index.php
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Introduction: Form and medium
(7 pages)
In:
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 55, pp. 381-387
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-10007420
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Form and Medium
In:
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 55
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Special issue (Published) -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written By Himself
(640 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920: An Anthology
(808 pages)
Research output: › Anthology (Published) -
Reading resistances in Ralph Waldo Emerson and José Martí
(22 pages)
In:
Journal of American Studies, vol. N/A, pp. 1-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875820001097
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Euclid preparation: V. Predicted yield of redshift 7
(19 pages)
In:
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 631
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936427
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Henry James, vulgarity and transatlantic moderation
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316855546.009
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s
(260 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316855546
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Introduction: "Knowledge made for cutting"
(14 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316855546.001
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter
(246 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203758298
Research output: › Book (Published)