Robert Irvine
Reader in Scottish Literature

- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3605
- Email: R.P.Irvine@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.20
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Dr Irvine's semester 1 2023-24 office hours are Wednesday 10-12.
Background
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.
Postgraduate teaching
My ongoing commitment in this area is to organising and teaching on our taught MSc programme, 'Literature and Society 1688-1900'. I am always happy to give advice on PhD proposals in my area of interest: see under 'Research'.
Research summary
Dr Irvine’s doctoral thesis 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 lie in the relation between literature (particularly fiction) and political ideas (particularly ‘liberal’ ones, broadly conceived) from the late seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth; and especially in Scottish writers in this period.
Dr Irvine welcomes research proposals in any area that overlaps with the above.
Project activity
Dr Irvine is in the early stages of two scholarly editions: of The Lord of the Isles (1815) by Walter Scott, for the new AHRC-funded Edinburgh Edition of Scott's Poetry; and of The Member and The Radical (both 1832) by John Galt, for the Edinburgh University Press edition of Galt's works
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Robert Louis Stevenson
(11 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
'Tam o' Shanter' - Storytelling and antiquarianism
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Narrative strategy and rebellion in Scott and Lermontov: The Black Dwarf and Vadim
(19 pages)
In:
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 13, pp. 1-19
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
(440 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Presbyterianism, “Scottish Literature” and John Galt’s Annals of the Parish
(8 pages)
In:
Studies in Scottish Literature, vol. 45, pp. 15-22
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
John Galt, Annals of the Parish
(224 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Review of The Genius of Scotland: the Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785–1834 by Corey E. Andrews
In:
The Bottle Imp
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Canada, class, and colonization in John Galt's Bogle Corbet
(18 pages)
In:
Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 46, pp. 259-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.46.2016.0259
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The truth about 'Auld Lang Syne'
Short essay › Other contribution (Published) -
Review of Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment by Matthew Wickman
In:
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 8, pp. 157-159
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published)