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
Semester 1 2018-19 office hours are Tuesday 10-11 (postgraduates) and Tuesday 11-12 (undergraduates). In academic year 2018-19 I will be on research leave in semester 2 and not keeping office hours.
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. Questions of gender and class and the interrelation of those two categories remain a recurring concern.
Dr Irvine welcomes research proposals in any area that overlaps with the above.
Research activities
Project activity
Dr Irvine is currently updating his edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for Broadview Press, and working on an edition of John Galt's Annals of the Parish (1821), one of the first volumes of a new Edinburgh University Press edition of selected work by Galt; both of these should be published in the course of 2019.
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Review of The Genius of Scotland: the Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785–1834 by Corey E. Andrews
In:
The Bottle Imp, no. 21
Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Canada, class and colonization in John Galt's Bogle Corbet
In:
The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 46, pp. 259-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.46.2016.0259
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The truth about 'Auld Lang Syne'
(Published) -
Review of Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown and David Shuttleton, eds., Before Blackwood’s: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015
In:
BARS Review, vol. 47, pp. 1-2
Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Review of Literature After Euclid : The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment by Matthew Wickman
In:
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 157-159
Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Burns's Politics 'in another view' : Late 1792/early 1793
(31 pages)
In:
Studies in Scottish Literature, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 143-173
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
R. L. Stevenson, Prince Otto
Book/Report › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Reading /Waverley/ in 2014
(Published) -
'A cargo of songs': Robert Burns, the Hastie Manuscript and The Scots Musical Museum
(Published) -
Robert Burns: a Career in Verse
(Published)