Paul Edwards (literary scholar)
Paul Geoffrey Edwards (31 July 1926 – 10 May 1992) was a wide-ranging literary scholar at the University of Edinburgh, appreciated for his "adventurous and unorthodox teaching".[1]
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Life
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Edwards joined the staff of Edinburgh University in 1963.
At the University of Edinburgh Edwards introduced a final year Honours option on "Caribbean and West African Literature", which he taught with Kenneth Ramchand.[3] He became Reader in English Literature,[7] and was subsequently awarded a personal chair as professor of English and African Literature at Edinburgh.[5]
He died 10 May 1992.[6] In March 1994 a conference entitled "Africans and Caribbeans in Britain: Writing, History, and Society" was held in his memory at Edinburgh's Centre of African Studies.[8] A collection of essays in his memory appeared in 1998.[9]
Works
- (ed.) West African Narrative: an anthology for schools, 1963.
- (ed.) Modern African Narrative: an anthology, 1966.
- (ed.) Through African Eyes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966
- (ed.) Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African by African Writers Series10.
- (ed.) A Ballad Book for Africa, London: Faber, 1968.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Gautrek's Saga, and other medieval tales, London: University of London Press, 1968.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Arrow-Odd: a medieval novel, New York: New York University Press, 1970
- (with Hermann Pálsson) Legendary Fiction in Medieval Iceland, Reykjavík: University of Iceland, 1970
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Hrolf Gautreksson, a Viking romance, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) The Book of Settlements; Landnámabók. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1972
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Eyrbyggja Saga, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson. Harmondworth: Penguin Books, 1976.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Orkneyinga Saga: the history of the Earls of Orkney, London: Hogarth Press, 1978.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Göngu-Hrólfs Saga, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 1980.
- Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade, 1983.
- (with David Dabydeen) "Black writers of the 18th and 19th centuries", in David Dabydeen (ed.), The Black Presence in English Literature, 1985, pp. 50–67.
- "Three West African Writers of the 1780s", in Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds, The Slave's Narrative, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Seven Viking Romances, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Knytlinga Saga: the history of the kings of Denmark, Odense: Odense University Press, 1986.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Magnus' Saga: the life of St Magnus, Earl of Orkney, 1075–1116, Oxford: Perpetua, 1987.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) Vikings in Russia: Yngvar's saga and Eymund's saga, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
- (ed. with David Dabydeen) Black Writers in Britain: 1760–1830, 1991.
- (ed. with Polly Rewt) The letters of Ignatius Sancho by University of Edinburgh Press, 1994.
References
- ^ a b 'In Memoriam: Paul Edwards', ALA Bulletin, Vol. 35, p. 22.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8264-4704-3. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8264-2703-8. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ Evans, Harold (2009). "My Paper Chase". Castellum (62): 44. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-14-044474-2. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ a b University of Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 35 (1992), p.262
- ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File
- ISBN 978-0-252-06780-8. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ Paul Hullah, ed., Romanticism and Wild Places: Essays In Memory of Paul Edwards, Edinburgh: Quadriga, 1998.
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