Professor Stefan Collini re-examines the history of the activity of literary criticism and discipline of English Literature. In the 250 years since the founding of the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres at Edinburgh University, the activity of literary criticism and discipline of English...

Professor William Christie (University of Sydney) and Dr Alan Gillis (The University of Edinburgh) discuss ‘The Edinburgh Review: Then and Now’. Recorded 16 March 2012. Audio version.

Please join us for the Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC) Annual Lecture: Stevenson Among the Psychologists Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College, University of London) explores Stevenson's dialogue with Victorian psychology, from the phrenological Edinburgh of the 1820s and...