Elected 1992
Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.
Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)
English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing
