Professor Alastair Fowler FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1974
Year of birth
1930
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Literature

Last post

Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Virginia Professor of English

1990 - 1997

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1972 - 1984

Brasenose College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English Literature

1962 - 1971

University of Virginia Professor of English

Publications

Paradise lost (1998)

A history of English literature (1987)

Kinds of literature (1982)

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