When the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies was launched at Glasgow University in 1997, it underlined Hook’s pioneering role in American Studies in Britain and the significance of his writings on the modern American novelist, including two books on F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hook’s first major publication, however, was Scotland and America (1975), tracing Scottish influences on early American culture, and he was equally prominent in the field of Scottish Literature, producing modern editions of two Walter Scott novels, editing Volume 2, 1660–1800, of the four-volume AUP History of Scottish Literature (1987), and being appointed President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (1990–92).
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