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Leask has assembled an important set of documents and provided rich descriptive contexts for understanding them. Kathryn Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement

Here the editor, a highly experienced scholar and critic, finds just the right balance between the antiquarian rigour needed to clean up the often dilapidated, altered, or messy archival materials, and the critical storytelling required to bring them to life. ... this painstakingly prepared volume provides ample new material for scholars. * Daniel Cook, The Review of English Studies * Leask has assembled an important set of documents and provided rich descriptive contexts for understanding them. * Kathryn Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement * The materials in Professor Leask's volume make a bold revisionary introduction to this major new edition ... Leask has assembled an important set of documents and provided rich descriptive contexts for understanding them. * Kathryn Sutherland, The Times Literary Supplement *

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Nigel Leask was appointed to Glasgow's Regius Chair of English Language and Literature in 2004, and is currently Head of the School of Critical Studies. He was previously Reader in Romantic Literature in the English Faculty at Cambridge University. He has published widely in the area of Romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, and travel writing, as well as Scottish literature and thought 1750-1850. His most recent book, Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2010) won the Saltire Prize for the best Scottish Research Book of 2010. He has also taught at the universities of Bologna and the UNAM, Mexico City. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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