Department of English Language and Literature
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Patrick Scott
Title: | Distinguished Professor Emeritus |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | scottp@mailbox.sc.edu |
Resources: | Personal Website |
Education
PhD, University of Edinburgh, 1976
Areas of Specialization
• Scottish Literature
• Victorian Literature
• History of the Book, Bibliography, Textual Editing
• Rhetoric, History of English Studies
• African literature
Professional Accolades
• Elected Honorary Fellow, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2015
• Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 2013-
• Honorary Life Member, Thomas Cooper Society, 2011
• Honorary Member, Burns Club of Atlanta, 2010-
• Lucy Hampton Bostick Award, 2008
• Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina, 2004
• Leab Award (ALA/ACRL), 1999
Current Research Projects
Editor, Studies in Scottish Literature, with Tony Jarrells, since 2012 (from vol. 37)
See: http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/
Selected Publications
• co-ed., Poems by a Lady, by Helen Craik, edited from the Beinecke Manuscript (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2023).
• advisory ed., Robert Burns, 1759-1796: Literary Criticism 1400-1800, vol 311 (Gale, 2023).
• ed., Robert Louis Stevenson: A Documentary Volume (Gale, 2021)
• ed., The Ghost at the Feast: Religion and Scottish Literary Criticism (Scottish Literature Series, 2020)
• advisory ed., "Robert Burns, 1759-1796," in Poetry Criticism, vol 218 (Gale, 2019), 1-237.
• ed., Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume (Gale, 2018)
• co-ed. Selected Essays on Robert Burns, by G. Ross Roy (Scottish Literature Series, 2018)
• co-auth., The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census (Scottish Literature Series, 2017)
• co-ed, The Complete Poems of Gavin Turnbull Online (Centre for Digital Humanities, 2015)
• ed., The Prayer of Holy Willie, A Canting, hypocritical, Kirk Elder, by Robert Burns (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 2015)
• ed., A Bard Unkend: Selected Poems in the Scottish Dialect, by Gavin Turnbull (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 2015)
• co-ed,, Robert Burns & Friends (USC Libraries, 2012)
• ed., The City of the Jugglers, by William North (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2008)
• ed., Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Signet/NAL, 2008, 7th printing 2012; new ed, 2016)
• text. ed., Amours de Voyage, by A.H.Clough (Barbarian Press, 2007)
• Duncan Glen and Akros: forty years of a Scottish press (Thomas Cooper Library, 2002)
• Hemingway and the Thirties: An Exhibition from the Speiser & Easterling-Hallman Collection
(Thomas Cooper Library, 2001)
• The Heart of a Great University: Charting Two Hundred Years of USC Libraries (Thomas Cooper Library, 2001)
• John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Culture: An Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library, 2000)
• 'The Biographical Part of Literature': An Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library, 1998)
• The Great War: An Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library, 1997)
• co-auth., Thomas Carlyle (1795-1882): A Bicentenary Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library, 1995)
• Alfred Tennyson (1808-1892): An Exhibition (Division of Special Libraries, 1992)
• assoc. ed., Language and Literature of Early Scotland (CEMRS, 1992)
• co-ed., Culture and Education in Victorian England (Bucknell Univ. Press, 1990)
• ed., "Victorians on Rhetoric and Prose Style," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 57 (Gale, 1987), 375-509.
• ed,, The Origin of Species, by Charles, Lord Neaves (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 1986)
• The Early Editions of Arthur Hugh Clough (Garland, 1977)
• ed,, The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, by A.H.Clough (Univ. of Queensland Press, 1976)
• ed,, Amours de Voyage, by A.H.Clough (Univ. of Queensland Press, 1974)
• ed,, Victorian Poetry, 1830-1870 (Longman, 1971; 4th printing, 1976)
• Tennyson’s Enoch Arden: A Victorian Best-Seller (Tennyson Society, 1970)
See also: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/
Other Information
Director, Rare Books & Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries, 1996-2011