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Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an internationally recognised scholar who has published widely on British and especially Scottish romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, travel writing and 'improvement'. His Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland won the Saltire Prize for the best research monograph in 2010. his edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscelaneous Prose, the first volume of the AHRC funded Oxford Edition of Robert Burns's Writings, was published in 2014. He was CI of the AHRC funded 'Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish ...more

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British Romantic Writers an...

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Curiosity and the Aesthetic...

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Robert Burns and Pastoral: ...

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Stepping Westward

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The Oxford Edition of the W...

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Stepping Westward: Writing ...

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The Politics of Imagination...

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Philosophical Vagabonds: Pe...

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