The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the
University of Edinburgh was established in 1762 (as the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres). It is arguably the first professorship of English Literature established anywhere in the world. Its first holder was Professor
Hugh Blair.
List of Regius Professors of Rhetoric and English Literature
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abcdefWinifred Bryan Horner, Nineteenth-Century Scottish Rhetoric: The American Connection (Carbondale and Edwardsville:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1993), pp. 60–62.
The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the
University of Edinburgh was established in 1762 (as the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres). It is arguably the first professorship of English Literature established anywhere in the world. Its first holder was Professor
Hugh Blair.
List of Regius Professors of Rhetoric and English Literature
^
abcdefWinifred Bryan Horner, Nineteenth-Century Scottish Rhetoric: The American Connection (Carbondale and Edwardsville:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1993), pp. 60–62.