Paul Edwards (literary scholar)

Paul Geoffrey Edwards (31 July 1926 – 10 May 1992) was a wide-ranging literary scholar at the University of Edinburgh, appreciated for his "adventurous and unorthodox teaching".[1]

As a scholar of black history and literature, Edwards's work on Olaudah Equiano "helped to establish Equiano as a key figure in African and black literature in general."[2] Edwards also wrote on Romanticism, and collaborated with Hermann Pálsson in translations of the Icelandic sagas and other books on the literature of medieval Iceland.

  1. ^ 'In Memoriam: Paul Edwards', ALA Bulletin, Vol. 35, p. 22.
  2. ^ James Walvin (2000). African's Life, 1745–1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-8264-4704-3. Retrieved 16 October 2012.