photograph by Patrick Hinely

Edward Adams, Associate Professor

Department of English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8764

Education

B.A., Amherst College
M.A. in Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Yale University

Research Interests

History and fiction; novel and epic; high culture and popular culture

Teaching

English 105—Composition and Literature
English 232—The Novel
English 341—Romantic Poetry and Prose
English 345—Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
English 347—Victorian Prose: History and Self in the 19th C.
English 348—Victorian Poetry

Seminar and Capstone Topics

Alfred Hitchcock
Walter Scott
Byron
Epic from Homer to Spielberg
Adaptation and its Discontents
Comfort Fiction

Selected Publications

"Macaulay's History of England and the Dilemmas of Liberal Epic." Nineteenth-Century Prose 33/2 (Fall 2006).

"Epic and Novel." The Encyclopedia of the Novel, v. 1, ed. Paul Schellinger (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998): 381-4.

Work in Progress

Liberal Epic and the Rhetoric of Victorian History
The School of Gibbon: Epic History and the Age of the Novel

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