David Daiches A Celebration of His Life and Work

David Daiches (1912-2005) was the first Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His distinguished career over more than half a century encompassed Universities on both sides of the Atlantic. His publications were prolific, extending to over one hundred books, three hundred articles, media and television, plus recordings. This Celebration of His Life and Work will include essays on his literary achievements in the areas of Scottish Literature, the Novel, Poetry and New/Historical Criticism and the American connection, and the academic as populariser, by distinguished scholars and critics. The book will appeal to historians of twentieth century literary and cultural criticism, the History of twentieth-century Universities, students of Scottish and American Literature, and the relationship between the academic and journalism in the twentieth century.

William Baker is presidential Research Professor, Department of English/University Libraries, Northern Illinois University. He co-edits The Year's Work in English Studies (OUP). Michael Lister is a graduate of the University of Stirling. Involved in many projects and campaigns to promote the arts in Scotland, he also writes for a number of literary magazines, including textualities.net and the Times Literary Supplement. He is Reviews Editor of the Edinburgh Review.