Paul Edwards (literary scholar) Paul Geoffrey Edwards was a wide-ranging literary scholar at the University of Edinburgh , appreciated for his "adventurous and unorthodox teaching". 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." 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 .Life Paul Edwards, from Birmingham , studied English at Durham University and then Celtic and Icelandic at Cambridge University . He was the Editor of Palatinate during his time at Durham, working alongside Harold Evans . After completing his education he worked in West Africa for nine years, teaching literature in Ghana and Sierra Leone . The demand of his African students for African literature propelled his encounter with Equiano. Edwards joined the staff of Edinburgh University in 1963. Encouraged by Chinua Achebe , and helped by the historian of Sierra Leone Christopher Fyfe , in 1967 Edwards published an abridged edition of Equiano's autobiographical Narrative in Heinemann's African Writers Series , under the title Equiano's Travels . He subsequently published a facsimile version of the Narrative , and another edited version under the title The Life of Olaudah Equiano . At the University of Edinburgh Edwards introduced a final year Honours option on 'Caribbean and West African Literature', which he taught with Kenneth Ramchand . He became Reader in English Literature , and was subsequently awarded a personal chair as professor of English and African Literature at Edinburgh. He died 10 May 1992. In March 1994 a conference entitled 'Africans and Caribbeans in Britain: Writing, History, and Society' was held in his memory at Edinburgh's Centre of African Studies . A collection of essays in his memory appeared in 1998.Works West African narrative: an anthology for schools , 1963. Modern African narrative: an anthology , 1966. Through African eyes , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 1966 Equiano's travels : the interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano. London: Heinemann, 1967. African Writers Series 10. A ballad book for Africa , London: Faber, 1968. Gautrek's saga, and other medieval tales , London, University of London Press , 1968. Arrow-Odd: a medieval novel , New York: New York University Press , 1970 Legendary fiction in medieval Iceland , Reykjavík: University of Iceland , 1970 Hrolf Gautreksson, a Viking romance , Toronto: University of Toronto Press , 1972 The book of settlements; Landnámabók . Winnipeg: University of Manitoba , 1972 Eyrbyggja saga , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. Egil's saga by Snorri Sturluson . Harmondworth: Penguin, 1976. Orkneyinga saga : the history of the Earls of Orkney , London: Hogarth Press, 1978. Göngu-Hrólfs saga , Edinburgh: Canongate, 1980 Black personalities in the era of the slave trade , 1983. 'Black writers of the 18th and 19th centuries', in David Dabydeen The Black Presence in English Literature , 1985, pp. 50–67. 'Three West African Writers of the 1780s', in Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr ., eds., The Slave's Narrative , New York: Oxford University Press , 1985. Seven Viking Romances , Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. Knytlinga saga: the history of the kings of Denmark , Odense: Odense University Press , 1986. Magnus' saga: the life of St Magnus, Earl of Orkney , 1075-1116 , Oxford: Perpetua, 1987. Vikings in Russia : Yngvar's saga and Eymund's saga , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press , 1989 Black Writers in Britain: 1760-1830 , 1991. The letters of Ignatius Sancho by Ignatius Sancho, Edinbugh: University of Edinburgh Press , 1994.
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