Robert James Merrett

Robert J. Merrett, professor emeritus of English at the University of Alberta, has explored literary history as scholar, author, and editor throughout his forty-five-year teaching career. He has served on the executive boards of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest. In 2013, he was awarded honorary lifetime membership in the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies....See more

Robert J. Merrett, professor emeritus of English at the University of Alberta, has explored literary history as scholar, author, and editor throughout his forty-five-year teaching career. He has served on the executive boards of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest. In 2013, he was awarded honorary lifetime membership in the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Throughout his career, Professor Merrett has won numerous academic awards to support his research and writing, and over the course of his career, he has published extensively. A few of his publications include Imperial Paradoxes: Training the Senses and Tasting the Eighteenth Century; Daniel Defoe: Contrarian; Presenting the Past: Philosophical Irony and the Rhetoric of Double Vision from Bishop Butler to T.S. Eliot; and Daniel Defoe's Moral and Rhetorical Ideas. Robert J. Merrett lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. See less