Richard Alexander Arnold is the Eminent Professor and Chair of English at Alfaisal University

Alfaisal University

Alfaisal University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is the second co-educational university in Saudi Arabia after KAUST...

 and an author and editor specializing in rhetoric

Rhetoric

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, English literature

English literature

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, Canadian literature

Canadian literature

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, and Medieval literature

Medieval literature

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 (focusing on Chaucer, John Milton

John Milton

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, William Blake

William Blake

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, Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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, and Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

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).

Arnold received his B.A. with a double major in English and physics from McMaster University

McMaster University

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, his M.A. in English Literature from McMaster University, and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and English Literature from University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, Scotland, where he held the United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholarship

Commonwealth Scholarship

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Arnold is the author and editor of several books as well as numerous articles on 18th-century literature, 19th-century studies, editorial theory, cultural studies, and Medieval and Canadian literature. He is the recipient of distinguished fellowships, a medal for distinguished teaching, and appointments to review and adjudicate for major publishers worldwide. He has researched and taught in Canada, Great Britain, Middle East

Middle East

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 and Southeast Asia.

Books

Books written or edited by Richard Arnold include:

• Crystalline Gems of Islamic Jurisprudence (Riyadh: Ministry of Islamic Affairs, 2009)
• Logic of the Fall: Right Reason and [Im]pure Reason in Milton’s "Paradise Lost" (New York, 2006)
• English Hymns of the Nineteenth Century (New York, 2005)
• The English Hymn: Studies in a Genre (New York, 1995)
• English Hymns of the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1992)