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Peter Sabor

Peter Sabor
Contact Information
Email address: 
peter.sabor [at] mcgill.ca
Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
Restoration
18th-Century
Area(s): 
Archives & Bibliography
Book History
Fiction
History & Theory of the Novel
Status: 
Retired
Areas of interest: 

Restoration and eighteenth-century literature; the novel; textual editing

Current research: 

Co- general editor of a twenty-four volume edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, under contract with CUP; general editor of a six-volume edition of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney, under contract with OUP.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (London)
M.A. (Queen’s)
M.A. (Cambridge)
B.A. (Cambridge)

Selected publications: 

Books and Edited Volumes

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland, ed. with Richard Terry and Helen Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

"The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland " edited by Peter Sabor, Richard Terry et Helen Williams

The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Volume II - 1791-1840), ed. (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Book cover of "The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney" edited by Peter Sabor

Samuel Richardson in Context, ed. with Betty A. Schellenberg (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Book cover of "Samuel Richardson in Context" edited by Peter Sabor and Betty A. Schellenberg

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin, 3 vols., ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Book cover of "The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin, 3 vols." edited by Peter Sabor

The Cambridge Companion to 'Emma', ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

"The Cambridge Companion to 'Emma'" edited by Peter Sabor

Jane Austen's Manuscript Works, ed. with Linda Bree and Janet Todd (Broadview Press, 2012).

Book cover of "Jane Austen's Manuscript Works" edited by Peter Sabor, Linda Bree and Janet Todd

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century, ed. with Fiona Ritchie (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Book cover of "Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century" edited by Peter Sabor and Fiona Ritchie

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Volume 1 - 1786), ed. (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Book cover of "The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney" (Volume 1 - 1786) edited by Peter Sabor

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century, ed. with Paul Yachnin (Ashgate, 2008).

Book cover of "Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century" edited by Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin

The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Cover of book "The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney" edited by Peter Sabor

Jane Austen's Juvenilia, in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Book cover of Jane Austen's Juvenilia editing by Peter Sabor

Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland, co-author with Thomas Keymer (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Book cover of "Pamela in the Marketplace" by Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor

Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant, ed. with Nicole Côté (Peter Lang, 2002).

The Pamela Controversy: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, ed. with Thomas Keymer, 6 vols. (Pickering & Chatto, 2001).

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney, ed. with Stewart Cooke and Geoffrey Sill, 2 vols. (Pickering & Chatto, 1995).

Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays, ed. with Margaret Anne Doody (CUP, 1989).

Horace Walpole: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1987).

Horace Walpole: A Reference Guide (G.K. Hall, 1984).

Editions of works by Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, John Cleland, Horace Walpole, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Thomas Carlyle for Penguin, University Press of Kentucky, Pickering & Chatto, Broadview, Juvenilia Press, and OUP.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Royal Society of Canada, Fellow since 2008
  • Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, January-March 2024
  • Visiting Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford, January-March 2022
  • Visiting Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, January-March 2020
  • Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, January-March 2019
  • Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford, January-March 2016
  • Traveling Lecturer, Jane Austen Society of North America, 2016-2018
  • Donald and Mary Hyde Fellow, Houghton Library, Harvard University, October 2015
  • Visiting Fellow, Chawton House Library, August 2015
  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2020-2026; 2012-2017
  • Canada Research Chair, 2017-2024, 2010-2017, 2003-2010
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grants, 2009-2012, 2006-2009, 2002-2005, 1999-2002, 1996-1999
  • Marjorie Wynne Fellow, Beinecke Library, Yale University, May 2008
Taught previously at: 

Laval University
Queen’s University
University of Calgary

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