Question: Peter Edgerly Firchow was an American literary scholar and educator, he wrote extensively on the relationship between  German literature and which class of  literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands?
Context: Maciej Ganczar (born January 19, 1976 in Łódź) is a Polish literary scholar specializing in German literature, literary translator, author of publications for foreign language teaching, also in the field of languages for special purposes. British literature is literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands.  Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature.  There is also some brief discussion of major figures who wrote in Scots, but the main discussion is in the various Scottish literature articles. Austrian literature is the literature written in Austria, which is mostly, but not exclusively, written in the German language.  Some scholars speak about Austrian literature in a strict sense from the year 1806 on when Francis II disbanded the Holy Roman Empire and established the Austrian Empire.  A more liberal definition incorporates all the literary works written on the territory of today's and historical Austria, especially when it comes to authors who wrote in German.  Thus, the seven volume history of Austrian literature by the editors Herbert Zeman and Fritz Peter Knapp is titled "History of the Literature in Austria".  The Austrian literature must be considered in close connection with German literature in general, and the borderline between proper German literature and the Austrian one is porous, due to rich and complex cultural exchanges. The Telegraph Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict.  c. 88.)  was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.  It extended the Telegraph Act 1868 to cover the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, thus allowing the British state to nationalise telegraph companies in these territories.  It gave orders to the Postmaster General to nationalize the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Company and the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company (the sale of which to the government had already been agreed in October 1868).  The Act further makes clear that the Submarine Telegraph Company, which had laid a commercial submarine telegraph cable across the English Channel in 1853, was not to be affected.  The Act was introduced partly due to the efforts of William Henry Preece, who was chief engineer of the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Company and a major shareholder, and had campaigned on behalf of the Channel Islands' inclusion in the Act of 1868. James F. Light was an American literary scholar, university vice president, and provost.  During his academic career, he helped revive the works of satirist Nathanael West, with the first book length critical study of his work, "Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study", (Northwestern Univ.  Press, 1961).  He was also the leading authority on John William De Forest, the early American realist whose work he critiqued in "John William De Forest" (Twayne Pub., 1965), and he wrote extensively on J. D. Salinger, Robert Penn Warren and others. George Guțu (born March 16, 1944 in Galați) is a Romanian philologist, teacher in the Department of German Language and Literature of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest.  He is also director of the Paul Celan Center for Research and Excellence and the Master programme "Intercultural Literary and Linguistic Communication Strategies" ("Strategii comunicaționale interculturale – literare și lingvistice"), initiated by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures together with other departments of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.  His academic activity is based on the history of German literature (Age of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, Classicism, Romanticism); German and Austrian contemporary literature; German literature from Romania, cultural inter-referentiality in Central and Southeast Europe, particularly in Bukovina, poetics, literary theory, translation, the history of German studies and guidance for PhD students.  His research domains are the history of German literature; comparative literature; German literature from Romania; cultural inter-referentiality; imagology; the history and aesthetics of reception; theory and practice of translation. In addition to English, literature has been written in a wide variety of other languages in Britain, that is the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey are not part of the United Kingdom, but are closely associated with it, being British Crown Dependencies).  This includes literature in Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Latin, Cornish, Anglo-Norman, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Manx, and Irish (but only in Northern Ireland after 1922).  Literature in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) is treated as English literature and literature in Scots as Scottish literature. David Martin Bevington (born May 13, 1931) is an American literary scholar.  He is Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967, as well as chair of Theatre and Performance Studies.  "One of the most learned and devoted of Shakespeareans," so called by Harold Bloom, he specializes in British drama of the Renaissance, and has edited and introduced the complete works of William Shakespeare in both the 29-volume, Bantam Classics paperback editions and the single-volume Longman edition.  Bevington remains the only living scholar to have personally edited Shakespeare's complete corpus. Peter Edgerly Firchow (1937–2008) was an American literary scholar and educator.  He wrote extensively on the relationship between British and German literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he was a leading scholar of the British writer Aldous Huxley.  He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota English Department from 1967 to 2008 and as director of the university's Comparative Literature program from 1972 to 1978. German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.  This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Belgium and Switzerland, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.  German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects (e.g. Alemannic).
Answer: British literature