Ben Jonson and Posterity: Reception, Reputation, Legacy
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-52
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108903967
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial output (c. 120,000 words) was completed by 10 specialists over a 4-year period. Contributors undertook extensive primary and secondary research, including archival research in several libraries in the UK and the US. The collection investigated Ben Jonson's literary reception in multiple social, political, cultural, and material contexts, exploring the whole period from his lifetime to the present. Drawing on innovative approaches such as celebrity studies, book ownership, and life-writing, it offers minute scrutiny of key moments in his afterlife to present an account of his legacy that challenges many received assumptions in this area
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As the editors of the collection we devised a conference to explore the initial research questions and, following this event, planned the volume. We assembled a team of outstanding and internationally recognized specialists, and ensured the volume addresses an unusual range and variety of angles, including in-depth case-studies and historical coverage across the whole field. We devised the book proposal for submission to the press, gave contributors guidance on their chapters, and provided detailed feedback on drafts of submissions. We each contributed a chapter and jointly wrote a substantial introduction (c. 10,000 words), and each of these pieces draws on extensive primary and secondary research. This editorial work ensured that the volume as a whole gives an original, cogent, and full account of Ben Jonson’s literary reception from his lifetime to the present, drawing on multiple complementary methodologies and perspectives to give new research insights. The essays individually illuminate under-researched aspects of his afterlife, including theatrical adaptations, biographical novelizations, anecdotes, book illustrations, and readers' marginalia, and collectively demonstrate how that afterlife has been shaped in accordance with the values and tastes of successive eras.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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