The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 237633223
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198705864
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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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
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first edition of the letters of Sir Humphry Davy, a hugely significant figure in both the history of science and literature. It contains annotated transcriptions of c. 1200 letters (of which only a third have been published previously). It took 10 years to complete and comprises 2254 pages. The edition throws new light on controversies over the safety lamp, the Board of Longitude, the Geological Society, and the Royal Society. It offers new perspectives on the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. One reviewer wrote: ‘these volumes...will certainly be the event of the year in nineteenth-century studies.’
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This edition features the publication of 1209 letters written by Humphry Davy (plus 106 by contemporaries) with notes by co-editors. Prelims include introduction (co-written, 17,400 words in total, I wrote 50%), List of Letters, Editorial Principles, Glossary of Terms, Biographies, Bibliography, Index. The co-editors took a year of Davy’s letters each to annotate initially, which was then passed before the other editor for revision and checking. They ensured that they each did 50% of the work involved with the general assistance of a Senior Research Assistant.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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