The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: Volume 4, English Lion, 1930-1933
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 76111
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1353/book.43271
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press & Faber and Faber
- ISBN
- 9781421418919
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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https://muse.jhu.edu/about/reference/eliot/
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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
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This critical edition is the result of six years' work. It is over 900 pages in length. Research for this output necessitated extensive original scholarship conducted in the hitherto restricted archives at Faber & Faber and at numerous US and UK research libraries. The research associated with this output was especially complex in that it necessitated evolving textual and annotational principles for a modern edition of an exceptional range and scope of material.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: Volume 4, English Lion, 1930-1933, funded by a large AHRC grant, is the result of a ten-year collaboration between the Estate of T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber and Johns Hopkins University Press. This critical digital edition, the first annotated edition of Eliot’s prose, has been described as a landmark in Eliot criticism and will transform understanding of the century’s pre-eminent poet-critic. Volume 4 is over 900 pages long including the index and gathers all collected, uncollected and unpublished prose from the years 1930 to 1933, including Eliot’s hitherto unpublished Harvard lecture notes on contemporary writers. It offers the first detailed analysis of Eliot’s development as a literary critic, social critic and public intellectual during these years, drawing on letters and papers held in hitherto restricted archives. Each prose item is fully annotated, including the identification of all persons mentioned in the text, and all references and literary allusions – quotations are checked against the original, when possible using Eliot’s own library or editions he consulted - and also including extensive contextual notes to clarify details of fact and circumstance for a global modern readership. Harding textually edited and fully annotated each item (the final form was agreed with General Editor Ronald Schuchard) and wrote a 10,000 word introduction providing a pioneering interpretation of these years.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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