The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 15988
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- UCL Press
- ISBN
- 002398-0605
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As editor of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Journal, Swaab included and edited in the 2020:1 issue two hitherto unpublished documents of the first interest to researchers on Warner. Both pertain to what is increasingly seen as her greatest novel, The Corner That Held Them. In the first piece, her draft of an uncompleted prefatory note, Warner gives us much new information about the book: she details its several working titles, describes how she relocated it from Somerset to East Anglia, narrates the process of its composition, and names Eileen Power’s English Medieval Nunneries as a source. Full endnotes draw on published sources and unpublished manuscripts to elucidate these details and contexts. The second piece is the first of two instalments of Warner’s unfinished sequel to The Corner That Held Them; owing to its length (17,000 words) this will be presented in two successive issues of the Journal. The headnote and seventy-four endnotes explain the state of the manuscript (which had been miscatalogued as ‘extracts’ from the book), contextualise the sequel in relation to the original novel, and elucidate textual difficulties and obscurities. This editing of the sequel comprises a more scholarly, ambitious and detailed presentation than any of Warner’s published fiction has yet received.
This 2020:1 Warner Journal also includes two full-length peer-reviewed articles. In the first of these David Trotter offers a strikingly original investigation of the writings and collaboration of Warner and Ackland in relation to recent discussions of the ‘posthuman’. The second article is an extended version of Swaab’s own 2019 Warner Society Lecture (a biennial invited lecture series) on ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Possibilities of Freedom’. This is the title of his Leverhulme-funded research fellowship project, and the article, a version of its introductory chapter, proposes a new thematic interpretation of Warner’s oeuvre.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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