Poetry and the Dictionary
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 256706126
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 9781789620566
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- 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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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Poetry and the Dictionary was jointly conceived by the editors in 2013.This c.105,000-word volume started life as a symposium at St Peter’s College, Oxford, at which some of the chapters (by Brewer, Sperling, Williams, and Goodland) were delivered as conference papers. However, the subsequent book-proposal for Liverpool University Press was markedly different, with chapters by both co-editors, and others commissioned from scholars not involved in the symposium (Stubbs, Whitworth, Bowman). As co-editor, Blades was involved in the design and organisation of the respective sections, the ordering of the twelve chapters, substantial copyediting, and matters such as the choice of cover image and the seeking of copyright permissions. He contributed a sole-authored chapter on ‘James Merrill’s Dictionaries’ (pp.216-37; c.9,000 words), wrote around 40% of the Introduction (pp.3-25; c.9,500 words), and co-compiled the index. The book fits with the broad arc of Blades’s research – an ongoing interest in twentieth-century American poetry and in the work of James Merrill more specifically (there is another chapter on James Merrill’s poetry in Blades’s forthcoming monograph, Retroviral Writings).
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- Non-English
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