Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2441
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Letters from England: by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella
- Publisher
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- ISBN
- 9781848932098
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- 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
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first scholarly edition of Southey’s book and the outcome of five year’s archival research partly supported by a British Academy grant. It required transcription and collation of manuscripts held in Chetham’s Library, Manchester, and the Brotherton Library, Leeds. A detailed introduction and appendices situate Southey’s correspondence, marginalia, an unpublished manuscript of the first draft, and his Commonplace Book alongside the original text for the first time. There is extensive editorial annotation throughout.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The first scholarly edition of Robert Southey's 1807 book aims to deepen understanding of Anglo-European cultural dialogues in the Romantic period and to return its author to a prominent position in English literary history. By closely examining Southey’s correspondence, his marginalia, an unpublished first draft manuscript, and his Commonplace Book, the edition establishes the creative and political context of the work, particularly the means by which Southey used the guise of a Spanish visitor to critique English society. It reveals new details of Southey’s position as a ‘Lake poet’ and about England during the Napoleonic Wars, as well as extending the critical examination of Romantic writing beyond poetry and the Gothic novel.
Bolton’s edition draws on her long career of editing his letters and poems. Much of the content is newly presented alongside the original text for the first time. The edition, funded partly by a British Academy grant, was the result of a five-year project involving preparing the copy-text, editing, close-reading, annotating, comparing editions, transcribing the manuscript version in Chetham’s Library (Manchester), collating Southey’s annotations at the Brotherton Library (Leeds), and writing appendices and substantial introductory material.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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