Fame and Fortune : Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 112391210
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-58054-2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137580535
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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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
- Yes
- Additional information
- This volume arose out of two trajectories: George Rousseau’s weighty biography of 2012, The Notorious Sir John Hill, and a subsequent conference for Hill’s tercentenary, which I organised at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at KCL in 2014. For Fame and Fortune, I found seven of the thirteen contributors; I edited all the contributions; I wrote one of the chapters, on life writing and Hill (an entirely new angle); I wrote half the Introduction (approx. pp. 6-13), co-wrote other parts and edited, single handed, the whole Introduction. That was more of a challenge than usual because my co-author was heavily invested in the subject in ways that needed substantial reshaping for the innovative frame of fame and fortune, and a different way of seeing the 1750s, with Hill restored to view as a significant figure in important fields including literature, medicine and botany. The volume is interdisciplinary, so I was editing across botany, geology and medicine as well as humanities. I commissioned a replacement contributor to fill an unexpected gap, and worked closely with him to connect his research to the aims of the volume. I also proposed the image for the cover, oversaw proofs and final production.
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- Non-English
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