A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 140011698
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781139248914
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781139248914
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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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
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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
- I am the sole editor of this volume, the first work dedicated specifically to neo-Latin literature (as opposed to neo-Latin writing more generally), and still one of only a handful of reference works in the field. Structured mainly by genre rather than (as in other reference works) by nation, many of the chapters, such as that on dialogue, were the first attempt to define a given genre and its significance within neo-Latin literature. It is also the only recent reference work in the field to have a full consolidated bibliography, the collation of which was a major piece of scholarly work in its own right. I was solely responsible for conceiving and proposing the volume to CUP; commissioning all 22 contributors from 12 countries; editing all contributions and compiling the bibliography. I wrote the introduction, which has been particularly commended in several reviews, and also contributed a chapter on didactic verse, which takes a markedly different approach to this ‘genre’ than previous discussions. The editing work was substantial: many of the contributing authors are not native speakers of English, and are accustomed to writing in a very different style from that which was appropriate for this project. For this reason, I had to edit almost all the chapters to a considerable degree, and some very substantially. One contributor died before editing his chapter (Cummings, ‘Epigram’) so I edited it myself. I also translated one chapter (Waquet, ‘Republic of Letters’) from French.
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