The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies: Volume 2
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2145
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies: Volume 2
- Publisher
- OUP
- ISBN
- 9780199683451
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- 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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- Double-weighted statement
- As well as an entirely new text of Vile Bodies, this critical edition of Evelyn Waugh's second novel also includes an Introduction (27,000 words), Contextual Notes (13,500 words) and a detailed record of Manuscript and Textual Variants (54,000). Even excluding the main text of Vile Bodies, Stannard's contributions to the volume amount to c. 95,000 words. The substantial introduction is also supplemented by thirteen rare historical illustrations curated by Stannard.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Stannard is solely responsible for all the research in this volume. He is the sole author of the Introduction (26,906 words), the Contextual Notes (13,543 words) and the Manuscript and Textual Variants (54,159). The latter records, in chronological order, all substantive variants from the manuscript onwards, and, using this work, the main text of Vile Bodies has been revised to avoid obscurities resulting from issues such as mis-settings and Waugh's own misspellings. As such, the critical edition presents an entirely new text of Vile Bodies for which Stannard is solely responsible. The substantial introduction, which addresses the genesis and publication history of the novel, its cultural context, critical reception and place within Waugh's literary oeuvre, is also supplemented by thirteen rare historical illustrations curated by Stannard. Vile Bodies is the second volume of Oxford University Press's 43-volume Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, of which Stannard is the chief editor. The project was funded by a large AHRC grant, for which Stannard was Principal Investigator. The other 42 volumes in the Complete Works follow the scholarly and editorial methodology that Stannard developed as chief editor and employs in this edition of Vile Bodies.
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- Non-English
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