The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815)
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Grant Holder:
Dr Lynda Pratt
Loved and loathed in equal measures by his contemporaries, the poet, biographer, historian and social and cultural critic Robert Southey (1774-1843) was one of the most public and controversial figures in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. The Collected Letters will make it possible for scholars to access for the first time his complete surviving correspondence. By providing annotated and accurate texts of Southey's letters, newly edited from manuscript originals, and by mounting them on a free-access, fully-searchable website via the international, peer-reviewed web-journal Romantic Circles, the edition will completely revolutionize both availability of the letters and scholarly understanding of their importance. The edition is divided into eight parts. These will be broken down as follows: I: 1791-1797, II:1798-1803, III:1804-09, IV:1810-15, V:1816-21, VI:1822-27, VII:1828-33, VIII:1834-39.
| Project start date: 2006-04 | Project end date: 2010-03 |
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Funding sources:
British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The Leverhulme Trust
Source material used:
All letters in the edition are newly transcribed from manuscripts in c. 210 archives spread across the world.
Digital resource created:
Searchable transcriptions of the letters of Robert Southey.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
TEI P5 XML
Publications:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters/index.html [Collected Letters of Robert Southey]
Institutions affiliated with this project:
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| University of Nottingham |
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| Nottingham Trent University |
| University of Lincoln |
| Loughborough University |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Lynda Pratt, Professor Tim Fulford |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Lynda Pratt |
| Title | The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815) |
| Record created | 2010-04-27 |
| Record updated | 2011-03-25 11:57 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3588 |
| Citation of record | Lynda Pratt: The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3588> created: 2010-04-27, last updated 2011-03-25 11:57 |