The Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

尽管笛福最为人所知的是一位先锋小说家，但他改变了英国的政治新闻，引入了新形式的时事出版物，对他那个时代的几乎每一个重要问题都做出了贡献，并与那个时期的主要政治人物密切合作或反对。他的信件是一个重要的历史和传记来源，揭示了政党政治的兴起，1707年英国的形成，在詹姆斯党的威胁下对国家安全的焦虑，以及新闻界作为塑造舆论的力量的发展。然而，笛福书信集的唯一版本（1955年）现在已经过时了：由于新发现，它是不完整的，其学术工具极其有限，并且容易出错;此外，在笛福和英国历史的学术研究在这60年中已经变得面目全非。该版本，根据合同，以杯，将通过最新的标准的关键和文本编辑的通知，并将与正在进行的史学和文学辩论。它将成为学者和普通读者的标准阅读和研究版本，为公众了解英国的文化和政治遗产做出重要贡献。此外，该版本将在十八世纪的研究文本奖学金的重要干预。它将增加我们的书信交流，宗教历史，图书贸易和政治在动荡和基础的时刻，相当于文学和历史研究的转型研究的理解。编辑项目建立在笛福研究，十八世纪的政治和文学，和文本奖学金的杰出学者的工作和支持。共同编辑是研究员和安德烈亚斯穆勒（伍斯特），他们都编辑了笛福，并广泛发表了他作为一个政治作家和代理人。三位顾问编辑为该项目带来了丰富的经验和专业知识。J.A.唐尼（戈德史密斯）是笛福，斯威夫特和政治历史和理论的专家，以及笛福编辑。W.R.欧文斯（贝德福德）出版了许多关于笛福、参考书目和政治的书籍，重建了笛福的经典，并担任44卷本笛福作品（2000-2008）的联合总编辑。詹姆斯·麦克拉沃蒂（基尔）是十八世纪的一位著名学者和文本编辑，能够就编辑原则提出建议。RA将在该项目上工作12个月，帮助翻译，检查原件，并研究信件的上下文。该研究员的建议导师，大卫阿米戈尼，是一位经验丰富的文学学者，文本编辑和研究经理，谁将提供建议的研究员。前12个月致力于转录，编辑，研究和注释的学术版，这将提交给CUP在2018年1月31日。在2018年2月至8月的最后六个月里，研究员将完成三项旨在利用研究成果的综合活动，以便与新的广泛受众接触，并建立十八世纪研究的研究能力。首先，将有一个系列的五个免费提供的纪录片播客，针对普通观众，在十分钟的分期付款跟踪笛福的职业生涯，他的时代的社会和政治发展，以及他们在二十一世纪世纪的相关性。第二，研究员将通过协调和领导早期职业学者在文本研究和书籍历史方面的研讨会，满足该领域的迫切需要，并提供专家学术投入。最后，研究员将领导面向公众的公开讲座和研讨会，让用户参与十八世纪的印刷和手稿文化，图书贸易以及阅读和公众参与的发展。学术和公共研讨会是与项目合作伙伴利奇菲尔德的SJBM合作，将有助于提高其在学术界和面向公众的工作中未充分利用的收藏品的知名度。

Though best remembered as a pioneering novelist, Defoe transformed political journalism in Great Britain, introducing new forms of topical publication, contributing to virtually every important issue of his day, and working closely with or against the major political figures of the period. His letters are a crucial historical and biographical source that shed light on the rise of party politics, the formation of Great Britain in 1707, anxieties about state security amidst a Jacobite threat, and the development of the press as a force to shape public opinion. However, the only edition of Defoe's letters (1955) is now out of date: it is incomplete due to new discoveries, extremely limited in its scholarly apparatus, and prone to error; moreover, scholarship on Defoe and on British history has been transformed beyond recognition in the intervening sixty years. The edition, under contract to CUP, will be informed by the most up-to-date standards of critical and textual editing, and will engage with ongoing historiographical and literary debates. It will become the standard reading and research edition for scholars and general readers, making a vital contribution to public awareness of Britain's cultural and political heritage. In addition, the edition will make a crucial intervention in textual scholarship in eighteenth-century studies. It will augment our understanding of epistolary exchange, religious history, the book trade, and politics at a turbulent and foundational moment, amounting to transformational research in literary and historical studies.The editorial project builds on the work and support of eminent scholars in Defoe studies, eighteenth-century politics and literature, and textual scholarship. The co-editors are the Fellow and Andreas Mueller (Worcester), both of whom have edited Defoe and published widely on him as a political writer and agent. Three advisory editors bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the project. J.A. Downie (Goldsmiths) is an expert in Defoe, Swift, and political history and theory, as well as a Defoe editor. W.R. Owens (Bedford) has published numerous books on Defoe, bibliography, and politics, reconstituting the Defoe canon, and was co-general editor of the 44-volume Works of Defoe (2000-2008). James McLaverty (Keele) is a leading eighteenth-century scholar and textual editor able to advise on editorial principles. An RA will work on the project for 12 months, helping with transcriptions, checking originals, and researching the letters' contexts. The Fellow's proposed mentor, David Amigoni, is an experienced literary scholar, textual editor, and research manager, who will provide advice to the Fellow.The first 12 months are devoted to the transcription, editing, research, and annotating of the scholarly edition, which will be submitted to CUP on 31 January 2018. In the final six months, February-August 2018, the Fellow will bring to fruition three integrated activities designed to draw on the research in order to engage with new and wide audiences and to build research capacity in eighteenth-century studies. First, there will be a series of five freely available documentary podcasts aimed at a general audience, tracing in ten-minute instalments Defoe's career, the social and political developments of his age, and their relevance in the twenty-first century. Second, the Fellow will meet a pressing need in the field by coordinating and leading workshops for early career scholars in textual studies and book history with expert academic input. Finally, the Fellow will lead public talks and workshops for the general public, engaging users with eighteenth-century print and manuscript cultures, the book trade, and developments in reading and public engagement. The academic and public workshops are collaborations with the SJBM in Lichfield, a project partner, and will serve to raise the profile of its under-used collections among academics and in its public-facing work.