The Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

尽管笛福作为一位开拓性的小说家而被人们铭记，但他改变了英国的政治新闻业，引入了新的专题出版物形式，为他那个时代的几乎每一个重要问题做出了贡献，并与那个时代的主要政治人物密切合作。他的信件是一个重要的历史和传记来源，揭示了政党政治的崛起，1707年大不列颠的形成，在雅各布派威胁下对国家安全的焦虑，以及媒体作为塑造公众舆论的力量的发展。然而，笛福书信的唯一版本(1955年)现在已经过时：由于新的发现，它是不完整的，其学术机构极其有限，容易出错；此外，关于笛福和英国历史的学术已经在其间的60年里发生了面目全非的变化。根据与CUP签订的合同，该版本将采用最新的批评和文本编辑标准，并将参与正在进行的历史学和文学辩论。它将成为学者和普通读者的标准阅读和研究版本，为提高公众对英国文化和政治遗产的认识做出重要贡献。此外，该版本将对18世纪研究中的文本学术进行关键的干预。它将增加我们对书信交流、宗教史、图书贸易和政治在一个动荡和基础时刻的理解，相当于文学和历史研究的变革性研究。编辑项目建立在著名学者在笛福研究、18世纪政治和文学以及文本学术方面的工作和支持的基础上。联合编辑是The Fate和安德烈亚斯·穆勒(Andreas Mueller)(伍斯特饰)，他们两人都曾编辑过笛福，并作为一名政治作家和代理人广泛发表了关于他的文章。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(金匠)是笛福、斯威夫特以及政治史和理论方面的专家，也是笛福的编辑。W.R.欧文斯(贝德福德)出版了大量关于笛福、书目和政治的书籍，重建了笛福经典，并联合主编了44卷的笛福作品(2000-2008)。詹姆斯·麦克拉弗蒂(基尔)是十八世纪著名的学者和文本编辑，能够就编辑原则提出建议。一名RA将在这个项目上工作12个月，帮助转录，检查原件，并研究信件的背景。该研究员的拟议导师David Amigoni是一位经验丰富的文学学者、文本编辑和研究经理，他将向研究员提供建议。前12个月用于转录、编辑、研究和注释学术版，该版本将于2018年1月31日提交给CUP。在最后六个月，即2018年2月至8月，该研究员将开展三项旨在利用研究成果的综合活动，以便接触新的和广泛的受众，并建设18世纪研究的研究能力。首先，将有一系列五个免费提供的纪录片播客，面向普通观众，以十分钟的分期付款方式追溯笛福的职业生涯，他那个时代的社会和政治发展，以及它们在21世纪的意义。其次，该研究员将通过协调和领导为早期职业学者举办的考据研究和具有专家学术投入的历史书籍研讨会来满足该领域的迫切需求。最后，这位研究员将领导公众的公开演讲和研讨会，让用户了解18世纪的印刷和手稿文化、图书贸易以及阅读和公共参与的发展。学术和公共讲习班是与项目合作伙伴利奇菲尔德的SJBM合作举办的，将有助于提高其未得到充分利用的藏品在学术界和面向公众的工作中的形象。

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 However, the only edition of Defoe's letters (1955) is now out of date: it is incomplete due to new discoveries, extremely limited in its scholarly apparatus, and prone to error; moreover, scholarship on Defoe and on British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.