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The Collected Letters of Thomas Beddoes, ed. Tim Fulford and Dahlia Porter (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

托马斯·贝多斯书信集，编辑。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V008773/1
负责人：
Tim Fulford
金额：
$ 39.69万
依托单位：
De Montfort University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV008773%2F1
关键词：
Collected Letters Thomas Beddoes ed.

项目摘要

Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) was, in Roy Porter's words, 'a central late-Enlightenment figure', a man of great influence on the development of science, medicine and literature because of his transmission of ideas in lectures, in print and in letters (Porter, Doctor of Society, p. 5). By dint of his theoretical publications, experimental programme and, most of all, his vast correspondence network, Beddoes played a leading role in moving Enlightenment thought across generations and borders, fomenting developments in fields from therapeutic medicine to chemistry to poetry. Because of his diverse network of correspondents-and because his letters range across a multitude of subjects and engage with medical and philosophical tenets that many of his British contemporaries only knew of anecdotally-Beddoes's 900+ letters present a new and potentially transformative picture of the ways in which innovations in science, medicine, literature and politics were mutually generative in this period. They provide a striking new perspective on how correspondence networks-both within Britain and internationally-shaped a 'culture of enquiry' in which investigations in literature medicine, chemistry, philosophy, and social reform were pursued together. Our project will publish The Collected Letters of Thomas Beddoes, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, 2026). This edition, edited to the highest scholarly standards will contain over 900 letters to major literary and scientific figures including Joseph Black, S. T. Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Humphry Davy, Maria Edgeworth, James Keir, Thomas Malthus, John Murray, Joseph Priestley, James Watt, Thomas Wedgwood. The edition will provide fully annotated texts, expanding our knowledge of Beddoes's literary, scientific, and medical networks and their role in developing significant changes in the intellectual and technological culture of Britain and Europe. These changes include the institutionalisation of scientific research, the development of preventive medicine, the introduction of largescale data gathering, the pioneering of Romantic poetry, the introduction to Britain of Lavoiserian chemistry and Kantian philosophy, and the dissemination in Europe of new medical theory.We will also publish 3 articles in journals on Beddoes and his correspondence. We will organise 3 public-facing symposia at which the letters of Beddoes and their significance in the histories of literature, science and medicine will be debated by Fulford, Porter and members of the edition's Advisory Board (Jan Golinski, Frank James, Trevor Levere, Neil Vickers) with academics from literary, editorial and historical disciplines and with the public. We will publish letter transcriptions open access, free-to-read, on a De Montfort-hosted website.

托马斯·贝多斯博士(1760-1808)，用罗伊·波特的话说，是“启蒙运动后期的核心人物”，他通过演讲、印刷和书信传达思想，对科学、医学和文学的发展产生了巨大影响(波特，《社会博士》，第5页)。凭借他的理论出版物、实验计划以及最重要的是他庞大的通信网络，贝多斯在推动启蒙思想跨越世代和国界方面发挥了主导作用，推动了从治疗医学到化学再到诗歌等领域的发展。由于他的通信网络多样化，而且他的信件涉及多个主题，涉及医学和哲学原理，而他的许多英国同代人只知道一些轶事-贝多斯的900多封信件呈现了一幅新的、潜在的变革性图景，展示了科学、医学、文学和政治方面的创新在这一时期相互促进的方式。他们提供了一个惊人的新视角，说明通信网络--无论是在英国国内还是在国际上--是如何形成一种“询问文化”的，在这种文化中，文学、医学、化学、哲学和社会改革的调查都是一起进行的。我们的项目将出版《托马斯·贝多斯书信集》，2卷(剑桥大学出版社，2026)。这个以最高学术标准编辑的版本将包含900多封致主要文学和科学人物的信件，其中包括约瑟夫·布莱克、S·T·柯勒律治、伊拉斯谟·达尔文、汉弗莱·戴维、玛丽亚·埃奇沃斯、詹姆斯·基尔、托马斯·马尔萨斯、约翰·默里、约瑟夫·普里斯特利、詹姆斯·瓦特、托马斯·韦奇伍德。该版本将提供完全注释的文本，扩大我们对贝多的文学、科学和医疗网络的了解，以及它们在英国和欧洲智力和技术文化的重大变化中所起的作用。这些变化包括科学研究的制度化，预防医学的发展，大规模数据收集的引入，浪漫主义诗歌的开创，拉沃伊斯尔化学和康德哲学在英国的引入，以及新医学理论在欧洲的传播。我们还将在期刊上发表3篇关于贝多和他的信件的文章。我们将组织3个面向公众的座谈会，富尔福德、波特和该版本顾问委员会的成员(简·戈林斯基、弗兰克·詹姆斯、特雷弗·莱弗、尼尔·维克斯)将与文学、编辑和历史学科的学者以及公众辩论贝多的信件及其在文学、科学和医学史上的意义。我们将在德蒙福特托管的网站上发布信件抄本，开放获取，免费阅读。