The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815)

研究背景：罗伯特苏塞（1774-1843），诗人、散文家、历史学家、传记作家、翻译家和论战家，是浪漫主义时期最具争议的作家之一。他是C18晚期和C19早期英国文化的核心人物，这是一个帝国扩张的时期，英国在国外受到战争和国内政治，社会和工业变革的困扰。虽然苏塞是一位多产的记者，但他的信件从未全文发表过。目前，已出版的信件只有绝版的C19和C20选集，前者根据C19公约编辑，文本经过审查和剪切。此外，c.1500信件从未出版过。宗旨和目标：《书信集》将彻底改变这种情况，使这些重要文件集中在一个地方，其中许多是第一次提供。这3200多封信将从原始手稿中转录，新鲜编辑和注释到最高标准。c.1500将首次出版，从而为读者提供了大量关于苏塞的生活，作品和与同时代人关系的新信息。这一版本将填补苏塞著作中的一个巨大空白。此外，它还将为文学学者和历史学家的目标读者提供必要的文本资源，以便将来研究他的生活、作品以及与同行--作家、政治家、活动家和科学家--的交集。《书信集》由一组经验丰富的跨学科学者编辑，是一个电子版，将于2008年至2012年由历史悠久的同行评审专家浪漫圈[http://www.rc.umd.edu]。浪漫圈的参与证明了该项目的国际公认的重要性。浪漫圈提供的技术专长和财政支持将确保《书信集》将纳入最高的电子制作价值，并通过免费网站向尽可能广泛的受众提供。 共同申请人已经进行了大量的初步研究。这份申请是为了资助他们完成《书信集》的前半部分（第1-4部分，计划于2007- 2009年出版），并为后半部分奠定基础。此外，RA项目还将建立补充书目数据库，并在免费网址上提供。因此，他们将提供一套独特的研究工具，完成所收集的信件和工作的学者苏塞和英国浪漫主义的巨大价值。应用和好处：收集的信件出现时，兴趣苏塞是迅速增加，这种情况证明了在2004年出现的第一个主要的关键版本，他的早期和中期的职业生涯诗歌（罗伯特苏塞：诗歌作品1793-1810，eds.普拉特，富尔福德和罗伯茨，5卷：皮克林和查托），并在2006年出版的一本新的传记（W。A.斯派克，罗伯特苏塞：《文学家》，耶鲁大学出版社）和第一部专门论述他对浪漫主义时期文化影响的散文集（罗伯特苏塞和英国浪漫主义的背景，琳达·普拉特编辑，阿什盖特出版社）。《书信集》将在这些成就的基础上，推进对苏塞作为一个主要作家的批判性理解，以重新历史化的公共浪漫主义为中心。该版本将连续出版（2007年至2012年），并在所有阶段将填补公认的空白，无论是在知识的苏塞的生活和作品，并在理解他与他的同时代人的关系。它将咨询来自一系列学科的学者：文学评论家和历史学家。它也将成为未来几代研究人员的标准学术资源，与他的同行柯勒律治和华兹华斯的书信集一起占据一席之地。

Research context:Robert Southey (1774-1843), poet, essayist, historian, biographer, translator and polemicist, was one of the most controversial of all Romantic period writers. He was a central figure in late C18th and early C19th British culture, a time of imperial expansion that saw Britain beset by war abroad and political, social and industrial change at home. Although Southey was a prolific correspondent, his letters have never been published in full. At present, the published letters are available only in out-of-print C19th and C20th selections, the former edited according to C19th conventions, with texts censored and cut. In addition, c.1500 letters have never been published at all. Aims and objectives:The Collected Letters will revolutionize this situation, making these important documents available in one place, many for the first time. The 3200+ letters will be transcribed from original manuscripts, freshly edited and annotated to the very highest standards. c.1500 will be published for the first time, thus providing readers with a vast amount of new information about Southey's life, works and relationships with contemporaries. The edition will thus fill a huge gap in Southey's writings. It will, furthermore, provide its intended audience of literary scholars and historians with the textual resources essential to future work on his life, works and intersections with his peers - writers, politicians, campaigners and scientists.Edited by a team of experienced, interdisciplinary scholars, the Collected Letters is an electronic edition and will be published from 2008-12 by the long-established, peer-reviewed specialists Romantic Circles [http://www.rc.umd.edu]. Romantic Circles' involvement is testimony to the project's internationally recognized significance. The technical expertise and financial support provided by Romantic Circles will ensure that the Collected Letters will incorporate the very highest electronic production values and be made available to the widest possible audience on a free-access web-site. The co-applicants have already carried out a great deal of preliminary research. This application is for funding to allow them to complete the first half of the Collected Letters (Parts 1-4, scheduled for publication 2007-9) and to lay the foundations for the second half. In addition, the project RA will produce supplementary bibliographical databases, making these available on a free-access web-site. They will thus provide a set of unique research tools essential for completion of the Collected Letters and of great value to scholars working on Southey and British Romanticism.Applications and benefits:The Collected Letters appears at a time when interest in Southey is increasing rapidly, a situation testified to by the appearance in 2004 of the first major critical edition of his early-mid career poetry (Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810, eds. Pratt, Fulford and Roberts, 5 vols: Pickering and Chatto) and in 2006 by the publication of a new biography (W. A. Speck, Robert Southey: Man of Letters, Yale UP) and the first ever collection of essays devoted to his impact upon Romantic-period culture (Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism, ed. Lynda Pratt, Ashgate). The Collected Letters will build upon these achievements, advancing critical understanding of Southey as a major writer central to a re-historicised, public Romanticism. The edition will be published serially (2007-2012) and at all stages will fill acknowledged gaps both in knowledge of Southey's life and works and in understanding of his relationships with his contemporaries. It will be consulted by scholars from a range of disciplines: literary critics and historians. It will also become the standard scholarly resource for generations of researchers to come, taking its place alongside the collected editions of the correspondence of his peers, Coleridge and Wordsworth.