A Critical Investigation into the Life and Writings of Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)

就我们的文化而言，在很大程度上仍然是浪漫主义时期英国文化的发展，以及自然与主体性、个人主义与民族主义等经常相互冲突的思想，我对杰弗里职业生涯和著作的研究将通过在我们文化和政治历史的关键领域取得概念上的进步，为澳大利亚带来好处。十九世纪前几十年，弗朗西斯·杰弗里极具影响力的《爱丁堡评论》在美国和澳大利亚等英属殖民地比在英国更受欢迎。

Insofar as our culture was and to a large extent remains a development of the culture of Britain during the Romantic period, and of its often conflicting ideas of nature and subjectivity, individualism and nationalism, my research into Jeffrey's career and writings will bring benefit to Australia by making conceptual advances in key areas of our cultural and political history. The only places where Francis Jeffrey's enormously influential 'Edinburgh Review' was read more avidly than in Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century were in the ex-colony of America and in British colonies like Australia.