Critical edition in German: 'Louise von François - 'Phosphorus Hollunder' und 'Der Posten der Frau''

路易斯·冯·弗朗索瓦的两部作品的评论版。(Book与现代人文科学研究协会签订合同，2008年秋季出版。见宣传：www.mhra.org/Publications/Books/Criticaltexts.html。我在19世纪德国文学领域的研究最近导致了“路易丝·冯·弗朗索瓦的散文小说（1817-1893年）”的出版，牛津-伯尔尼，朗，2006年。第一本关于这位相对不知名的作家的英文专著，这项研究填补了现代学术界的一个空白，重新评估了19世纪世纪非经典女作家的文学和知识遗产。在这个项目之后，鉴于自1918年以来弗朗索瓦的作品没有出现新版本，我试图解决这位作者对可访问的，注释的主要文本的需求。结果，我得到了一份合同，为她的两部中篇小说出版一卷德文评论版。“磷Hollunder”和“Der Posten der Frau”（都是1857年）说明了弗朗索瓦的工作作为一个整体的当务之急：该卷将以德文撰写，从而提高其在德语世界的学术地位和市场竞争力，并将介绍弗朗索瓦的生活和工作，对两部中篇小说的评论，并对文中所载的历史和文化参考资料作了详细说明。这将是弗朗索瓦作品的第一个批判版本，并将出现在现代人文研究协会的新“批判文本”系列中。一个著名的出版商对弗朗索瓦兴趣的重新唤醒做出了积极的回应，这表明了她的工作质量和这个项目的学术价值。

Critical edition of two works by Louise von François. (Book contract with Modern Humanities Research Association, for publication in autumn 2008. See publicity: www.mhra.org/Publications/Books/Criticaltexts.html.)My research within the field of 19th-century German literature has recently resulted in the publication of 'The Prose Fiction of Louise von François (1817-1893)', Oxford-Berne, Lang, 2006. The first monograph in English on this relatively unknown writer, this study fills a gap in the modern body of scholarship that reassesses the literary and intellectual legacy of non-canonical woman writers of the 19th century. Following this project, in view of the fact that no new edition of François's work has appeared since 1918, I have sought to address the need for accessible, annotated primary texts by this author. As a result I have secured a contract for a one-volume critical edition in German of two of her novellas. 'Phosphorus Hollunder' and 'Der Posten der Frau' (both 1857) illustrate the preoccupations of François's work as a whole: an endorsement of honour and duty as prerequisites for a more equitable society, an antipathy towards class prejudice and religious intolerance, and a distinctive focus on female self-reliance.The volume will be written in German, thus enhancing its academic status and marketability throughout the German-speaking world, and will offer an introduction on the life and work of François, a critical commentary on the two novellas in question, and detailed notes on the historical and cultural references contained in the text. This will be the first ever critical edition of François's work, and will appear in the Modern Humanities Research Association's new 'Critical Texts' series. This positive response on the part of a prestigious publisher to the reawakening of interest in François is indicative both of the quality of her work and the academic merit of this project.