John Aubrey: Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers

John Aubrey: Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers

by Kate Bennett
ISBN-10:
0199689539
ISBN-13:
9780199689538
Pub. Date:
05/26/2015
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199689539
ISBN-13:
9780199689538
Pub. Date:
05/26/2015
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
John Aubrey: Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers

John Aubrey: Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers

by Kate Bennett

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Overview

This is the first scholarly edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives since 1898, the first to include the complete text of the three Brief Lives manuscripts (including censored and deleted material, title pages, antiquarian notes, and the indices), and the first to provide a full general and critical introduction and comprehensive commentary.

This edition is the first to respect the original arrangement of the Lives in Aubrey's manuscripts. Brief Lives is presented as an antiquarian and collaborative text, containing the autograph papers of biographical subjects, the annotations of those among whom the manuscripts circulated, and wax seals. As well as 25 facsimile pages, there are over 160 images, reproducing for the first time all Aubrey's horoscopes, pedigrees, coats of arms, and topographical sketches as they are found in the manuscripts. The text respects the mise-en-page of the manuscript and its status as an incomplete and heavily revised work-in-progress while presenting an edited, rather than a diplomatic, text.

The commentary presents extensive new research on manuscript sources including much material not previously known to be Aubrey's or associated with him. It also reflects the state of current scholarship. Each life is introduced by a headnote placing the life in context. This gives the dates and sequence of composition and an account of Aubrey's relationship with the biographical subject, the circulation of knowledge of that subject in Aubrey's circle, and a full account of Aubrey's notes on the subject of the life in other manuscripts and correspondence. Aubrey's biographical informants also have a long note, as do uncompleted or missing Lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199689538
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/26/2015
Edition description: Critical ed.
Pages: 1968
Product dimensions: 9.40(w) x 6.50(h) x 4.60(d)

About the Author

Kate Bennett, member of the Oxford English faculty

Kate Bennett was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She was Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of New College, Oxford. She teaches English at Magdalen, Oxford, and is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Index of the Lives in Volume IIndex of Biographical Commentaries and Headnotes in Volume IGeneral Introduction1. Philosophical and Heartie Entertainment2. Aubrey's Prety Collections3. Collaborative Writing4. Aubrey and WoodTEXTUAL INTRODUCTION1. The Making of Brief Lives2. The Excised Lives3. The Earlier Editions4. The Present EditionTEXTUAL CONVENTIONSBrief Lives, Volume IBrief Lives, Volume IIBrief Lives, Volume IIIAn Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers
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