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.The first scholarly edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives since 1898Offers a complete transcription of the text for the first timeThe only annotated edition of the textAnnotations based on a vast amount of new manuscript evidenceIncludes a detailed introduction
Edited by:
Kate Bennett
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 3.210kg
ISBN: 9780199689538
ISBN 10: 0199689539
Publication Date: 17 February 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Index of the Lives in Volume I ; Index of Biographical Commentaries and Headnotes in Volume I ; GENERAL INTRODUCTION ; 1. Philosophical and Heartie Entertainment ; 2. Aubrey's Prety Collections ; 3. Collaborative Writing ; 4. Aubrey and Wood ; TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Making of Brief Lives ; 2. The Excised Lives ; 3. The Earlier Editions ; 4. The Present Edition ; TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS ; Brief Lives, Volume I ; Brief Lives, Volume II ; Brief Lives, Volume III ; An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers
