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29 - English Language and Literature
Queen's University Belfast
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Brief description
The Life of John Buncle, Esq
Type
R - Scholarly edition
DOI
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Publisher of book
Four Courts Press
Title of edition
The Life of John Buncle, Esq
ISBN of book
978-1-84682-286-5
Year of publication
2011
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This is the first critical edition of a work by the author Thomas Amory. The novel engages with an encyclopaedic range of eighteenth-century interests including theology, mathematics, natural history, church history and political controversy which required extensive research across a range of disciplines. The novel also draws upon one hundred and forty one texts as source texts, a level of allusion not previously recognised, and these also required extensive searching. The author himself is obscure, requiring extensive biographical research. The text is a long novel (131,605 words) which was fully collated for all variants across three life-time editions.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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