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Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s.

This 110,000-word, 280-page monograph drew on over 6 years of full-time AHRC-funded DPhil research followed by British Academy-funded postdoctoral research into Charles Lamb and his circle. It is the first book-length contextualisation of Lamb's work in the literary, religious and political networks of the 1790s, and the first full investigation of Lamb's role in early Romanticism. Based on detailed archival research (necessary in the absence of scholarly editions of Lamb) it uses unpublished MS poetry and little-known editions of primary texts from the BL, the Firestone Library, Princeton, and the Victoria Library, Toronto, and draws on over 200 secondary sources.