The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Recipient: Secord, James A (Cambridge, England) in affiliation with American Council of Learned Societies (New York, NY 10017 USA)

Goal: Preparation for the print publication of Volumes 18-20 of the British naturalist Charles Darwin's correspondence, covering the years 1870-72. (36 months)

Description: This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period of August 1, 2009 through July 30, 2012, to support the scholarly edition The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. The Darwin Correspondence Project is an independent, binational scholarly undertaking, jointly managed by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Cambridge University, with the object of providing the definitive edition of letters to and from Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. The Project's output is in the form of both a comprehensive print edition, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (F. Burkhardt et al. eds), and a fully searchable Online Database (http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/); letter texts and explanatory notes are incorporated into the Online Database four years after print publication. When complete, the print edition will comprise thirty volumes, two of which will be two-part volumes.

Grant: 196557 / RQ-50388-09,   Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2009

Edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Recipient: Secord, James A (Cambridge, England) in affiliation with American Council of Learned Societies (New York, NY 10017 USA)

Goal: Work on Volumes 16, 17, 18, and 19 of an edition of the correspondence of Charles Darwin.

Description: Preparation of a definitive edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, including approximately fifteen thousand letters he wrote and received, edited according to modern textual principles and practices.

Grant: 176315 / RQ-50154-05,   Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2005

Archaeological Field Data from UC Berkeley Expedition to Nineveh: 1987, 1989, 1990

Recipient: Wilkinson, Eleanor Barbanes (Berkeley, CA 94720 England) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)

Goal: The creation of a digital database of field documentation from the university's archaeological survey and selected excavations at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh (7th millennium into 1st millennium BCE) that were conducted in 1987, 1989, and 1990.

Grant: 179381 / PI-50021-05,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Iraqi Cultural Heritage Initiative,   Year Awarded: 2005

The French of England

Recipient: Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn (York YO1 7EP, 10458 England) in affiliation with Fordham University (Bronx, NY 10458 USA)

Goal: Production of reliable English translations of complete French medieval texts that are significant and non-canonical, and a volume entitled The French of England: Vernacular Literary Theory and Practices, 1130-1450.

Description: This project seeks to develop tools for English-speaking scholars and students that will help and encourage them to read the French literature of medieval England, a body of nearly a thousand literary texts integral to the history and culture of England. One part of the project, an initial series of seven translations of complete French texts, suggests the range and variety of that literature: holy and lineal biographies, romances of land and lineage, conduct literature, devotional and theological works, both pious and violent, a treatise on the wounds of sin by a lay aristocrat, and major neo-classical romance. The second part of the project consists of an "argued anthology" of approximately seventy prologues, epilogues and other excerpts edited and translated afresh or anew from manuscript. This volume will provide the largest available conspectus of the French literature of medieval England, and it will demonstrate how the French literature of England, aware of itself as an entity in its own right, comments upon its existence and aims. As such, the anthology will be positioned to contribute to current investigations of medieval vernacular literary theory.

Grant: 170873 / RZ-50250-04,   Category: Literature,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2004

The Remaking of Charles Dickens: Crisis and Transformation, 1857-1861

Recipient: Bowen, John Michael (Birmingham, England) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA)

Goal: A five-week summer seminar for 15 college teachers on Charles Dickens' writings during a period of crucial change in his life and literary concerns.

Grant: 165486 / FS-50003-03,   Category: British Literature,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

Democracy and Liberty in Mill and Tocqueville

Recipient: Ryan, Alan J (Oxford, England) in affiliation with Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA)

Grant: 151456 / FS-22700-93,   Category: Political Science,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993

Reassessments in 17th-Century Political Thought

Recipient: Ryan, Alan J (Oxford, England) in affiliation with Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA)

Grant: 151283 / FS-22224-91,   Category: Political Science,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991

C.P.E. Bach Complete Edition, Series II, Vol 8: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 19, 20, and 21, ed. by C. Widgery & L. Bagger

Recipient: Elloway, Julian D (England) in affiliation with Oxford University Press (Oxford, England)

Goal: To support the publication of a volume in the complete critical edition of the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714-88.

Grant: 160861 / RP-21279-90,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1990

C.P.E. Bach Complete Edition, Series II, Vol 23: Sonatinas Nos. 4 & 5, ed. by P. Wiley and C. Widgery

Recipient: Elloway, Julian D (England) in affiliation with Oxford University Press (Oxford, England)

Goal: To support the publication of a volume in the complete critical edition of the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714-88.

Grant: 160862 / RP-21280-90,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1990

17th Century Dutch Physic and Natural History

Recipient: Cook, Harold J (London NW1 1AD, WI 53706 England) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)

Goal: To support a history of 17th-century Dutch medicine and natural history in or- der to compare the development of Dutch and English science and clarify the role of social and institutional factors in scientific developments generally.

Grant: 159775 / RH-20897-89,   Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Humanities, Science, and Technology,   Year Awarded: 1989

A Grammar and Glossary for the Three Versions of PIERS PLOWMAN

Recipient: Kane, George (England) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)

Goal: To support preparation of a consolidated glossary for the three versions of the14th-century poem PIERS PLOWMAN and a descriptive grammar of its language.

Grant: 161219 / RT-20813-87,   Category: English,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1987

The Origins of Southern Thought

Recipient: O'Brien, Michael (Cambridge, 45056 England) in affiliation with Miami University, Oxford (Oxford, OH 45056 USA)

Goal: To support a study of the intellectual history of the antebellum South by exam-ining the figures who constituted the southern intelligentsia and the works they produced. A data base on these intellectuals is planned.

Grant: 160393 / RO-21506-87,   Category: American History,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Basic Research,   Year Awarded: 1987

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733-1764, edited by James Tierney

Recipient: Taylor, Kevin J (England) in affiliation with Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England)

Goal: To support the publication of the correspondence of Robert Dodsley, an 18th-century London publisher and bookseller.

Grant: 160730 / RP-20967-87,   Category: British Literature,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1987

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Stage

Recipient: Styan, John L (England) in affiliation with Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

Grant: 129705 / FS-21617-86,   Category: British Literature,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1986

The New-Kingdom Temples of Semna and Kumma, by Ricardo A. Caminos; 2 volumes

Recipient: Dixon, David M (England) in affiliation with Egypt Exploration Society (London, England)

Goal: To support the publication of detailed epigraphic and architectural surveys of two Egyptian temples from the 15th century B.C. in the twin fortress towns of Semna and Kumma in Sudanese Nubia.

Grant: 138957 / RP-20857-86,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1986

The Making of the Constitution

Recipient: Beeman, Richard R (Headington, Oxford, England) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Grant: 131957 / FV-20423-85,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1985

A Conference on "The Creation of the American Constitution"

Recipient: Beeman, Richard R (Headington, Oxford, England) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Goal: To support a conference on the creation of the American Constitution for legal scholars, historians, and political scientists sponsored by the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute of Early American History.

Grant: 139879 / RX-20469-84,   Category: American Government,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Conferences,   Year Awarded: 1984

Pierre Bourdieu's LA DISTINCTION: A Translation Project

Recipient: Nice, Richard A (England) in affiliation with Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA)

Goal: To support translation of Pierre Bourdieu's "Social Criticism of Judgment," important to the study of modern sociology.

Grant: 137695 / RL-*2236-81,   Category: Sociology,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1981

A Calendar of the Letters of E. M. Forster

Recipient: Lago, Mary M (England) in affiliation with University of Missouri, Columbia (Columbia, MO 65211 USA)

Goal: To support preparation of a one-volume calendar that will serve as the only complete directory to the estimated 10,000 letters of 20th century British novelist, E.M. Forster. The correspondence provides insight into major 20th century authors and literary movements.

Grant: 139383 / RT-*1495-80,   Category: British Literature,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1980

An Edition of the C Version of Piers Plowman to be Vol. III of the Athlone Press Series

Recipient: Kane, George (England) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)

Goal: To support completion of Volume III of the Athlone Press edition of "Piers Plowman," containing the "C" version of this important medieval poem.

Grant: 137085 / RE-*1488-80,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Editions,   Year Awarded: 1980