More uncollected pieces are promised in this model of editorial scholarship.' Durham University Journal. These commentaries synthesise a staggering body of published critical work and do the reader the courtesy of referring him or her to related primary and secondary materials. `This is the first volume of what will certainly be the definitive edition of Shelley's prose. meticulously researched and beautifully printed book.' Times Literary Supplement.
This new edition promises to be a landmark in Shelley scholarship. Its editor has mastered the often frighteningly complicated printed and manuscript materials, and offers all of Shelley's known prose works in a reasoned chronological arrangement. There has never been a satisfactory scholarly edition of the prose. The commentary also contains more detailed copy-text descriptions, more thorough accounts of provenance, and more information on sources and allusions, than any previous edition of the works.
In addition, the Introduction supplies a full account of previous editions, and places the prose pieces in their political context and the commentary pays particular attention to the problems of dating the manuscripts. The texts, which are based on first editions and manuscripts, were all written between Shelley's last months in Oxford in 1811 and his departure for Italy in 1818: they preserve his original punctuation and spelling, and textual notes give copy-text variants, revisions, and deletions. Volume I of this major critical edition of Shelley's prose - the first since the Julian Edition (1926-30) - provides authoritative texts of The Necessity of Atheism, the Irish pamphlets, the vegetarian essays, The Assassins, A Refutation of Deism, On Christianity, the `Hermit of Marlow' political writings, and several reviews. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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