The British Record Commission, Its Secretary C. P. Cooper, and Two of His German Correspondents during the 1830s.
This paper presents previously unknown pieces of correspondence between C. P. Cooper (1793-1873), the secretary of the British Record Commission, and two German scholars who supported the Commission's search for sources concerning the history of the English language and its literature. The letters i...
| Publicado en: | Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Älteren Germanistik Vol. 78; no. 2/3; pp. 204 - 228 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Aug2018
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| Sumario: | This paper presents previously unknown pieces of correspondence between C. P. Cooper (1793-1873), the secretary of the British Record Commission, and two German scholars who supported the Commission's search for sources concerning the history of the English language and its literature. The letters illustrate how the Commission's research effort on the Continent was organised by Cooper and his German partners. Their course of action will be contextualised within the Commission's history up to its abrupt end in 1837 in order to show to what extent these research endeavours and the correspondences were determined by adversarial circumstances that led first to a Parliamentary inquiry into the Commission's work and finally to its termination. |
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