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aim of Cardiff Corvey is to develop technologies such
as the Internet, with its internationalism and ease of access,
while advancing studies based on established scholarly disciplines,
such as textual editing, bibliographical analysis, and literary
history. By involving as many people interested in
the field of Romantic studies as we can, we hope to create a source
of relevant information for the academic community at large.
We hope to make Cardiff Corvey
more than just a homepage which gives a ‘guided tour’
of the material available at Cardiff University: we want to
show how those resources can used in dynamic and compelling
ways. The CME offers a rich vein of data with the
capacity to change the way we think about English literature
and society during the Romantic era. Preliminary
analysis of gender and text from the turn of the nineteenth
century reveal compelling facts about publishing trends in the
literary market. Our aim is to develop Cardiff
Corvey into a forum for the dissemination and discussion
of new matter from this significant period in the development
of the modern text.
Initially, Cardiff Corvey
will provide basic information in the form of articles detailing
research based on the material to be found in the Corvey Collection
(see our Articles section for essays discussing various
aspects of Romantic-era collections).
The next phase
will involve introducing a Forum for enquiry
based on authorship, chronology, canonicity, and
textual/bibliographical matters. This
will hope to use the Internet in its best guise:
as an open community of discourse and enquiry
around the discipline of English Romantic studies. Such
a forum might have a number of possible uses:
 To comment on and
query articles which have been published, and the conclusions
to which they might have led;
In order to make enquiries
about specific texts and authors, which might be available through
perusal of the CME at Cardiff. Of course, we couldn’t
be expected to do ‘donkey-work’ research on behalf
of querents! Rather, important and fundamental queries
which influence the topics mentioned above, will be our primary
interest;
Statements which might
generate interest in new aspects of the subject, again would
be most welcome.
We
more than welcome any contributions that members of the academic
community might wish to make. Any papers supplied for
prospective publication on this site will be seriously considered,
undergoing a process of peer-review. Articles we would
be most interested in publishing include those addressing Romantic
literary studies with an especial slant on book history, textual
and bibliographical studies, the literary marketplace and the
publishing world, and so forth.
As with all resources, the usefulness
of a tool depends on how much interest is invested in it and
how it is used—the more feedback we get from you about
the direction we should take, the more useful we will become. Our
aims in establishing Cardiff Corvey are functionality,
viability and longevity: all three are based on how our audience
views us, and if that audience sees something it likes or something
it dislikes then all it need do is let us know—any reasonable
suggestions will be treated seriously. As with all
things, however, it is best to start small and grow slowly with
the advantage of stability and clarity of purpose.
Last modified
5 January, 2003
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This document is maintained by Anthony Mandal (Mandal@cf.ac.uk).
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