2021
DOI: 10.1353/sip.2021.0013
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"On the Eminent Dr Edward Brown's Travels": A Familial Network of Creation in the Philosophical Transactions

Abstract: This article explores the authorship of knowledge in the late seventeenth century, with a focus on Dr. Edward Browne's (1644-1708 contributions to the Royal Society and travel literature. An analysis of the manuscript sources and ensuing printed accounts of Browne's 1668-1669 European travels gives rise to three key conclusions: firstly, that correspondence sent to the Society's secretary, Henry Oldenburg (1619-1677), was not always unmediated and was at times edited by agents at home (in this case, Thomas Bro… Show more

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“…27 Just as Adam Smyth found in English church wardens' records and financial account books, life-writing and written mobile lives can be found in unexpected places, and often travelled between textual forms, showing signs of processing and editing in between (Smyth 2010). Likewise, travel writing usually traversed across different media from initial notes to the final accounts that were revised, edited, and more polished, hitting home that travel writing was usually written after travels themselves had already ended (Wyatt 2021).…”
Section: Recording Materials Mobile Livesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…27 Just as Adam Smyth found in English church wardens' records and financial account books, life-writing and written mobile lives can be found in unexpected places, and often travelled between textual forms, showing signs of processing and editing in between (Smyth 2010). Likewise, travel writing usually traversed across different media from initial notes to the final accounts that were revised, edited, and more polished, hitting home that travel writing was usually written after travels themselves had already ended (Wyatt 2021).…”
Section: Recording Materials Mobile Livesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Travel writings were socially constructed texts that endured numerous editorial interventions. Paying more attention to the 'traveller' in these texts helps place the authorial self in context, at least when we know when the traveller sat down and wrote their texts, and what kinds of resources they had at their disposal (Wyatt 2021).…”
Section: Afterlives Of Travel: Memory Studies and Travel Memoirsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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