Professor Boyle's Volume 2 on long list for new British Academy Book Prize
Children's imaginations, the destruction of minority languages, and making
sense of politics are among the topics covered in the long list for the
British Academy Book Prize 2001, it was announced recently.
The prize, which aims to celebrate the best of accessible scholarly
writing within the humanities and social sciences, has a long list of
fourteen books which includes Professor Boyle's Goethe: the Poet and the Age, Volume 2: Revolution
and Renunciation (Clarendon Press, 2000).
The shortlist will be announced on November 30, 2001 and the winning book will be
announced at an award ceremony at the British Academy, London on December 19, 2001.
The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national
academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is an independent
learned society which aims, among the disciplines it promotes, to represent
the interests of scholarship nationally and internationally and to promote
understanding of research and scholarship.
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