Professor Boyle's Volume 2 now on shortlist for new British Academy Book Prize
Children's imaginations, the destruction of minority languages, and making
sense of politics were 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, had a long list of
fourteen books which included Professor Boyle's Goethe: the Poet and the Age, Volume 2: Revolution
and Renunciation (Clarendon Press, 2000).
The shortlist of six books has now been chosen and this too includes Professor Boyle's Volume 2. 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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