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Constructing Humphry Davy’s Biographical Image

James, F; (2019) Constructing Humphry Davy’s Biographical Image. Ambix , 66 (2-3) pp. 214-238. 10.1080/00026980.2019.1620986. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper, which is also a contribution to the somewhat understudied area of the history of biography, discusses a couple of short accounts of Humphry Davy’s life and the three major biographies published in the years following his death. These were an “anti-biography” by John Ayrton Paris (1831) and two admiring biographies by Davy’s younger brother John Davy (1836, 1858). By examining the processes surrounding their writing and publication, this study illustrates how Davy’s biographical reputation was constructed, how his surviving manuscripts and related documents came to be collected and preserved and so help us understand the effects they continue to exert on Davy scholarship.

Type: Article
Title: Constructing Humphry Davy’s Biographical Image
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2019.1620986
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2019.1620986
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074493
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