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.

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构建汉弗莱·戴维的传记形象

这篇论文也是对传记史中有些未被研究的领域的贡献，它讨论了汉弗莱·戴维 (Humphry Davy) 生平的几个简短描述以及他去世后几年出版的三部主要传记。这些是约翰·艾尔顿·帕里斯 (John Ayrton Paris) 的“反传记” (1831) 和戴维的弟弟约翰·戴维 (John Davy) 的两本令人钦佩的传记 (1836 年、1858 年)。通过检查围绕他们的写作和出版的过程，这项研究说明了戴维的传记声誉是如何构建的，他幸存的手稿和相关文件是如何被收集和保存的，从而帮助我们了解他们继续对戴维学术产生的影响。