Female Writers in the Varnhagen Collection – Letters, Works, Relations

Varnhagen藏品保存在克拉科的雅盖隆图书馆，是一批信件、文学手稿、日记、笔记等的集合，涵盖了18世纪末至19世纪中期欧洲的文学、文化和政治生活。除了贝蒂娜·冯·阿尼姆或拉赫尔·瓦恩亨等知名作家之外，还有一些鲜为人知或被遗忘的女性作家在这本书中被重新发现。通常，他们没有被纳入当前文学研究的经典，但他们在同时代人中得到了认可，并在文学生活中发挥了重要作用。他们中的一些人所写的手稿将是这一项目的主题，该项目旨在对选定的信件语料库进行文献学描述、表述和分析，包括探索与这些文件有关的材料和信件。这项研究的基础是一份约2400页的手稿，其中大部分是信件，由八位选定的作者撰写：夏洛特·冯·阿赫菲尔特、赫尔米娜·冯·谢齐、阿玛利亚·冯·伊姆霍夫、阿玛利亚·肖佩、范妮·塔诺、卡罗琳·冯·沃尔特曼、卡罗琳·德拉莫特·福奎和阿玛利亚·冯·沃伊特。除了书信关系，它们还通过文学领域的各种活动相互联系，可以被视为不同文化之间的调解人(例如，德国、法国、波兰之间)。选定的手稿将与当时书信学、文化、科学和社会网络中的所有参考文献一起进行审查。此外，该项目将审查Varnhagen收藏中这一语料库的更广泛的背景以及它与其他相关收藏的相互联系。这些手稿将根据上述作者的出版物进行评估，并以(1)印刷版(选定字母的附注版本)和(2)数字平台上的数字版本(所有字母)的形式呈现，提供(3)额外的传记和书目信息，链接到选定作者出版物的数字表示和相应的数字项目。关于Varnhagen文集的这一尝试还没有进行，这将为进一步的学术研究开辟新的视角，无论是在文学的社会方面的研究领域(包括妇女的文化和文学解放，文学场的功能)，还是在诗学研究领域(作品和作者概念的发展)，以及在编辑文献学领域。结果将另外汇编成一卷文章(4)。将印刷版和数字版结合起来，并探索有关Varnhagen藏品明确定义的部分的具体方面，可以被视为一个试点项目，可能会在这一藏品的档案和学术工作进程中开启一个新的阶段，特别是在双边合作范围内。

The Varnhagen collection which is preserved in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków is a collection of letters, literary manuscripts, journals, notes etc. covering the literary, cultural and political life of Europe from the end of the 18th century until the mid-19th century. Alongside well-known names like Bettine von Arnim or Rahel Varnhagen there are less known or forgotten women authors to be rediscovered in this collection. Usually, they are not included in the canon of current literary studies but they gained recognition among their contemporaries and played an important role in the literary life. The manuscripts written by some of them will be the subject of this project which is aimed at philological description, representation and analysis of the selected corpus of letters, including the exploration of materials and letters related to those documents. The basis of the study is a manuscript body of about 2,400 sheets, most of them letters, written by eight selected authors: Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chézy, Amalia von Imhoff, Amalia Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué and Amalia von Voigt. Apart from the epistolary relations, they were interconnected by varied activities in the literary field, and can be seen as mediators between cultures (e.g. between Germany, France, Poland). The selected body of manuscripts is to be examined with all its references within the epistolary, cultural, scientific and social networks of that time. Furthermore, the project will examine the wider context of this corpus within the Varnhagen collection as well as its interconnections with other relevant collections. The manuscripts will be evaluated with regard to publications of the above named authors and presented as (1) a printed volume (annotated edition of selected letters) and (2) a digital edition (all letters) on a digital platform providing (3) additional biographical and bibliographical information, links to digital representations of publications of the selected authors and to corresponding digital projects. Such an attempt has not yet been undertaken with regard to the Varnhagen collection, and will open new perspectives for further academic research, both in the field of studies on social aspects of literature (including cultural and literary emancipation of women, functioning of the literary field) and poetological studies (development of concepts of work and authorship), as well as in the field of edition philology. The results will be additionally assembled in a volume of articles (4). The combination of the printed and digital edition together with exploring the specific aspects concerning the clearly defined section of the Varnhagen collection can be seen as a pilot project which may open a new stage in the process of archival and academic work on this collection, especially within the bilateral cooperation.