Travel Writing in Victorian Periodicals: Media Forms and Cultural Work

维多利亚时代期刊的游记写作：媒体形式和文化工作

• 批准号: 496202168
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Barbara Korte
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Englisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/496202168?language=en
• 关键词: Travel; Writing; Victorian; Periodicals; Media

The project is a contribution to British cultural studies and investigates the representation of travel in general-interest periodicals for the period 1850–1900, when Britain played a leading role in the rise of tourism and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market. This nexus between travel and periodicals culture has been largely ignored because travel writing research has tended to focus on book publications. The project aims to demonstrate how Victorian periodicals configured the representation of travel according to their media logic, and how this media-specific representation went hand in hand with cultural functions (or cultural work). The project proposes that general-interest periodicals helped to inscribe travel into Victorian culture and to familiarise their readers with ideas of travel, its discourses and practices. Two media-specific aspects are of central importance here: firstly, general-interest periodicals typically presented mixed content and enlaced travel with other themes of Victorian culture; secondly, periodicals addressed different segments of the reading audience. The Victorian interest in travel can thus be explored with a wider social range and a more fine-grained social classification than for travel books. The project identifies a special importance of periodicals for mediating travel to people whose opportunities for travel were limited by economic and/or social restraints. Among other factors, this was enabled by the fact that periodicals can represent travel in single articles – a small form suitable for depicting small (cheap and modest) forms of travel. The project investigates a corpus of 7 periodicals for different audiences, with established methods and concepts of cultural periodical studies. It develops a new perspective for the study of nineteenth-century travel culture and travel writing, but it can also serve as a historical foil for more recent constellations of travel and everyday media such as television and today’s social media.

该项目是对英国文化研究的贡献，并调查了1850-1900年期间英国在旅游业兴起和期刊市场迅速扩张中发挥主导作用的旅游期刊的代表性。旅行和期刊文化之间的这种联系在很大程度上被忽视了，因为旅行写作研究往往集中在书籍出版物上。该项目旨在展示维多利亚时代的期刊如何根据他们的媒体逻辑配置旅行的表现形式，以及这种特定于媒体的表现方式如何与文化功能（或文化工作）密切相关。该项目提出，大众兴趣期刊有助于将旅行融入维多利亚文化，并使读者熟悉旅行的概念、话语和实践。在这里，两个媒体特定方面至关重要：首先，一般兴趣期刊通常呈现混合内容，并与维多利亚文化的其他主题相结合；其次，期刊针对不同的读者群。因此，与旅游书籍相比，维多利亚时代对旅行的兴趣可以用更广泛的社会范围和更精细的社会分类来探索。该项目确定了期刊对那些旅行机会受到经济和/或社会限制的人的特别重要性。在其他因素中，这是由于期刊可以用一篇文章来描述旅行——一种适合描述小型（廉价和适度）旅行形式的小形式。本项目调查了7种不同受众的期刊语料库，建立了文化期刊研究的方法和概念。它为研究19世纪的旅行文化和旅行写作提供了一个新的视角，但它也可以作为最近的旅行星座和日常媒体（如电视和今天的社交媒体）的历史陪衬。