La Belle Anglaise Duchesse Luise Dorothea of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg. The Book Collector as Mediator of English Culture.

萨克森-哥达-阿尔滕堡的美丽英国女公爵路易斯·多萝西娅。

• 批准号: 528354677
• 负责人: Dr. Gabriele Ball
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar Kirchengeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/528354677?language=en
• 关键词: La; Belle; Anglaise; Duchesse; Luise

Duchess Luise Dorothea von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1710-1767) strongly influenced political and cultural life at the court of Gotha in eighteenth-century Germany. She is rightly acclaimed an irenic supporter of science and the arts. As such, she is one of a number of princesses who shaped Early Modern Europe culturally and politically, not only with their own works on education and their membership in societies, but also through their networking in the fields of philosophy and aesthetics. Their impact on political and social life can be “read” from their book collections, but in no case is this more true than that of the Duchess. Her private collection of 3600 books represents not only the largest woman’s library of the fourteen private collections at the court of Gotha, but is also more extensive than that of her husband, Friedrich III. Given her francophilia and her substantial correspondence with Voltaire and others, this collection has previously been considered to be a “French” one. Surprisingly, though, there are about 100 English authors (some of them women) and a number of prints, revealing an interest in English, Scottish, Irish, American or Indian affairs. Not only do moral or philosophical works, like those by George Berkeley, Ralph Cudworth, Anthony Collins or Francis Hutcheson figure prominently – an inclination discovered some time ago —, but also publications from every area of the arts. Apart from her preference for belles lettres, one finds English journals and encyclopedias, also books on politics, religion, history, science and travel, just to name a few genres. This project aims to reconstruct and analyze systematically the „Bibliotheca Anglicana“ as part of the Duchess’ entire collection in order to demonstrate its contextual significance. Initially, the practices of cultural transfer will be considered, concentrating, in this case, on the more complex trilateral mediation via French. Next, attention will be directed to the exceptional nature of this collection e. g. its inclusion of a significant number of English women writers in the sections on Belles Lettres and History. Finally, the research will focus on the acquisition practice and the social network made visible through the books. This will allow for far-reaching conclusions about the role Luise Dorothea played in this “living library”. The twofold result will take the form of a printed monograph and a digital presentation of (every item of) the „Bibliotheca Anglicana“ (by means of the library reconstruction tool LibReTo). It will provide valuable research opportunities for projects on Early Modern Europe, not only in the areas of library research and digital humanities, gender and nobility studies, but also, indeed especially, in the area of transcultural studies.

路易丝·多萝西娅·冯·萨克森-哥达-阿尔滕堡公爵夫人(1710-1767)对18世纪德国哥达宫廷的政治和文化生活产生了重大影响。她理所当然地被誉为科学和艺术的铁杆支持者。因此，她是许多在文化和政治上塑造了早期现代欧洲的公主之一，不仅通过她们自己的教育作品和她们在社会中的成员身份，而且通过她们在哲学和美学领域的网络。他们对政治和社会生活的影响可以从他们的藏书中读出，但这一点在任何情况下都不会比公爵夫人的影响更真实。她的3600本私人藏书不仅是哥达宫廷14本私人藏书中最大的女性藏书，而且比她的丈夫弗里德里希三世的藏书更广泛。考虑到她的亲法情结以及她与伏尔泰和其他人的大量书信往来，这些藏书以前一直被认为是一本“法国”藏书。然而，令人惊讶的是，书中有大约100位英国作家(其中一些是女性)和一些印刷品，显示出他们对英格兰、苏格兰、爱尔兰、美国或印度事务的兴趣。不仅乔治·伯克利(George Berkeley)、拉尔夫·库德沃斯(Ralph Cudworth)、安东尼·柯林斯(Anthony Collins)或弗朗西斯·哈奇森(Francis Hutcheson)的道德或哲学作品占据了突出地位--这是一段时间之前发现的倾向--而且艺术的各个领域的出版物也是如此。除了她对美人信件的偏爱外，人们还可以找到英文期刊和百科全书，还有关于政治、宗教、历史、科学和旅游的书籍，仅举几个体裁。该项目旨在系统地重建和分析作为公爵夫人整个藏品一部分的《英国图书馆》，以展示其背景意义。首先，将考虑文化转移的做法，在这种情况下，集中在更复杂的通过法语进行的三方调解。接下来，我们将关注这本文集的特殊性质，例如，它将相当数量的英国女作家收录在关于美人和历史的部分。最后，研究将重点放在收购实践和通过书籍展现的社交网络上。这将为路易丝·多萝西娅在这个“活的图书馆”中所扮演的角色得出深远的结论。这一双重成果将以印刷专著和“英美图书馆”(借助于图书馆重建工具LibReTo)(每一项)的数字展示的形式出现。它将为关于早期现代欧洲的项目提供宝贵的研究机会，不仅在图书馆研究和数字人文、性别和贵族研究领域，而且确实特别是在跨文化研究领域。