A History of Private Life

私人生活史

• 批准号: AH/G017131/1
• 负责人: Amanda Vickery
• 金额: $ 8.31万
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG017131%2F1
• 关键词: History; Private; Life

A History of Private Life' will be a landmark 30 part radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Autumn 2009. It popularizes Amanda Vickery's research at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, bringing new scholarly findings and rare archival material to the widest possible public. A commitment to 'intelligent argument' on the part of BBC Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer and a desire to report from the research frontier has led the channel to commission the series. 'A History of Private Life' will unlock the front door of the Englishman's castle to peer into the privacies of life at home over the last 400 years, from the Stuarts to the Second World War. Who has not wandered down an urban street at dusk, glancing through the front windows, wondering about the lives behind? Visiting historic houses is often listed second only to gardening as the favourite leisure activity of the British. When the 1901 census for England and Wales went online in 2002 allowing the curious to find out who had lived at their address a century ago, it had 30 million hits a day, every day for its first week. The server crashed. Curiosity about the domestic lives of others is intense.Homes promise security, retreat, rest, warmth, food and the basis for both a family life and for full participation in social life. A drawing of a recognizable house with strong walls and curling smoke is a sign for psychologists of a secure childhood. But it is not all delicious casseroles and piano practice behind those yellow curtains, of course, for cruelty begins at home, chaos often reigns, and ceremonies involve work. Nevertheless, the emotion freighted to the very word 'home' testifies to our continued longing for a place of supreme safety. Home-made, home-grown, home-cooked are all promises of true satisfaction. The acute sense of belonging felt by Mole for his dulce domum in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows resonates with us still. The series recreates the spaces and boundaries which shaped domesticity, the emotions and power relationships which animated it, the hidden labour which sustained it, and the creativity which adorned it. 'A History of Private Life' aims to drag domestic life out of the closet. The story it tells stretches across four centuries.Traditionally, the house was a universal metaphor for the person and the body. In seventeenth-century popular belief, witches attacked the house through the windows, doorways, chimneys and hearth, just as demons entered the body through its orifices. Fires were said to cackle and blaze when a wizard passed the hearth because the soul of the house was in peril. The household was seen as a microcosm of the state: husbands were to govern wives, masters and mistresses to rule servants, and parents to discipline children. Adult male householders were the top of the tree, yet households could not run without a powerful female administrator at the helm. 'Commonly shrews are good housewives' reasoned an old proverb, acknowledging the tension between proficient housewifery and subordination. The Georgians celebrated the art of domestic life in paintings, novels, journalism and sermons. The rise of tea drinking transformed the interiors and domestic rituals of everyone with a little surplus to spend. The cult of visiting prized open the doors of the middle-class town house.The Victorians were devoted to their well-upholstered villas and terraces, promoting the myth that home was a private sphere, sealed off from the sins of commerce, where wives radiated virtue, and men could refresh themselves after a hard day in the real world. Yet the gentleman's club still lured bachelors who could not submit to the suffocations of the crimson parlour.By the twentieth century, it was a clean and cosy modern domesticity that flourished in the inter-war suburbs, where the wireless played "just Molly and Me, Baby makes three, I'm happy in My Blue Heaven".

《私人生活史》将于2009年秋季在英国广播公司第四电台播出，是一部具有里程碑意义的30集广播连续剧。它推广了阿曼达维克里在美国人权委员会国内内政研究中心的研究，为尽可能广泛的公众带来了新的学术发现和罕见的档案材料。英国广播公司第四广播电台的负责人马克·达马泽（Mark Damazer）致力于"智能论证"，并希望从研究前沿进行报道，这使得该频道委托制作了该系列节目。《私人生活史》将打开英国人城堡的前门，窥视从斯图亚特王朝到第二次世界大战的400年来英国人的私人生活。谁没有在黄昏时分漫步在城市的街道上，透过前面的窗户瞥一眼，想知道后面的生活？参观历史建筑通常被列为仅次于园艺的英国人最喜欢的休闲活动。当1901年英格兰和威尔士的人口普查在2002年上网时，好奇的人可以找到世纪前谁住在他们的地址，它每天有3000万次点击，第一周每天都有。服务器崩溃了。对他人家庭生活的好奇心是强烈的，家庭承诺安全、静修、休息、温暖、食物，以及家庭生活和充分参与社会生活的基础。一幅有着坚固墙壁和卷曲烟雾的可识别房屋的图画是心理学家童年安全的标志。当然，在那些黄色的窗帘后面，并不全是美味的砂锅菜和钢琴练习，因为残酷始于家庭，混乱往往占主导地位，仪式涉及工作。然而，“家”这个词所承载的情感证明了我们对一个最安全的地方的持续渴望。自制的，土生土长的，家常的都是真正满足的承诺。肯尼思·格雷厄姆的《柳树风》中鼹鼠对他的杜尔塞圆顶的强烈归属感至今仍与我们产生共鸣。这部电视剧再现了塑造家庭生活的空间和边界、使之活跃起来的情感和权力关系、维持家庭生活的隐性劳动以及装饰家庭生活的创造力。《私人生活史》旨在将家庭生活从壁橱中拉出来。它讲述的故事跨越了四个世纪。传统上，房子是人和身体的普遍隐喻。在17世纪的流行信仰中，女巫通过窗户、门口、烟囱和壁炉攻击房子，就像恶魔通过身体的孔进入身体一样。据说，当巫师经过壁炉时，火就会咯咯地燃烧起来，因为房子的灵魂处于危险之中。家庭被视为国家的缩影：丈夫管理妻子，主人和情妇管理仆人，父母管教孩子。成年男性户主是树的顶端，但如果没有一个强大的女性管理者掌舵，家庭就无法运转。一句古老的谚语说：“一般的泼妇都是好主妇。”这句话承认了熟练的家庭主妇和从属关系之间的紧张关系。格鲁吉亚人在绘画、小说、新闻和布道中赞美家庭生活的艺术。喝茶的兴起改变了每个人的内部和家庭仪式，他们有一点盈余可以花。对来访的狂热追捧打开了中产阶级城镇住宅的大门，他们对装饰精美的别墅和露台情有独钟，宣扬着这样一种神话：家是一个私人领域，与商业的罪恶隔绝，妻子们在这里散发着美德，男人们在真实的世界里辛苦了一天之后，可以在这里恢复精神。然而，绅士俱乐部仍然吸引着那些无法忍受深红色客厅令人窒息的单身汉。到了世纪，这是一种干净舒适的现代住宅，在两次世界大战之间的郊区蓬勃发展，那里的无线电播放着"只有莫莉和我，宝贝是三个，我在我的蓝色天堂很快乐"。