Sincerity: On Victorian Poetry, Literary Method, and Trust

我的研究绘制了维多利亚时期关于真诚的思想的演变，与维多利亚时期的诗歌和批评有关，并集中在这一时期的六位诗人的作品上（丁尼生，布朗宁，克拉夫，阿诺德，C。G. Rossetti和霍普金斯）。它探讨了一系列维多利亚时代的作家对表达方法的强调，并评估了更好地理解这种对方法的强调可以教会我们如何构思真诚。在维多利亚时期，“真诚”一词可能的词源受到了激烈的猜测，而语言学家提出的可能的根源证明了真诚对维多利亚人提出的各种文学问题和文化问题的揭示。我的工作将检查这两个不断变化的词源和文学方法，除了这样的语言学的努力，维多利亚时代的作家通过他们对真诚的专注发展，以显示这些方法是什么，以及如何和为什么他们在维多利亚诗歌和批评，特别是演变。通过关注维多利亚时代诗人和批评家写作的正式细节和声音记录，我的工作将分析这些作者通过一系列创造性的语言形式以及文化和批评辩论来改变早期关于真诚的想法的方式。它还将解释这种文学方法对我们今天的真诚观念的重要影响。AHRC研究休假期间将用于完成题为“真诚：维多利亚诗歌，文学方法和信任”的专著。这就需要写出五章中的两章，以及一个结论：第二章：“一个隐喻的隐喻：布朗宁”（12，000）第四章：“阿诺德式的通信”（12，000）结尾：“你不能被文字吓倒.在此之前，在布里斯托大学授予的一段研究假期中，我将撰写导言和其他三章（1：“丁尼生的承诺”，3：“克拉夫的真诚的特殊形式”，和5：“霍普金斯，罗塞蒂，和原始的真诚”），加上两个相关的出版物（'霍普金斯的原始真诚'和'发誓不真诚丁尼生的田园诗国王'），而另一篇文章将与读者（'知道的话：马修阿诺德和文学知识'）。最后这篇文章，以及我受邀发表的一篇论文（在剑桥，关于布朗宁），将提供临时反馈，并构成上述章节的草稿，从而使我在研究休假期间顺利完成这部专著。在此期间，与专著有关的其他产出包括一本关于阿诺德的书和一篇关于罗塞蒂的论文。今后将根据这项工作开展的合作项目包括拟议由弗吉尼亚大学出版社出版的《维多利亚诗歌》客座编辑问题（关于马修·阿诺德的作品），以及一个关于“布朗宁的举止”的国际会议，计划在2012年他诞辰200周年之际举行，这将进一步导致一卷散文集。这本专著将主要有助于了解维多利亚诗歌的美学和情感运作，最近在该领域对诗歌形式的讨论，以及我们对真诚历史及其与文学语言关系的理解，这种兴趣在世纪的最初几年里得到了恢复。它也将是有价值的学术，研究生和本科生观众工作在一些相互关联的领域，包括浪漫主义，维多利亚时代和现代主义文学，思想史，文化史，诗歌，诗学，批评，读者反应理论，哲学和美学。

My research charts the evolution of Victorian ideas about sincerity in relation to Victorian poetry and criticism, and focuses on the work of six poets central to the period (Tennyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold, C. G. Rossetti, and Hopkins). It explores the emphasis placed by a range of Victorian writers on the method of expression, and assesses what a better understanding of that emphasis on method has to teach us about how to conceive of sincerity. Possible etymologies for the word 'sincere' were subject to energetic speculation during the Victorian period, and the possible roots that philologists came up with prove revealing of the kinds of literary questions and cultural concerns that sincerity raises for the Victorians. My work will examine both this shifting etymology and the literary methods that, alongside such philological endeavours, Victorian writers developed through their preoccupation with sincerity, in order to show what those methods are and how and why they evolve within Victorian poetry and criticism in particular. By attending to the formal details and vocal register of Victorian poets' and critics' writing, my work will analyse the ways in which these authors' transform earlier ideas about sincerity through a range of creative linguistic forms and cultural and critical debates. It will also explain the significant bearing that such literary methods have on our ideas of sincerity today.The period of AHRC research leave would be used to complete a monograph entitled 'Sincerity: On Victorian Poetry, Literary Method, and Trust'. This would require writing up two out of five chapters, and a conclusion:Chapter 2: 'A Metaphor's Metaphor: Browning' (12,000)Chapter 4: 'Arnoldian Correspondence' (12,000)Coda: 'You must not be frightened by words...' (5,000)Prior to this, in a period of research leave awarded by the University of Bristol, I will have written the introduction and the other three chapters (1: 'Tennyson's Promise', 3: 'Clough's Particular Forms of Sincerity', and 5: 'Hopkins, Rossetti, and Original Sincerity'), plus two related publications ('Hopkins's Original Sincerity' and 'Vowing insincerity in Tennyson's Idylls of the King'), while another article will be with readers ('Knowing Words: Matthew Arnold and Literary Knowledge'). This last article, and a paper I have been invited to give (in Cambridge, on Browning), will provide interim feedback and constitute drafts for the chapters listed above, thus leading to the successful completion of the monograph within the period of research leave. Further outputs related to the monograph during this period include a book chapter on Arnold and a paper on Rossetti.Collaborative projects to grow out of this work in the future include a proposed guest-edited issue of Victorian Poetry, published by University of Virginia Press (on Matthew Arnold's work), and an international conference on 'Browning's Manner', planned for the bicentenary of his birth in 2012, which would further result in a volume of collected essays.The monograph will contribute primarily to knowledge of the aesthetic and affective workings of Victorian poems, to recent discussions of poetic form in the field, and to our understanding of the history of sincerity and its relation to literary language, interest in which last has undergone a renewal in the early years of the twenty-first century. It will additionally be of value to scholarly, postgraduate, and undergraduate audiences working across a number of interconnected fields, including Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature, history of ideas, cultural history, poetry, poetics, criticism, reader response theory, philosophy, and aesthetics.