Sincerity: On Victorian Poetry, Literary Method, and Trust

真诚：论维多利亚时代的诗歌、文学方法和信任

• 批准号: AH/H006435/1
• 负责人: Jane Wright
• 金额: $ 2.98万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH006435%2F1
• 关键词: Sincerity; Victorian; Poetry; Literary; Method

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.

我的研究绘制了维多利亚时期关于真诚的思想与维多利亚时期诗歌和批评相关的演变图，并集中于那个时期的六位诗人(丁尼生、布朗宁、克劳夫、阿诺德、C.G.罗塞蒂和霍普金斯)的工作。它探讨了维多利亚时代的一系列作家对表达方法的强调，并评估了对这种强调方法的更好理解如何教会我们如何构思真诚。在维多利亚时期，“真诚”一词的可能词源受到了激烈的猜测，而文献学家提出的可能的词根揭示了真诚给维多利亚时代带来的各种文学问题和文化关切。我的作品将研究这种变化的词源学和文学方法，除了这种语言学努力之外，维多利亚时代的作家们通过他们真诚的全神贯注而发展起来的文学方法，以展示这些方法是什么，以及它们如何以及为什么在维多利亚时代的诗歌和批评中特别地演变。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，我的作品将分析这些作家如何通过一系列创造性的语言形式以及文化和批评性辩论来转变早期关于真诚的观念。它还将解释这种文学方法对我们今天真诚观念的重要影响。AHRC的研究假期间将用来完成一本题为《真诚：论维多利亚时期的诗歌、文学方法和信任》的专著。这将需要写出五章中的两章和结论：第二章：《隐喻的隐喻：勃朗宁》(12,000)第四章：《阿诺德通信》(12,000)尾声：‘你不能被文字吓倒……’(5,000)在布里斯托尔大学授予的研究假期间，我将写完序言和其他三章(1：‘丁尼生的承诺’，3：‘克劳夫的特殊形式的真诚’，5：‘霍普金斯，罗塞蒂，和最初的真诚’)，外加两份相关出版物(《霍普金斯的原始真诚》和《丁尼生的国王田园诗中的不真诚誓言》)，而另一篇文章将与读者分享(《知道单词：马修·阿诺德和文学知识》)。最后这篇文章，以及我应邀发表的一篇论文(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，从而导致在研究假期间成功完成专著。在此期间，与这本专著相关的其他成果包括一本关于阿诺德的书和一篇关于罗塞蒂的论文。未来的合作项目包括由弗吉尼亚大学出版社出版的一期维多利亚诗歌(关于马修·阿诺德的作品)的客座编辑，以及计划在2012年布朗宁诞辰200周年时举行的关于布朗宁的国际会议，这将进一步产生一本文集。这本专著将主要有助于了解维多利亚时期诗歌的美学和情感工作，以及最近该领域关于诗歌形式的讨论，以及我们对真诚的历史及其与文学语言的关系的理解，在21世纪初，人们对真诚的兴趣经历了新的变化。此外，它还将对从事许多相互关联的领域的学者、研究生和本科生受众具有价值，这些领域包括浪漫主义、维多利亚和现代主义文学、思想史、文化史、诗歌、诗学、批评、读者反应理论、哲学和美学。