Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909

罗伯特·伯恩斯：发明传统和保护记忆，1796-1909是一个项目，它在三个层面上运作。在实证层面上，它提供了一个全面的基于网络的目录，以罗伯特·伯恩斯在1909年建立的公共纪念碑，从同一时期的图像选择，结合基于网络的分类，不同类型的伯恩斯相关的物质文化可用于商业或家庭使用。这些数据集将使罗伯特·伯恩斯的声誉传播到文化记忆领域所使用的全部图像和物品首次在一个地方可供研究或咨询。这是一个特别重要的发展，因为伯恩斯是所有诗人中最受纪念的诗人之一，通过实物和公共纪念碑记录他的全部纪念活动将为分析和发展其他作家的类似记录提供宝贵的证据基础。该项目得到了苏格兰伯恩斯博物馆国家信托基金的支持和合作，目前正在谈判获得国内两个广泛的私人收藏的伯恩西亚纳。在理论层面上，该项目将寻求为文学和物质文化之间的关系提供一个模型，讨论纪念方式的选择是否（例如，通过诗人的特定对象或作品）对个人诗歌的声誉或作家的生活方式以及文学和物质文化在其赋予的意义上是分歧还是趋同产生了影响它将寻求提供结果，作为审查使用材料和纪念文化作为对其他作家的接受、声誉和经典的形成影响的基础。在政策层面上，“发明传统和保护记忆”将通过与策展人大卫·霍普斯的合作，为罗伯特·伯恩斯纪念馆（Robert Burns Museumplace Museum）对伯恩斯的诠释做出贡献，该博物馆是世界上最重要的伯恩斯遗址。RBBM正在进行最后的规划和开发，截至2009年1月，最终的2100万英镑预算中有1700万英镑，目前的项目将在RBBM作为一个主要现代旅游场所的结晶的关键阶段提供宝贵的政策投入。伯恩斯对苏格兰经济的价值为1.57亿英镑（2003年的数字），对他的纪念的尖端解释-本身在世界许多地方都是公开可见的-将引起博物馆预计每年10万多名游客的极大兴趣。预计向格拉斯哥博物馆和华兹华斯信托基金会传播研究成果也将对其他场所的解释材料的发展产生宝贵的影响。发明传统和保护记忆将提供一个持久的网络资源，一套学术成果，并通过建立合作协议与更广泛的遗产，文化和旅游业的参与。其方法将包括：通过档案、报纸、照片集和现有的数字和二手资料来源，收集公众纪念活动的全面清单。密集利用档案，以创造一个感的发展委托，筹款和公众的影响伯恩斯纪念活动在特定的实例。iii.设计一个分类的国内对象与伯恩斯。iv考虑伯恩斯的纪念作为一种形式的发明的传统（霍布斯鲍姆和游侠（1983年））和它的使用“组成”的记忆谁是诗人，他代表了什么。

Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909 is a project which operates on three levels. On the empirical level, it provides a comprehensive web-based catalogue of public monuments to Robert Burns worldwide erected by 1909, with a selection of images from the same period, combined with a web-based classification of the different kinds of Burns-related material culture available commercially or for domestic use. These datasets will enable the whole range of images and items used in the transmission of Robert Burns' reputation into the sphere of cultural memory to be available for study or consultation in one place for the first time. This is a particularly important development, because Burns was one of the most commemorated of all poets, and the documentation of the full range of his memorialization through objects and public monuments will provide an invaluable evidence base both for analysis and for the development of similar records of other writers. The project has the support and partnership of the National Trust for Scotland Burns Birthplace Museum and is currently negotiating access to two extensive private collections of domestic Burnsiana.On a theoretical level, the project will seek to provide a model for the relationship between literary and material culture, addressing questions such as whether the choice of means of commemoration (e.g. through particular objects or depictions of the poet) has had an effect on the reputation of individual poems or approaches to the writer's life and whether literary and material culture diverge or converge in the significance they grant the reputation of the poet. It will seek to provide outcomes which can act as a basis for the examination of the use of material and commemorative culture as a formative influence in the reception, reputation and canon of other writers. On a policy level, Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory will contribute, through its work with the curator David Hopes, to the interpretation of Burns at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, the single most important Burns site in the world. The RBBM is in the process of final planning and development with £17M of the final £21M budget raised as of January 2009, and the current project will provide invaluable policy input at a crucial stage in the RBBM's crystallization as a major modern tourist venue. Burns is worth £157M to the Scottish economy (2003 figures), and the cutting-edge interpretation of his memorialization-itself so publicly visible in so many parts of the world-will be of great interest to the combined 100 000+ visitors a year expected at the Museum. It is expected that the dissemination of the research work to Glasgow Museums and to the Wordsworth Trust will also prove invaluable to the development of interpretative material in other venues. Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory will provide a lasting web resource, a set of scholarly outcomes, and an engagement with the wider heritage, cultural and tourist industries through established collaborative agreements. Its methodologies will include:i. The gathering of a comprehensive list of public commemorations through archives, newspapers, photograph collections and existing digital and secondary sources.ii. The intensive use of archives to create a sense of the development of commissioning, fundraising and impact of public Burns commemoration in particular instances.iii. The design of a taxonomy of domestic objects associated with Burns.iv The consideration of Burns' memorialization as a form of invention of tradition (Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983)) and its use to 'compose' memories of who the poet was and what he represented.v. Building on existing research, to establish ways in which material culture may be considered a legitimate part of the reception history of a text or author.