The Place of the Royal Society in Victorian Literary Culture

皇家学会在维多利亚文学文化中的地位

• 批准号: AH/I023619/1
• 负责人: John Holmes
• 金额: $ 6.94万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI023619%2F1
• 关键词: Place; Royal; Society; Victorian; Literary

For this project the world's premier scientific learned society, the Royal Society of London, will work with the University of Reading to reveal in detail the role and significance of the Royal Society in Victorian literary culture through research on its own archives, library and publications. The significance of the Royal Society within Enlightenment culture is well known. Recent work, notably Richard Holmes's 'The Age of Wonder', has extended that understanding into the Romantic period. But the place of the Royal Society within Victorian culture remains less well understood. The Royal Society was an important social and cultural hub in the Victorian period. Prominent writers such as Lord Tennyson and Martin Tupper were Fellows, and others such as H. G. Wells struggled to be elected. A number of scientific Fellows were themselves significant authors, including T. H. Huxley, John Lubbock and George Stokes, while others such as John Herschel were keen poets. Foreign writers visited the Society, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' was the most respected scientific journal of the period. Productive work has been done by Bernard Lightman, Alice Jenkins, Ralph O'Connor and others on the dissemination and popularization of science in the Victorian period. But while the contribution of individual scientists such as John Tyndall and Michael Faraday and of institutions such as the Royal Institution are increasingly well known, the Royal Society has not received the attention it deserves. Likewise, while literary scholars including Gillian Beer, George Levine and David Amigoni have shed light on the rhetoric of science writing in this period, the focus has remained largely on the work on Charles Darwin, rather than on other leading scientists of the time, a great many of whom were Fellows of the Royal Society. This project aims to explore and explain the different ways in which the Royal Society contributed to the literary culture of Victorian England in two distinct ways. Firstly, the project will afford a fuller understanding of the role of the Royal Society in the development of scientific prose in the Victorian period. How and how far did the 'Philosophical Transactions' and the 'Proceedings' determine the genre of the scientific paper? What part did their increasingly detailed obituaries play in establishing and shaping the genre of scientific biography? How far did its Fellows use the Royal Society and its publications as a means to introduce scientific ideas to a wider public, or as a forum for discussing the articulation of science, as well as science itself? Secondly, it will enable a better understanding of the place of the Royal Society within the wider literary culture. To what extent and in what ways was it a site for the exchange of ideas between scientists and literary authors? Did it stimulate engagement with science by poets, novelists, essayists and dramatists? What tensions emerged between them? How did those non-scientific writers who were Fellows see their role within the Society, or the Society's relevance to their literary work? And how was the Society itself represented within the creative literature of the period?The majority of these questions will be addressed primarily through research within the Royal Society's own archives, including manuscripts, correspondence, certificates of election, publications and bequests. Work will also be needed on accounts of the Society in the wider literature and the periodical press, and on the writings of Fellows, both literary and scientific. This project will make a very significant contribution to our growing understanding of the relationship between literature and science in the Victorian period. It will help to open up a less well-known section of the Royal Society's archives, to researchers in all fields, b

对于这个项目，全球最重要的科学学会学会，伦敦皇家学会，将与雷丁大学合作，详细介绍皇家学会在维多利亚时代文学文化中的作用和意义，通过研究其自己的档案，图书馆和出版物。皇家学会在启蒙文化中的重要性是众所周知的。最近的工作，特别是理查德·霍尔姆斯（Richard Holmes）的“奇迹时代”，将这种理解扩展到了浪漫时期。但是皇家学会在维多利亚时代文化中的地位仍然不那么理解。皇家学会是维多利亚时代的重要社会和文化中心。诸如坦尼森勋爵和马丁·图珀（Martin Tupper）之类的著名作家是研究员，其他人（例如H. G. Wells）努力当选。许多科学研究员本身就是重要的作家，包括T. H. Huxley，John Lubbock和George Stokes，而John Herschel等其他人则是敏锐的诗人。外国作家访问了包括拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）在内的社会，“皇家学会的哲学交易”是当时最受尊敬的科学杂志。伯纳德·莱特曼（Bernard Lightman），爱丽丝·詹金斯（Alice Jenkins），拉尔夫·奥康纳（Ralph O'Connor）和其他人在维多利亚时代的科学传播和普及进行了生产工作。但是，尽管约翰·廷德尔（John Tyndall）和迈克尔·法拉迪（Michael Faraday）等个人科学家的贡献以及皇家机构等机构的贡献越来越众所周知，但皇家学会尚未得到应有的关注。同样，尽管包括吉利亚啤酒，乔治·莱文（George Levine）和戴维·阿米戈尼（David Amigoni）在内的文学学者揭示了这一时期的科学写作的言论，但重点主要是在查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）的工作上，而不是当时的其他主要科学家，而不是当时的其他主要科学家，但其中许多人是皇家社会的伙伴。该项目旨在探索和解释皇家学会以两种不同的方式为维多利亚时代英格兰文学文化做出贡献的不同方式。首先，该项目将对皇家学会在维多利亚时期的科学散文发展中的作用有更深入的了解。 “哲学交易”和“程序”如何决定科学论文的流派？他们越来越详细的ob告建立和塑造科学传记类型的哪一部分？它的研究员使用皇家学会及其出版物作为一种向更广泛的公众介绍科学思想的手段，或者作为讨论科学表达以及科学本身的论坛？其次，这将使人们能够更好地了解皇家社会在更广泛的文学文化中的位置。它在多大程度上以及以什么方式是在科学家和文学作者之间交流思想的网站？它是否刺激了诗人，小说家，散文家和戏剧家的科学参与？他们之间出现了什么紧张关系？那些是同伴的非科学作家如何看待他们在社会中的作用，或者社会与文学作品的相关性？社会本身如何代表该时期的创意文献？这些问题中的大多数将主要通过皇家学会自己的档案中的研究来解决，包括手稿，信函，选举证书，出版物和遗赠。还需要在更广泛的文学和期刊媒体的社会以及文学和科学著作的著作中进行工作。该项目将为我们对维多利亚时代文学与科学之间的关系的不断增长做出非常重要的贡献。这将有助于向所有领域的研究人员开放皇家学会档案中鲜为人知的部分，b