The Stuart Successions Project

王室继承的时刻使人们对君主制的看法和对政治结构的争论变得清晰。在近代早期，这些时刻也产生了大量的作品：主要是颂诗，但也延伸到其他类型，包括小册子、顾问作品和讽刺作品。在1603年到1702年间，英格兰有六位君主加冕，一位护国公被任命。这个跨学科的项目提出，以前所未有的广度和深度的调查来关注这些过渡时刻，将为一个异常动荡和充满活力的政治和文学史世纪带来新的亮点。它将帮助研究人员理解特定的争议，并重新参与一些关于斯图亚特时代政治价值观和文化变化的关键辩论。这个项目的核心任务是定义一种继承写作类型。这个项目是建立在这样一个假设上的，即同时代的人认识并理解这一流派，对它的更大的现代欣赏有望丰富我们对斯图尔特世纪的欣赏。为了实现这一假设，该项目旨在建立一个带注释的在线书目数据库，对主要与继承有关的文本进行编目，并通常在继承后三年内出版。这是以前从未尝试过的，部分原因是相关材料数量庞大；事实上，在随后的几年里，直接涉及权力转移的材料占所有出版物的很大比例。该数据库将作为该领域的地图，对项目团队和未来几代研究人员都有价值。在项目范围内，鉴定过程将作为一系列编辑和解释工作的基础。编辑工作将导致出版一本继承文学选集，并以电子方式和表演方式传播文本。解释性工作，但不受数据库的限制，将产生两种不同的，但重叠的出版物：第一，同步研究，密切分析特定文本和/或历史时刻；其次，历时性研究，使用继承写作作为重新评估整个时期政治价值观和文学实践变化的工具。这项工作将引起许多相关领域的研究人员的注意，为未来的研究制定议程。申请人为该项目带来了丰富的经验和专业知识。PI安德鲁·麦克雷（Andrew McRae）发表过关于斯图亚特早期政治和文学的文章，特别关注讽刺和诽谤，以及对权威文学建构的潜在关注。他参与编辑了网上的“早期斯图尔特·利贝尔”，并负责管理由美国人权委员会资助的项目。凯文·夏普（Kevin Sharpe）是研究早期现代文学和政治的权威。他获得了许多资助和奖学金，最近完成了一项关于早期现代君主制表现的三卷本研究：该项目涉及继承文献的抽样，并提出了有关这些材料的性质和功能的问题。项目团队将包括一名副研究员和两名博士生。此外，PI和CI将招募一些具有国际背景的研究人员，为合编的文集撰写论文。该项目的产出将包括：数据库；15万字的合编散文集；编辑10万字的继承写作选集；两次座谈会，涉及合编卷的撰稿人；若干文章和会议论文；信息丰富的网站；公开发布活动；和两篇博士论文。它还将为资助期后的未来工作奠定基础，包括PI和CI可能出版的专著，以及知识转移活动。

Moments of royal succession crystallize perceptions of monarchy and debates about political structures. In the early modern period, these moments also generated huge quantities of writing: mostly panegyric, but stretching across a range of other genres, including pamphlets, works of counsel, and satires. In the years between 1603 and 1702 in England, six monarchs were crowned and one Protector was installed. This interdisciplinary project proposes that attending to these moments of transition, with a breadth and depth of investigation never before attempted, will throw new light on a singularly turbulent and vibrant century of political and literary history. It will help researchers to make sense of particular controversies, and to engage afresh with some of the key debates about changes in political values and culture across the the Stuart era. At the heart of the project is the task of defining a genre of succession writing. The project is founded on the hypothesis that contemporaries recognized and understood this genre, and that a greater modern appreciation of it promises to enrich our appreciation of the Stuart century. In pursuit of this hypothesis, the project aims to produce an annotated, online bibliographical database, cataloguing texts predominantly concerned with a succession and published, normally, within three years of a succession. This has never before been attempted, partly because of the sheer volume of relevant material; indeed in succession years material directly concerned with the transfer of power accounted for a substantial proportion of all publications. The database will function as a map to the field, of value to the project team and future generations of researchers. Within the project, the process of identification will underpin a range of editorial and interpretative work. The editorial work will lead to the publication of an anthology of succession literature, and to the dissemination of texts electronically and in performance. The interpretative work, informed but not restricted by the database, will produce two distinct, yet overlapping, kinds of publication: firstly, synchronic studies, closely analyzing particular texts and/or historical moments; and secondly, diachronic studies, using succession writing as a vehicle for reassessing changes in political values and literary practice throughout the period. This work will command the attention of researchers across a number of related fields, setting an agenda for future lines of enquiry. The applicants bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the project. The PI, Andrew McRae, has published on politics and literature in the early Stuart period, with a specific focus on satire and libels, and an underlying concern with literary constructions of authority. He co-edited the online 'Early Stuart Libels', and managed the AHRC-funded project that produced it. The CI, Kevin Sharpe, is a leading authority on early modern literature and politics. He has held numerous grants and fellowships, and recently completed a three-volume study of representations of early modern monarchy: a project that involved a sampling of succession literature, and prompted questions about the nature and function of this material. The project team will include an Associate Research Fellow and two PhD students. In addition, the PI and CI will recruit a number of researchers, with international profiles, to produce essays for a co-edited volume. The project's outputs will include: the database; the 150,000-word co-edited volume of essays; an edited 100,000-word anthology of succession writing; two colloquia, involving contributors to the co-edited volume; a number of articles and conference papers; an information-rich web-site; a public launch event; and two PhD dissertations. It will also provide a foundation for future work beyond the period of the grant, icluding likely monograph publications by the PI and CI, and knowledge-transfer activities.