The Stuart Successions Project

斯图尔特继承计划

• 批准号: AH/I027029/1
• 负责人: Andrew McRae
• 金额: $ 58.23万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI027029%2F1
• 关键词: Stuart; Successions; Project

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.

皇家继承的时刻明确了人们对君主制的看法和对政治结构的争论。在现代早期，这些时刻也产生了大量的写作：大多是颂词，但也涉及到一系列其他体裁，包括小册子、顾问作品和讽刺作品。在1603年至1702年间，英格兰有六位君主加冕，一位保护者被安装。这个跨学科的项目提出，参加这些时刻的过渡，与广度和深度的调查从来没有尝试过，将抛出一个异常动荡和充满活力的世纪的政治和文学史的新的光。它将帮助研究人员理解特定的争议，并重新参与有关斯图亚特时代政治价值观和文化变化的一些关键辩论。这个项目的核心是定义一种继承写作的体裁。该项目是建立在假设同时代人认识和理解这一体裁，并认为更大的现代欣赏它的承诺，以丰富我们的欣赏斯图亚特世纪。为实现这一假设，该项目旨在建立一个附有注释的在线书目数据库，将主要与继承有关的文献编目，这些文献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，连续几年，与权力转移直接相关的材料占所有出版物的很大比例。该数据库将起到实地地图的作用，对项目小组和未来几代研究人员都有价值。在该项目范围内，确定进程将成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，并以电子和表演形式传播文本。解释性的工作，通知，但不受数据库的限制，将产生两种不同的，但重叠的出版物：首先，共时研究，密切分析特定的文本和/或历史时刻;其次，历时研究，使用继承写作作为重新评估整个时期的政治价值观和文学实践的变化的工具。这项工作将引起一些相关领域研究人员的注意，为未来的调查路线制定议程。申请人为项目带来了丰富的经验和专业知识。PI，安德鲁·麦克雷，在斯图亚特王朝早期发表了关于政治和文学的文章，特别关注讽刺和诽谤，以及对权威的文学建构的潜在关注。他参与编辑了在线的《早期斯图尔特·利贝尔》，并管理了AHRC资助的项目。CI凯文·夏普是早期现代文学和政治的主要权威。他获得了许多赠款和研究金，最近完成了一项关于早期现代君主制表现的三卷本研究：该项目涉及继承文学的抽样，并引发了有关这种材料的性质和功能的问题。该项目小组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，为合编的一卷撰写论文。该项目的产出将包括：数据库;合编的150 000字的论文集;合编的100 000字的继任论文集;有合编论文集撰稿人参加的两次座谈会;若干文章和会议文件;一个信息丰富的网站;一次公开启动活动;两篇博士论文。它还将为赠款期后的未来工作提供基础，包括PI和CI可能的专著出版物以及知识转移活动。

项目成果

Doubtful and dangerous - The question of succession in late Elizabethan England

可疑而危险——伊丽莎白时代晚期英格兰的继承问题

• DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719086069.003.0003
• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Kewes P

Politicising Praise: Panegyric and the Accession of Queen Anne

政治化的赞美：颂词和安妮女王的登基

• DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12153
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: HONE J

Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations

斯图尔特继承文学：时刻与转变

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Kewes P

The earlier Elizabethan succession question revisited

重新审视早期伊丽莎白时代的继承问题

• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: The question of succession in late Elizabethan England
• 作者: Doran S.

The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne

结局：安妮女王即位时的文学和政党政治

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Hone Joseph