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Representing ruins in English Renaissance literature: Empire, identity and the legacy of the English Reformation, c.1530-c.1660

代表英国文艺复兴文学中的废墟：帝国、身份和英国宗教改革的遗产，c.1530-c.1660

基本信息

批准号：
AH/L008866/1
负责人：
Stewart Mottram
金额：
$ 10.79万
依托单位：
University of Hull
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL008866%2F1
关键词：
Representing ruins English Renaissance literature

项目摘要

Ruins - the material remains of decayed buildings, cities, and cultures - have been a recurrent theme in the art and literature of Western Europe since at least the fall of the Roman Empire, and in the early modern period Roman ruins inspired an outpouring of poems and paintings across France, Italy, and the Low Countries. Britain's experience of ruins in this period was highly distinctive, however, defined less by Roman ruins than by the Roman Catholic ruins of the 650 abbeys suppressed during the English Reformation in the 1530s. The Dissolution of the Monasteries was the defining event for representations of ruins in English literature, its significance reflected in the titles of later works like Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' (1798-9) and Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' (1798). Yet while ruins are widely acknowledged as an important motif in Gothic and Romantic literatures, their significance for our understanding of English Renaissance literature has been largely overlooked. There has been some critical recognition of ruins in writing by Spenser and Shakespeare, but no book-length study charting their significance in literature across the early modern period. This project offers an in-depth assessment of this underexplored topic, investigating how and why ruins were represented in English Renaissance literature within the long century following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. While it acknowledges the influence on English literature of French and Italian models for representing Roman ruins, it also argues for the distinctiveness of England's experience of the protestant Reformation and its impact on English literary representations of ruins. Critics have argued that ruins in English Renaissance literature reflect the antiquarian interests of this period. But ruins were more than a window onto the past; they were also a mirror reflecting the future fate of the present, their fragility a reminder of the decline and fall of civilisations. It is as a comment on the vanity of early modern imperial endeavour that the French Renaissance poet Joachim Du Bellay read the ruins of Rome's past in the mid-sixteenth century, and in this project I trace the translation of this perspective to the particular context of protestant England and its own self-image as an empire in the early modern period. In ruins, the project reads a radical undercurrent in English Renaissance writing that questions and critiques the constructs of empire it appears to support. The project brings this approach to ruins into dialogue with current critical debates about the mechanics of British state-formation under the Tudors and Stuarts, arguing against a stream of recent criticism that sees English Renaissance literature as largely supportive of England's imperial ambitions over Britain and Ireland. Its findings will make a significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding of both English literature and English identity, its focus on ruins revealing sites of resistance in literature to England's imperial ideology in the early modern period. The project will be based at the University of Hull, where the Andrew Marvell Centre offers an established framework for interdisciplinary research in the medieval and early modern periods, and where significant archival resources on Marvell are housed at the Hull History Centre. Marvell is a poet and politician with lifelong connections to Hull, and his relationship to the medieval monastic ruins of Hull and Yorkshire is a key focus for the project. Alongside the monograph 'Renaissance literatures of ruin: Spenser to Marvell', the project's findings will be disseminated through a journal article, conference paper and academic conference on Marvell, and through a school session, public lecture and the public exhibition 'Marvell and medieval Hull', produced in partnership with the Hull History Centre, and in collaboration with the leading Marvell expert, Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton).

废墟--腐朽的建筑物、城市和文化的物质遗迹--至少从罗马帝国灭亡以来，就一直是西欧艺术和文学中反复出现的主题。在近代早期，罗马废墟激发了法国、意大利和低地国家大量的诗歌和绘画。然而，这一时期英国的废墟经历非常独特，与其说是罗马的废墟，不如说是16世纪30年代英国宗教改革期间被镇压的650座修道院的罗马天主教废墟。修道院的解体是英国文学中废墟描写的标志性事件，其重要性反映在奥斯汀的《诺桑觉寺修道院》（1798- 1799）和华兹华斯的《丁登修道院》（1798）等后期作品的标题中。然而，尽管废墟被广泛认为是哥特式和浪漫主义文学中的一个重要主题，但它们对我们理解英国文艺复兴文学的重要意义却在很大程度上被忽视了。在斯宾塞和莎士比亚的作品中，对废墟有一些批判性的认识，但没有一本书的篇幅来描述它们在现代早期文学中的意义。这个项目提供了一个深入的评估，这个未充分探索的主题，调查如何以及为什么废墟在英国文艺复兴时期的文学表现在漫长的世纪内解散的修道院在1530年代。虽然它承认影响英语文学的法国和意大利模式代表罗马废墟，它也认为英国的新教改革的经验和它的影响，英语文学的废墟表示的独特性。评论家们认为，英国文艺复兴时期文学中的废墟反映了这一时期的古物兴趣。但废墟不仅仅是一扇通往过去的窗户，它们也是一面镜子，反映了现在的未来命运，它们的脆弱提醒着文明的衰落和衰落。法国文艺复兴时期的诗人约阿希姆·杜·贝莱（Joachim Du Bellay）对16世纪中期罗马过去的废墟进行了解读，以此作为对早期现代帝国努力的虚荣心的评论。在这个项目中，我追溯了这种观点在新教英格兰的特定背景下的翻译，以及它在早期现代时期作为帝国的自我形象。在废墟中，该项目在英国文艺复兴时期的写作中读出了一股激进的暗流，质疑和批评它似乎支持的帝国结构。该项目将这种对废墟的研究方法与当前关于都铎王朝和斯图亚特王朝时期英国国家形成机制的批判性辩论进行了对话，反对最近的一系列批评，这些批评认为英国文艺复兴时期的文学在很大程度上支持了英国对不列颠和爱尔兰的帝国野心。它的发现将为我们对英国文学和英国身份的认识和理解做出重大贡献，它的重点是揭示现代早期文学中对英国帝国意识形态的抵抗的遗址。该项目将设在船体大学，安德鲁·马尔维尔中心为中世纪和近代早期的跨学科研究提供了一个既定的框架，而马尔维尔的重要档案资源则存放在船体历史中心。马尔维尔是一位诗人和政治家，与船体有着终生的联系，他与船体和约克郡中世纪修道院遗址的关系是该项目的一个关键焦点。除了专著“文艺复兴时期的废墟文献：斯宾塞到马维尔”之外，该项目的研究结果还将通过关于马尔维尔的期刊文章、会议论文和学术会议，以及通过与船体历史中心合作并与马尔维尔领先专家奈杰尔·史密斯教授（普林斯顿大学）合作举办的学校会议、公开讲座和“马尔维尔和中世纪赫尔”公开展览进行传播。