Digital Edgeworth Network

数字埃奇沃斯网络

• 批准号: AH/V002287/1
• 负责人: Rosalind Ballaster
• 金额: $ 3.07万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV002287%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Edgeworth; Network

The Digital Edgeworth Network explores and analyses the manuscript archive of the celebrated author Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) and the Edgeworth family. This collaborative digital network project responds to the scale and scope of the Edgeworth papers, taking an interdisciplinary approach that can in the future be scaled up via an open access digital resource for the use of scholars in history, literature and politics. The rich and varied collection of papers related to the Edgeworth family from the 17th to the 19th century is divided by the Irish Sea and also cut off from its original home in Edgeworthstown, County Longford. The manuscript archives split almost equally between the National Library of Ireland, Dublin and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, comprise many thousands of items including manuscript drafts, drawings, family correspondence, of which only a tiny percentage is available in print, and even less is subject to scholarly editing. The Edgeworth archive offers important evidence (manuscript drafts and correspondence) about the literary career of one of the most influential novelists of the early nineteenth century, Maria Edgeworth; the educational, agricultural and political theory and practice of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817); the ways in which an extended family with connections in Ireland, England, Europe and India, communicated and collaborated in the production of art, literature, and scientific knowledge; the history of Anglo-Irish relations in a period of political contest and transformation. Inspired by a 12 volume print scholarly edition (1993,2003) under the general editorship of Edgeworth's biographer, Marilyn Butler, there has been a significant surge in critical interest in the work. Selections of Edgeworth's letters have appeared in print, most recently Valerie Pakenham's Maria Edgeworth's Letters from Ireland (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2017). Print editions of letters and the fiction do not however communicate the breadth, variety and relevance of the extended correspondence and related network made apparent in the archive. Digital humanities' approaches and techniques make it possible not only to increase access to the manuscript archive, but also to analyse and understand it in new ways that offer potential to academic researchers and for cultural heritage. This timely proposal builds on an existing informal network and, in the context of the changing climate of British-Irish relations, solidifies and embeds previously informal connections to promote better understanding or our shared past for mutual benefit. Through collaboration between specialists in literary history, correspondence networks, digital technology, and heritage, the network will explore ways of re-uniting a divided archive and communicating its significance. The proposed activities cross disciplinary, geographical and sectoral boundaries and promote collaboration between academic researchers at the Universities of Cork and Oxford, libraries at Dublin and Oxford, and a cultural heritage organization (Edgeworthstown District Development Association).The network's public activities -- including the development of new resources at Edgeworthstown and the stimulation of creative responses from local school children to the manuscript materials in the Bodleian libraries and the National Library of Ireland -- have been designed to promote community and creative engagement with the resources, focusing on understanding better the global connectedness of Maria and her family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This work will provide the basis for exploring the future use of digital technology to bring archival images and information to life, enabling rich heritage experiences, as well as the wider dissemination of new scholarly understanding.

数字埃奇沃思网络探索和分析了著名作家玛丽亚·埃奇沃思（1768-1849）和埃奇沃思家族的手稿档案。这个合作数字网络项目响应埃奇沃思论文的规模和范围，采取跨学科的方法，未来可以通过开放访问数字资源进行扩展，供历史，文学和政治学者使用。丰富多样的收集文件有关的埃奇沃思家庭从17日至19日世纪是分裂的爱尔兰海，也切断了从原来的家在埃奇沃思镇，县朗福德。手稿档案几乎平均分配给都柏林的爱尔兰国家图书馆和牛津大学的博德利图书馆，其中包括数千件物品，包括手稿草稿、图画、家庭信件，其中只有一小部分是印刷版，经过学术编辑的就更少了。埃奇沃思的档案提供了重要的证据关于世纪早期最有影响力的小说家之一玛丽亚·埃奇沃思的文学生涯的（手稿草稿和信件）;理查德·洛弗尔·埃奇沃思的教育、农业和政治理论与实践（1744-1817）;一个与爱尔兰、英国、欧洲和印度有联系的大家庭在艺术创作中的沟通和合作方式，文学和科学知识;在政治竞争和转型时期的盎格鲁-爱尔兰关系的历史。在埃奇沃思的传记作者玛丽莲·巴特勒（Marilyn Butler）主编的12卷印刷学术版（1993年，2003年）的启发下，对这部作品的评论兴趣大增。埃奇沃思的书信选集已经出版，最近的一本是瓦莱丽·帕克纳姆的《玛丽亚·埃奇沃思的爱尔兰书信》（都柏林：小人国出版社，2017年）。然而，信件和小说的印刷版并没有传达档案中明显的扩展通信和相关网络的广度，多样性和相关性。数字人文学科的方法和技术不仅可以增加对手稿档案的访问，还可以以新的方式分析和理解它，为学术研究人员和文化遗产提供潜力。这一及时的提议建立在现有的非正式网络基础上，并在英国-爱尔兰关系不断变化的背景下，巩固和嵌入以前的非正式联系，以促进更好的理解或我们共同的过去，以实现互利。通过文学史、通信网络、数字技术和遗产方面的专家之间的合作，该网络将探索重新统一分裂的档案并传达其重要性的方法。拟议的活动跨越学科、地理和部门界限，促进科克大学和牛津大学的学术研究人员、都柏林图书馆和牛津图书馆之间的合作，和一个文化遗产组织（埃奇斯顿地区发展协会）。该网络的公共活动--包括在埃奇斯顿开发新的资源，以及激发当地学童对手稿的创造性反应在博德利图书馆和爱尔兰国家图书馆的资料-旨在促进社区和创造性地参与资源，重点是更好地了解玛丽亚和她的家人在十八世纪和十九世纪的全球联系。这项工作将为探索未来如何利用数字技术使档案图像和信息栩栩如生提供基础，使人们能够获得丰富的遗产经验，并更广泛地传播新的学术理解。