'Susanna Hall and Hall's Croft: Gender, Cultural Memory, Heritage'

“苏珊娜·霍尔和霍尔的克罗夫特：性别、文化记忆、遗产”

• 批准号: AH/V014439/1
• 负责人: Ailsa Grant Ferguson
• 金额: $ 30.9万
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV014439%2F1
• 关键词: Susanna; Hall; Croft; Gender; Cultural

At a time when our shared experience of history and heritage sites is at a crisis point, as dual global crises of climate change and Covid meet positive movements towards greater inclusivity of cultural memory, 'Susanna Hall and Hall's Croft: Gender, Cultural Memory, Heritage' will provide an urgent intervention in how we experience literary and cultural heritage, both local and global. It will offer the first ever full case study of Susanna Hall (William Shakespeare's eldest daughter) and her home, Hall's Croft, owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the organisational partner for the project. Rectifying Susanna's sideline position in cultural memory is both practically vital in increasing understanding of women's history and heritage and powerfully symbolic in building an inclusive, transparent future for heritage presentation and academic research.The project challenges how early modern women have been historicised and mediated in the construction of literary and cultural heritage, both local and global, via a case study of Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare) and her home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Susanna's house, Hall's Croft, is open to the public and attracts 85,000 visitors each year. Susanna lived to 66 years of age, during which lifetime she married, had a daughter and suffered the major scandal of a public accusation of adultery, countered by a slander case she brought, together with her husband the renowned physician, John Hall. She outlived John to manage a household, negotiate the sale of her Hall's manuscripts and probably took over aspects of his medical work in the form of healing and acting as a 'wisewoman'. Via new research based on a range of evidence, including from the first complete modern English translation (Wells & Edmondson, 2020) of John Hall's Casebooks, the project contextualises Susanna within the female population of her home town, Stratford-upon-Avon, in her own time. Primarily, the project scrutinises the construction of Susanna and her home as a site of cultural memory and heritage both nationally and internationally. The project re-examines Susanna's contribution, both as a 'real' and as an imagined woman, to private and public life and to textual and material history. It investigates Hall's Croft's case to interrogate the gendered nature of cultural memory and heritage and their relationship with individual and group memory, locally, nationally and globally.This project presents new ways to present heritage narratives of early modern women (or, more accurately, their truncation or omission) and the construction of literary cultural heritage, specifically early modern women in the Shakespeare narrative and heritage spaces. The intersections of women's history at Hall's Croft and the construction of Susanna Hall are paradigmatic of a wider need for the re-mediation of women's narratives in heritage presentation. This project presents new research and examines how archive sources have been utilised in past narratives to construct and represent Susanna and Hall's Croft. The project reveals the importance of the site as a space to explore early modern women's health and wellbeing, literacy and resource management practices as well as questioning the dominance of father and husband in our cultural memory of Susanna. Examining female agency, power and identity in constructing discourses and narratives of memory and heritage, the project uses Susanna's life, reputation - and subsequent historicisation, fictionalisation and mediation - both to scrutinise and to intervene in how sites and narratives construct cultural memory. The project utilises innovative digital humanities technologies to create outputs that encourage autonomy in how we experience heritage narratives, both in academic and leisure contexts, lifting the lid on how academic research informs heritage presentations and inviting users to play an active part in constructing shared heritage narratives.

当前，我们对历史和遗产地的共同体验正处于危机时刻，气候变化和新冠肺炎这两大全球危机正面临着提高文化记忆包容性的积极运动，《苏珊娜·霍尔和霍尔的克罗夫特：性别、文化记忆、遗产》将为我们如何体验地方和全球的文学和文化遗产提供紧急干预。它将首次提供苏珊娜·霍尔（威廉·莎士比亚的大女儿）和她的家霍尔的克罗夫特的完整案例研究，该家归莎士比亚出生地信托基金会所有，该基金会是该项目的组织合作伙伴。纠正苏珊娜在文化记忆中的次要地位，不仅对增进对妇女历史和遗产的理解至关重要，而且对建立一个包容、透明的遗产展示和学术研究的未来具有重要的象征意义。该项目通过苏珊娜·霍尔（即莎士比亚）和她在埃文河畔斯特拉特福的家的案例研究，挑战了早期现代女性在当地和全球文学和文化遗产的建设中是如何被历史化和调解的。苏珊娜的房子，霍尔的克罗夫特，对公众开放，每年吸引85,000名游客。苏珊娜活到了66岁，在这一生中，她结了婚，生了一个女儿，并遭受了通奸的公开指控的重大丑闻，她与她的丈夫，著名医生约翰·霍尔一起提起了诽谤诉讼。她比约翰活得更久，要管理家庭，谈判出售她的霍尔手稿，并可能以治疗和“智慧女人”的形式接管了他的医疗工作。通过基于一系列证据的新研究，包括约翰·霍尔案例书的第一个完整的现代英语翻译（威尔斯和埃德蒙森，2020年），该项目将苏珊娜置于她所在时代家乡埃文河畔斯特拉特福的女性人口中。首先，该项目将苏珊娜和她的家作为国家和国际文化记忆和遗产的场所进行审查。该项目重新审视了苏珊娜作为一个“真实的”和想象中的女性，对私人和公共生活以及文本和物质历史的贡献。它调查了霍尔·克罗夫特的案例，询问文化记忆和遗产的性别本质，以及它们与个人和群体记忆的关系，在地方、国家和全球范围内。该项目提出了新的方式来呈现早期现代女性的遗产叙事（或者更准确地说，是她们的截断或遗漏）和文学文化遗产的构建，特别是莎士比亚叙事和遗产空间中的早期现代女性。霍尔克罗夫特的女性历史与苏珊娜大厅的建设的交集是对遗产展示中女性叙事重新调解的更广泛需求的范例。这个项目展示了新的研究，并探讨了档案资料如何在过去的叙述中被利用来构建和代表苏珊娜和霍尔的克罗夫特。该项目揭示了该遗址作为探索早期现代女性健康和福祉、扫盲和资源管理实践的空间的重要性，并质疑父亲和丈夫在我们对苏珊娜的文化记忆中的主导地位。在构建记忆和遗产的话语和叙事中，该项目考察了女性的能动性、权力和身份，利用苏珊娜的生活、声誉——以及随后的历史化、虚构化和调解——来审视和干预网站和叙事如何构建文化记忆。该项目利用创新的数字人文技术来创造产出，鼓励我们在学术和休闲环境中自主体验遗产叙事，打开学术研究如何为遗产展示提供信息的限制，并邀请用户积极参与构建共享的遗产叙事。