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Reimagining the Restoration: Samuel Pepys's Diary and Popular History for the Twenty-first Century

重新想象复兴：塞缪尔·佩皮斯的日记和二十一世纪的通俗历史

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W003651/1
负责人：
Katherine Loveman
金额：
$ 29.78万
依托单位：
University of Leicester
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%2FW003651%2F1
关键词：
Reimagining Restoration Samuel Pepys Diary

项目摘要

Since it was first published in 1825, Samuel Pepys's diary of the 1660s has been a vital source on the Restoration period for historians and literary scholars. The diary's mix of intimate, salacious experiences and major national events -- such as the plague, the Great Fire and the Dutch War -- has an enduring appeal. It is a source which has come to dominate public understanding of the later seventeenth century. With increasingly complete editions appearing, Pepys's diary has inspired exhibitions, novels and tv dramas, and has been used to sell everything from pens to whisky. Despite considerable commercial and curatorial inventiveness, the ways that Pepys's diary is used today fall into predictable patterns in terms of both the episodes discussed and the approaches adopted. A number of these approaches -- unrecognised by the diary's readers -- were conditioned, even designed, by Pepys through steps he took to control access to his papers. Pepys bequeathed his diary as part of his library to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where it has been since 1724, with strict conditions on its access. This project therefore investigates the reception of Pepys's diary over the last 200 years as a means to impact the ways it, and the Restoration, will be understood in the twenty-first century. The work has three strands which are united by the themes of inclusivity and storytelling. First, an academic trade book, The Secret History of Samuel Pepys's Diary, will explore the diary's reception. Timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the diary's publication, the book will trace the ways Pepys's diary has shaped ideas of the Restoration in popular culture, from early censored editions (which sparked protests among Victorian reviewers about 'suppressed' passages) to its role in the National Curriculum, and in inspiring controversial novels. The diary has always prompted historiographical debates over what kind of history, and whose histories, merit telling. To further this, I will offer archival discoveries about the other lives that feature in Pepys's diary -- such as those of non-elite women, Black Londoners, and a deaf boy and his signing friends -- whose stories are sometimes no less compelling than Pepys's own. The second strand of this project concerns those 'other lives' and develops the long-standing involvement of historical novelists with the diary. Early in the project, I will run online workshops for creative writers based on my research, which will in turn inform the book's discussion of historical fictions. Using my archival work, these workshops will engage with the process of writing historical fictions, including ethical questions involved in creating stories about real (and silenced) individuals. The final strand is an ambitious programme of engagement work developed with my collaborating organisation, the Museum of London, which targets primary school children, parents, and teachers. Each year the diary is the first introduction to seventeenth-century history for 5 to 7-year-olds across England and Wales, who learn about the Great Fire during National Curriculum Key Stage 1. The Museum has identified demand for greater diversity in teaching the Fire, demand that my research on Pepys's diary can help answer. Together we will produce KS1 educational resources for a new area of the successful fireoflondon.org.uk website. In addition, engagement work with D/deaf schools will focus on the history of sign language, as evinced in the diary. With work underway on the Museum's new West Smithfield site, this collaboration also allows project research to inform elements of the Great Fire gallery design. As we approach the 200th anniversary of the diary's publication and the 300th anniversary of the Pepys Library, it is time to recognise the factors that shaped the diary's role in representing the Restoration to the public and to develop resources that can expand that role and, in doing so, expand that public.

自1825年首次出版以来，塞缪尔·佩皮斯关于17世纪60年代的日记一直是历史学家和文学学者关于复辟时期的重要资料。这本日记将亲密、淫秽的经历与重大国家事件--如瘟疫、大火和荷兰战争--结合在一起，具有持久的吸引力。这是一个已经开始主导公众对17世纪后期理解的来源。随着越来越完整的版本出现，佩皮斯的日记启发了展览、小说和电视剧，并被用来销售从钢笔到威士忌的一切东西。尽管在商业和策展方面有相当大的创造性，但就讨论的情节和采用的方法而言，佩皮斯的日记今天被使用的方式是可以预见的。其中许多方法--日记的读者没有意识到--是佩皮斯通过采取措施控制对他的论文的访问而设定的，甚至是他设计的。佩皮斯将他的日记作为图书馆的一部分遗赠给了剑桥的抹大拉学院，自1724年以来一直在那里，对进入那里有严格的条件。因此，这个项目调查了佩皮斯日记在过去200年中的接受情况，以此作为一种手段来影响它和复辟时期在21世纪将被理解的方式。这部作品有三条线索，通过包容性和讲故事的主题联系在一起。首先，一本学术贸易书籍《塞缪尔·佩皮斯日记的秘史》将探讨这本日记的接受情况。这本书恰逢这本日记出版200周年，将追溯佩皮斯的日记在流行文化中塑造复辟思想的方式，从早期的审查版本(这引发了维多利亚时代评论家对被压制的段落的抗议)到它在国家课程中的角色，以及激发争议的小说。这本日记总是引发了历史学上的辩论，即什么样的历史值得讲述，谁的历史值得讲述。为了进一步说明这一点，我将提供关于佩皮斯日记中其他生活的档案发现--例如非精英女性、黑人伦敦人、一个聋哑男孩和他的签约朋友--他们的故事有时不亚于佩皮斯自己的故事。这个项目的第二个方面是关于那些“其他生命”，并发展了历史小说家与日记的长期参与。在这个项目的早期，我将根据我的研究为创意作家举办在线研讨会，这反过来将为这本书对历史小说的讨论提供信息。利用我的档案工作，这些研讨会将参与历史小说的写作过程，包括创作关于真实(和沉默的)个人的故事所涉及的伦理问题。最后一条线索是与我的合作组织伦敦博物馆共同制定的一项雄心勃勃的参与工作计划，目标是小学生、家长和教师。每年，这本日记都是英格兰和威尔士5到7岁的孩子们第一次接触17世纪的历史，他们在国家课程关键的第一阶段学习大火。博物馆发现，人们对火灾教学的多样性有需求，我对佩皮斯日记的研究可以帮助他们回答这一问题。我们将共同为成功的Fireoflondon.org.uk网站的新领域制作KS1教育资源。此外，如日记所示，与D/聋人学校的接触工作将侧重手语的历史。随着博物馆新的西史密斯菲尔德遗址的工作正在进行中，这一合作还允许项目研究为大火画廊的设计元素提供信息。在我们即将迎来日记出版200周年和佩皮斯图书馆300周年之际，是时候认识到日记在向公众展示复辟过程中所扮演的角色的因素，并开发资源来扩大这一角色，并在这样做的过程中扩大公众。