Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now

安·雷德克利夫的过去和现在

• 批准号: AH/Z505894/1
• 负责人: Angela Wright
• 金额: $ 72.28万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505894%2F1
• 关键词: Ann; Radcliffe; Now

Hailed by the Romantic literati as the 'first poetess of Romantic fiction', the 'Shakespeare of Romance Writers', the 'mighty magician of The Mysteries of Udolpho' and 'the great enchantress of that generation', Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was a central figure in British culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Influential upon the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, Austen and Scott, she was read across the world in her time. Her later works, almost instantly pirated, translated, abridged, adapted and reissued in new editions for global readerships, were sought out by some of the major publishers of the 1790s and commanded hitherto unprecedented financial advances. Consequently, no history of British Romanticism is complete without a consideration of Radcliffe's works and reputation, the latter resting upon her five Gothic fictions, a substantial European and domestic travelogue, and her posthumously published historical romance and poetry. Despite the writer's success in her day ('then'), and beyond the appearance of some of her fictions on university curricula in eighteenth-century, Romantic and Gothic literary studies worldwide, Ann Radcliffe today ('now') is not well known or read beyond academic circles and anything but a household name: tellingly, a commentator on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, responding to Sheffield University's commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the writer's birth in 2014, opened with a question that would not have been asked of a contemporary such as Byron or Austen: 'Who was Ann Radcliffe?' Seeking to breach the divide between the 'then' and the 'now' of Radcliffe's reputation, this project has three primary aims. First, it seeks to bring the writer's works to a new generation of readers by overseeing the production of The Cambridge Edition of Ann Radcliffe, a major new edition of her complete oeuvre. Secondly, it aims to address in an accompanying volume, Ann Radcliffe in Context, the conditions that made her distinctive in the period 1789-1826 as well as some of the challenges that the editing and reading Radcliffe in the twenty-first century bring to light. Thirdly, through an exciting programme of outreach and knowledge exchange, the project seeks to intervene in current perceptions of Radcliffe beyond immediate academic contexts. In order to achieve these aims, the project seeks funding for two face-to-face meetings of the edition's editorial and advisory boards; the three-year appointment of a named full-time Research and Innovation Associate (RIA) who will oversee the work of collation, resource-finding, website management and dissemination; four public lectures; buyout for the Project Lead (PL) and three Project Co-Leads (PcL); and the resourcing of a series of podcasts on the theme of 'Ann Radcliffe: A Gothic Heroine for Today?' Through such scholarly and public-facing interventions, the project will make available the complete works of Ann Radcliffe to a new generation of students, scholars and readers, contributing in the process to the ongoing diversification of the English literary canon and restoring her culturally to the position of centrality that she enjoyed during the Romantic period.

安·雷德克里夫（1764-1823）被浪漫主义文人誉为“浪漫主义小说的第一位女诗人”、“浪漫作家中的莎士比亚”、“《乌迪内斯》中的强大魔术师”和“那一代的伟大女巫”，她是18世纪末19世纪初英国文化的中心人物。她对华兹华斯、柯勒律治、济慈、雪莱、拜伦、奥斯汀和斯科特的作品都有影响，在她那个时代，全世界都有人阅读她的作品。她后来的作品几乎立即被盗版，翻译，删节，改编并重新发行新版本，供全球读者阅读，被18世纪90年代的一些主要出版商所寻找，并获得了前所未有的资金支持。因此，如果不考虑雷德克里夫的作品和声誉，英国浪漫主义的历史是不完整的，后者依赖于她的五部哥特式小说，大量的欧洲和国内旅行记录，以及她死后出版的历史浪漫和诗歌。尽管作家的成功在她的一天（“然后”），除了她的一些小说出现在十八世纪的大学课程，浪漫主义和哥特式文学研究世界各地，安拉德克利夫今天（“现在”）是不知名或阅读超出学术界和任何东西，但家喻户晓的名字：英国广播公司第四电台的一位评论员在回应2014年谢菲尔德大学纪念作家诞辰250周年时说，开头提出了一个不会被问到拜伦或奥斯汀等同时代人的问题：“安·雷德克利夫是谁？”为了打破拉德克利夫“当时”和“现在”声誉之间的鸿沟，这个项目有三个主要目标。首先，它试图通过监督安·拉德克利夫的剑桥版的制作，将作家的作品带给新一代的读者，这是她全部作品的一个重要的新版本。其次，它的目的是在一个配套的卷，安拉德克利夫在上下文，条件，使她在1789年至1826年期间的独特性，以及一些挑战，编辑和阅读拉德克利夫在21世纪带来的光。第三，通过一个令人兴奋的外联和知识交流计划，该项目旨在干预当前对拉德克利夫的看法，超越直接的学术背景。为了实现这些目标，该项目寻求资助，以便该版本的编辑和咨询委员会举行两次面对面的会议;任命一名指定的全职研究和创新助理，任期三年，他将监督整理、资源寻找、网站管理和传播工作;举办四次公开讲座;买断项目负责人和三名项目共同负责人;以及一系列以“安·拉德克利夫：今天的哥特式女英雄？”为主题的播客的资源。“通过这种学术和面向公众的干预，该项目将向新一代的学生，学者和读者提供安·拉德克利夫的全部作品，在此过程中为英国文学经典的持续多样化做出贡献，并在文化上恢复她在浪漫主义时期所享有的中心地位。