Servants on Grand Tour in Europe in the Eighteenth Century

十八世纪欧洲巡游的仆人

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W004127/1
负责人：
金额：
$ 12.35万
依托单位：
University of Liverpool
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=ES%2FW004127%2F1
关键词：
Servants Grand Tour Europe Eighteenth

项目摘要

Servants on Grand Tour in Europe in the Eighteenth CenturyThroughout the eighteenth century, elite British travellers relied on their servants' skills, such as their knowledge of languages, geography, and the value of goods and services, to create a 'British' travel experience. This project, which emerges from my PhD research, will examine the roles of maids, valets, coachmen, or other British or European personal servants, to recover a group of travellers we know little about and their contributions to the success or failure of a Grand Tour. These servants travelled, not for their own business or pleasure, but for that of their elite employers. A case study approach will reshape our concept of master-servant relationships. It will examine the enforced proximity of masters and servants under travel conditions and what this tells us about the development of national and social identities, conceptualisations of class, as well as the nature of labour migration in the eighteenth century.The aims of this research are fivefold:1. To analyse servants' participation in eighteenth-century European cultures of travel. Redressing travel scholarship's tendency to focus on elites, it will foster wider historical understanding of travel as a cultural, social and economic force in eighteenth-century Europe.2. To provide a fresh account of the service relationship that emphasises the agency of domestic servants.3. To contribute to current academic and public debates on national identities, class, mobility and labour, gender, and British-European relations.4. To investigate the fluidity and connectivity between travel and migration.5. To establish, how far British high culture in the eighteenth-century was built on mundane skills of people not commonly seen as refined participants in society.Servants who deliberately developed travel expertise to appeal to employers feature only on the margins of research, as tutors or otherwise specialised and learned companions, again, further occluding the role of servants in shaping British travel culture. Studying the experiences of travelling servants will bring together into a single frame the analysis of elite and labouring class travel that are often treated separately. Tracing their histories will allow us to combine cultural and economic analyses, to reconnect the Grand Tour with the economic world of the lower orders and to add the elite, transitory, and cultural to histories of labour and migration.The elite dimension of eighteenth-century travel does not need to be doubted to accept that there is a facilitating non-elite counterpart. To understand the social, cultural, economic, and political dimension of eighteenth-century British travel we need to consider those who surrounded and supported elite travellers daily, and access new types of source material in order to understand the 'place' servants held in British travel and identity formation.Servants can be considered a particularly mobile group in the eighteenth century. The project will make use of different ideas of mobility, physical, economic, social, and contrast these with the concept of domesticity. The study will incorporate approaches taken from transnational history and gender studies and combine these with the economic and socio-anthropological insights of labour and migration studies.This fellowship is an important steppingstone in the long-term development of my postdoctoral research. By the end of the 12-month period I will be able to start work on my project in depth having laid the groundwork already. This groundwork constitutes of establishing a direction for my research profile through an increasing publication track record and building a professional network within the eighteenth-century research community. It also includes developing prescient and compelling funding proposals that demonstrate my abilities to contribute to the wider field of social, cultural, and economic eighteenth-century studies.

十八世纪，十八世纪的欧洲大巡回演出的仆人依靠他们的仆人技能，例如他们对语言，地理和商品和服务的价值等仆人的技能来创造“英国”旅行体验。该项目是从我的博士学位研究中出现的，它将研究女仆，代客，教练或其他英国或欧洲私人仆人的作用，以恢复一群我们对大游览的成功或失败的贡献。这些仆人不是为了自己的生意或愉悦而旅行，而是为了他们的精英雇主。案例研究方法将重塑我们对总体服务关系的概念。它将在旅行条件下研究大师和仆人的强制性邻近，这告诉我们有关国家和社会身份的发展，阶级概念化以及18世纪劳动移民的性质。这项研究的目的是五倍：1。分析仆人参与18世纪的欧洲旅行文化。纠正旅行奖学金专注于精英的倾向，它将在十八世纪欧洲作为一种文化，社会和经济力量来促进对旅行的更广泛的历史理解。2。为了提供强调家庭仆人代理的服务关系的全面说明3。为有关民族身份，阶级，流动性和劳动，性别和英国关系的当前学术和公众辩论做出贡献。4。研究旅行和迁移之间的流动性和连通性5。为了确定，在18世纪的英国高文化中的多远是建立在不常见的人的平凡技能的基础上，这些人在社会中的精致参与者中，故意开发旅行专业知识以吸引雇主仅在研究范围中吸引雇主，作为教师或其他专业的伴侣，再次，再次掩盖了仆人在塑造英国旅游文化中的作用。研究旅行仆人的经历将使一帧聚集在一起，分析精英和劳动课程的分析，这些旅行通常会分别进行治疗。追踪他们的历史将使我们能够将文化和经济分析结合在一起，将盛大的巡回演出与较低命令的经济世界重新连接，并将精英，临时性和文化添加到劳动和移民历史中。十八世纪旅行的精英维度不需要怀疑就可以接受一个可提高的非精灵对策。要了解18世纪英国旅行的社会，文化，经济和政治层面，我们需要考虑每天包围和支持精英旅客的人，并获取新型的原始材料，以了解英国旅行和身份形式中所拥有的“地点”仆人。可以将其视为十八世纪特别移动的集团。该项目将利用各种流动性，物理，经济，社会和对比的概念与家庭概念进行对比。该研究将融合从跨国历史和性别研究中采取的方法，并将其与劳动和移民研究的经济和社会人类学见解相结合。该研究金是我博士后研究长期发展的重要垫脚石。到了12个月末，我将能够深入研究我的项目，从而奠定了基础。这一基础工作构成了通过日益出版的记录和在18世纪研究社区中建立专业网络的构建方向。它还包括制定先知和令人信服的资金建议，这些建议证明了我有能力为更广泛的社会，文化和经济研究贡献的能力。