Poetry, Song and Community in the Industrial City: Victorian Dundee

工业城市的诗歌、歌曲和社区：维多利亚时代的邓迪

• 批准号: 1650062
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1650062
• 关键词: Poetry; Song; Community; Industrial; City

This project explores the workings of the 'bardic community' (a term coined by Brian Maidment) in a rapidly industrializing Victorian city, questioning how poetry and song operated to foster a sense of community in an environment undergoing major expansion, immigration and development. Using the outstanding and little-researched resources of Dundee Central Library, especially the A. C. Lamb Collection, it will investigate how poetry and song were utilized by writers and performers, whether in the street, in shops such as the Poet's Box, in the meetings and events of Dundee's many literary societies, in factory outings and celebratory dinners, or in the newspaper columns of Dundee's famous Saturday papers aimed at a working-class readership, the People's Journal, the Weekly News and the People's Friend. As a jointly conceived PhD, an integral part of the student's remit will involve working with Dundee Central on community engagement projects relating to the library's internationally significant holdings in Victorian Scottish poetry and song, and reflecting, in the final part of the thesis, on the survival of verse culture in the 21st century, and on the use of archival resources to engage today's citizens of Dundee with this aspect of the cultural heritage of their city. Lamb's Temperance Hotel was one of the city's most popular entertainment venues in the mid-Victorian period, and A. C. Lamb not only knew most of the important citizens of Victorian Dundee, he also collected vast amounts of material (the library has 45 boxes) about the popular and literary culture of the city, including many examples of rare poetic ephemera. The Lamb collection, as Blair's own recent research indicates, supplies strong evidence of the vitality of verse culture in Dundee, as does the popularity of original poetry by local poets and the frequent mentions of poetic performances in the columns of the local press: Dundee Central also has an important collection of hard copy Victorian newspapers, including some unavailable elsewhere. Such 'local' verse makes strong appeals to a sense of community within the city or its outlying districts, yet it also reflects upon the relationship between events in Dundee and the wider - and contested - imagined communities of Scotland, Britain, the colonies and the Empire. Much of this poetry and song was written by artisan poets and produced to order, or to celebrate or critique current affairs in Dundee and beyond. This PhD project, informed by recent work in 'new formalism' and historical poetics, will ask how it revises traditional Scottish forms and genres, such as the ballad, as a means of connecting past histories of the Scottish bard or 'makar' with the artisan poet, and will consider how (or whether) these forms survive and evolve in Victorian modernity. By enabling a focus on oral and performance culture as well as reading communities, the project will have a joined-up, interdisciplinary approach to poetry and song, querying whether these can be regarded as distinct genres in the period. The exact period and material covered by the thesis and the balance between discussion of oral and written cultures will be for the student to decide, and we anticipate that he or she may also make substantial use of the Wighton Heritage Centre at Dundee Central and its major resources in the field of Scottish song and musicology. This will be an innovative thesis which, while grounded in in-depth archival research, will have potential to shape an emerging field of study and suggest key directions for future research in Victorian studies and Scottish studies, while offering opportunities for the student to develop transferable skills in librarianship, information management, public engagement and knowledge exchange.

这个项目探讨了“吟游诗人社区”（Brian Maidment创造的一个术语）在一个迅速工业化的维多利亚城市中的运作，质疑诗歌和歌曲如何在经历重大扩张，移民和发展的环境中培养社区意识。利用邓迪中心图书馆优秀而又鲜有研究的文献资源，特别是A. C.兰姆收藏，它将调查如何诗歌和歌曲被作家和表演者，无论是在街上，在商店，如诗人的盒子，在会议和活动的邓迪的许多文学社团，在工厂郊游和庆祝晚宴，或在报纸专栏邓迪的著名星期六报纸针对工人阶级的读者，人民日报，每周新闻和人民的朋友。作为一个共同构思的博士学位，学生的职权范围的一个组成部分将涉及与邓迪中央社区参与项目有关的图书馆在维多利亚时代的苏格兰诗歌和歌曲的国际重要馆藏，并反映，在论文的最后一部分，在21世纪世纪诗歌文化的生存，以及利用档案资源让今天的邓迪公民参与他们城市文化遗产的这一方面。兰姆的禁酒酒店是维多利亚时代中期城市最受欢迎的娱乐场所之一，A。C.兰姆不仅认识维多利亚时代邓迪的大多数重要公民，他还收集了大量关于这座城市的流行文化和文学文化的材料（图书馆有45个箱子），包括许多罕见的诗歌昙花一现的例子。正如布莱尔自己最近的研究所表明的那样，兰姆收藏品为邓迪诗歌文化的活力提供了强有力的证据，当地诗人原创诗歌的流行以及当地媒体专栏中经常提到的诗歌表演也是如此：邓迪中心还收藏了重要的硬拷贝维多利亚报纸，包括一些其他地方没有的报纸。这种“地方性”诗歌强烈呼吁城市内部或其外围地区的社区意识，但它也反映了邓迪事件与苏格兰、英国、殖民地和帝国等更广泛--也是有争议的--想象中的社区之间的关系。这些诗歌和歌曲大部分是由工匠诗人创作的，并按订单制作，或庆祝或批评邓迪及其他地区的时事。这个博士项目，通过最近的工作在“新形式主义”和历史诗学的通知，将询问它如何修改传统的苏格兰形式和流派，如民谣，作为连接苏格兰吟游诗人或“makar”与工匠诗人过去的历史的一种手段，并将考虑如何（或是否）这些形式生存和演变在维多利亚时代的现代性。通过关注口头和表演文化以及阅读社区，该项目将对诗歌和歌曲采取联合的跨学科方法，质疑这些是否可以被视为该时期的独特流派。论文所涵盖的确切时期和材料以及口头和书面文化讨论之间的平衡将由学生决定，我们预计他或她也可以大量使用邓迪中央的Wighton遗产中心及其在苏格兰歌曲和音乐学领域的主要资源。这将是一个创新的论文，而在深入的档案研究接地，将有可能塑造一个新兴的研究领域，并建议在维多利亚研究和苏格兰研究的未来研究的关键方向，同时为学生提供机会，发展可转移的技能在图书馆，信息管理，公众参与和知识交流。