Dickens and the Heritage Sector: Dickensland

该博士学位将研究：1。自作者去世以来，具有强烈狄更斯联想的地点如何被一系列利益集团策划、消费和利用（家人、粉丝、地方当局、媒体、商业旅游等）。2.“狄更斯”伦敦“/”狄更斯“作为一个想象空间的建构。3.真实的和想象的“狄更斯”对现代旅游业的价值。狄更斯博物馆（作者以前在布卢姆斯伯里的道蒂街的家）将提供研究基地，促进其历史，展览，游客信息和档案的探索。后者包括世界上最大的未编目的与狄更斯有关的剪报收藏，记录了从1870年狄更斯去世到20世纪初新闻中所有与狄更斯有关的内容;还有狄更斯联谊会的记录，这是一个由狄更斯学者和业余爱好者组成的世界性协会，出版狄更斯杂志，其使命是致力于保护狄更斯遗产。此外，博物馆拥有一个庞大的，未编目的物品收藏，这是安置在现场和无与伦比的狄更斯地形/步行书籍收藏（狄更斯出版业蓬勃发展的一面）。该项目将以档案和经验为基础，但与已经提到的所有学科的理论框架进行对话。章节可能包括：1.首都旅游：本文概述了狄更斯一生中为狄更斯式的城市旅游奠定基础的因素：19世纪伦敦城市地形旅游的繁荣（特别是都市旅游指南的激增）;希腊人对文学遗产的庆祝/商业利用和对作者的崇拜;注重保护建筑环境的遗产敏感性的增长;以及狄更斯自己在小说中对伦敦地点/著名建筑/地标的大量使用。2.发现狄更斯：考虑如何球迷/指南/记者定义的边界'狄更斯'后不久，作者的死亡，创造了一个现成的'圣地'的重要网站的游客/文学朝圣者，这一直回收至今。本章将探讨特定的地点是如何流行和过时的，而其他地点则是如何被添加或发明的;此外，狄更斯式的地点如何经常为关于无节制的城市发展的辩论提供焦点（例如，“拯救”克利夫兰街济贫院）。将充分利用博物馆的狄更斯指南，狄更斯奖学金和新闻档案记录广泛收集。3.定义“狄更斯式”城市：探讨媒体如何“继承”狄更斯去世后，强调在他的生活和工作来定义作者在公众的想象力（如圣诞节，欢乐，社会改革）的关键主题。重点，特别是如何“狄更斯”成为新闻速记贫民窟条件在维多利亚时代的伦敦，以及如何新闻报道不仅塑造了公众对狄更斯的理解，他的作品和他的环境，但维多利亚时代的伦敦本身。博物馆的新闻档案对于调查这一过程的早期阶段至关重要。本章还将讨论狄更斯博物馆和遗产产业如何对狄更斯笔下的伦敦这一狭隘的概念做出贡献（也是挑战），特别是在展览和展览方面。4.想象一下狄更斯笔下的伦敦：看看如何“狄更斯”伦敦“已被描绘超越印刷媒体，主要是在电影/电视/视频游戏;还认为已不复存在的”狄更斯世界“主题公园在查塔姆。本章将探讨这些描绘是否强化了城市苦难和贫民窟的刻板印象。

The proposed PhD will research: 1. How locations with strong Dickensian associations have been curated, consumed and exploited by a range of interests, ever since the author's death (family, fans, local authorities, the media, commercial tourism et al.). 2. The construction of 'Dickens' London' / 'Dickensland' as an imaginative space. 3. The value of both real and imagined 'Dickensland' to the modern tourist industry. The Dickens Museum (the author's former Doughty Street home in Bloomsbury) will provide the research base, facilitating exploration of its history, exhibitions, visitor information and archives. The latter includes the biggest uncatalogued collection of newspaper clippings relating to Dickens in the world, charting all things Dickensian in the news from Dickens's death in 1870 to the early twentieth century; the records of the Dickens Fellowship, a world-wide society of Dickens scholars and amateur enthusiasts which publishes the Dickensian magazine and whose mission is dedicated to preserving Dickens heritage. In addition, the Museum owns an expansive, uncatalogued collection of objects which is housed onsite and an unrivalled collection of books on Dickensian topography / walks (a thriving side of the Dickens publishing industry). The project will be archivally and empirically based, yet in dialogue with theoretical frames from all the disciplines already mentioned. Chapters might include: 1. The Tourist Capital: Outlines the factors during Dickens' lifetime which laid the groundwork for Dickensian urban tourism: the boom in urban topographical tourism in 19C London (particularly the proliferation of metropolitan guide-books); the Victorians' celebration/commercial exploitation of literary heritage and the cult of the author; the growth of a heritage sensibility focussed on preservation of the built environment; and Dickens' own extensive use of London locations/famous buildings/landmarks in his fiction. 2. Discovering Dickensland: Considers how fans/guidebooks/journalists defined the borders of 'Dickensland' soon after the author's death, creating a ready-made 'hallowed ground' of significant sites for tourists/literary pilgrims, which has been recycled ever since. The chapter will examine how particular locations have fallen in and out of fashion, whilst others have been added or invented; also, how Dickensian sites have often provided a focal point for debate about unchecked urban development (e.g. 'saving' the Cleveland Street workhouse). Full use will be made of the Museum's extensive collection of Dickensian guidebooks, records of the Dickensian Fellowship and press archive. 3. Defining the 'Dickensian' City: Examines how the media 'heritagised' Dickens after his death, emphasising key themes in his life and work which came to define the author in the public imagination (e.g. Christmas; conviviality; social reform). Focuses, in particular, on how 'Dickensian' became journalistic shorthand for slum conditions in Victorian London; and how press coverage has shaped not only public understanding of Dickens, his works and his milieu, but Victorian London itself. The Museum's press archive will be crucial to investigating the early stages of this process. This chapter will also consider how the Dickens Museum and the heritage industry have contributed to (and also challenged) this narrow conception of Dickens' London, with particular reference to displays and exhibitions. 4. Imagining Dickens' London: Looks at how 'Dickens' London' has been portrayed beyond print media, principally in films/TV/video games; also considers the defunct 'Dickens World' theme park at Chatham. The chapter will ask whether these portrayals reinforce the stereotype of urban suffering and slumdom.