Region and Regency: national and regional identity in early nineteenth century female bildungsroman

地区与摄政：十九世纪初女性成长小说中的民族与地区身份

• 批准号: 2105828
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2105828
• 关键词: Region; Regency; national; regional; identity

This thesis will explore regional and national identity in Romantic period female bildungsroman and courtship novels, a genre usually studied for insights into gender politics (e.g. Kirkham, 1983, Gilbert and Gubar, 1979). In contrast, this project will explore the use of ideas of regional and national identityin the fictions of Jane Austen (England), Maria Edgeworth (Ireland) and Susan Ferrier (Scotland). The project's main aims are: To determine how geographical identities are presented, for example through the symbolic use of dialect speech, food, names and landscape, To explore how regional and national identities impact on writers' reception and reputation, both in their lifetimes and posthumously, To examine the difference between presentations of regionality and nationhood in published fictions and unpublished works, in order to investigate whether these writers modified geopolitical markerswhen preparing their work for a public audience. This research will build on my undergraduate studies of the long eighteenth century ('Talking Horses', 'Self and the World'), BA dissertation on food in Austen's juvenilia, and MA dissertation on food in Ferrier's novels. It will also build on MA modules on 'Literary Histories', 'Place, Region and Empire' and 'Textualities', which are honing my understanding of reception, literary geography, text and textediting. This project is ideally centred on the University of Nottingham, Professor Pratt is an expert in Romanticism and the recovery of reputations, Dr Ni Fhlathuin specialises in Romantic women's writing and national identities, and the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture is hosting the 2019 British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, which will provide me with unique networking, dissemination and development opportunities. I will also benefit from cross-institutional supervision by Dr James (Leicester), whose work on the reception of women writers complements my project.

本文将探讨浪漫主义时期女性成长小说和求爱小说中的地域和国家认同，这是一种通常用于研究性别政治的类型（如Kirkham， 1983, Gilbert and Gubar, 1979）。相比之下，这个项目将探索在简·奥斯汀（英国）、玛丽亚·埃奇沃斯（爱尔兰）和苏珊·费里尔（苏格兰）的小说中使用地区和国家认同的想法。该项目的主要目标是：为了确定地理身份是如何呈现的，例如通过方言，食物，名字和景观的象征性使用；为了探索地域和国家身份如何影响作家的接受和声誉，无论是在他们生前还是死后；为了检查已出版的小说和未出版的作品中地域性和国家性的表现之间的差异；为了调查这些作家在为公众准备他们的作品时是否修改了地缘政治标记。这项研究将建立在我对漫长的18世纪的本科研究（“会说话的马”，“自我与世界”），奥斯汀青少年时期的食物的学士论文，以及费里尔小说中的食物的硕士论文的基础上。它还将建立在“文学史”，“地方，地区和帝国”和“文本性”的硕士模块上，这些模块磨练了我对接受，文学地理学，文本和文本编写的理解。该项目理想地以诺丁汉大学为中心，普拉特教授是浪漫主义和声誉恢复方面的专家，Ni Fhlathuin博士专门研究浪漫主义女性写作和民族身份，区域文学和文化中心正在主办2019年英国浪漫研究协会会议，这将为我提供独特的网络，传播和发展机会。我还将受益于詹姆斯博士（莱斯特）的跨机构监督，他在女性作家接受方面的工作与我的项目相辅相成。