Regional Writing in a Time of Nation-Building

我的项目的核心目标是让人们更好地了解威廉·巴恩斯的生活和作品。如今，威廉·巴恩斯最为人所知的身份是一位默默无闻的、回顾过去的19世纪多塞特方言诗人，但这对他和他的作品造成了极大的伤害。巴恩斯不仅写方言诗，也写标准的英语诗，还写了各种各样的非小说类作品，包括考古学、语言学、历史、经济学和社会评论。而且，这些作品是他同时创作的。因此，为了充分理解巴恩斯，我们必须认识到他的作品之间内在的相互联系。当我们看到他的作品之间的相互联系时，我们看到他的影响超出了西南方言诗歌的范围。我的研究的第一个维度是通过对巴恩斯的剪贴簿进行分析，并辅以他女儿写的巴恩斯传记，来证明巴恩斯写作的相互联系。这些资源只被学者用来提供传记背景，以支持对巴恩斯特定主题的重点研究。将这些材料作为主要文本进行研究，将会揭示出大量关于巴恩斯折衷主义作品的接近性及其创作环境的信息。我研究的第二个维度是建立在第一个维度的基础上的，通过观察巴恩斯的多塞特的文化生态。巴恩斯是社区的中心人物他是一名教师和牧师，所以他积极参与到人们和他们的环境中这反映在他的诗歌中，也反映在他的非小说作品中，尤其是他在多塞特内外出版的考古和语言学作品中。本节将驳斥巴恩斯仅仅是一个怀旧的、本地化的作家的观点，展示他的作品如何在时间和空间中描绘人、语言和环境的变化关系。我们习惯于谈论哈代的多塞特，哈代是威廉·巴恩斯的良师益友。我也很兴奋地研究这两位作家是如何探索文化和物质空间的。我研究的最后一部分将评估巴恩斯的作品在他生前和死后是如何被接受和重新理解的，以及他的作品是如何对西方国家文化的认知做出贡献的。反思前几节的发现，以及我们对巴恩斯作品的新的相互关联的理解，我将通过以下问题来结束我的研究：*是谁，或者是什么，影响了与巴恩斯和他的作品的接触？*这些影响揭示了巴恩斯的写作倾向于表现地域和国家认同的什么？*更全面地理解巴恩斯和他的作品会如何改变这些观念？

My project's core objective is to bring a greater understanding of the life and works of William Barnes.William Barnes is best known today as an obscure, retrospective, nineteenth-century Dorset dialect poet, but this does him and his works a great disservice. Barnes did not just write dialect poetry, but standard English poetry, and wrote non-fiction on a diverse range of subjects including archaeology, philology, history, economics and social commentary. Moreover, he wrote these works concurrently. To fully understand Barnes, then, we must recognise the inherent interconnectedness of his works. When we see the interconnectedness of his works, we see the extent of his influence beyond south west dialect poetry.The first dimension of my study is designed to demonstrate the interconnectedness of Barnes' writing by carrying out analysis on Barnes' scrapbooks, supported by the biography of Barnes written by his daughter. These resources have only ever been used by academics to provide biographical background to support to focused studies on specific Barnes topics. Engaging with these materials as primary texts will reveal a great deal about the proximity of Barnes' eclectic writings and the circumstances of their composition.The second dimension of my study builds on the first by looking at the cultural ecology of Barnes' Dorset. Barnes was a central figure in the communities he served as a teacher and a rector, so was actively engaged with the people and their environment which is reflected in his poetry but also his non-fiction, particularly his archaeological and philological writing that was published in and out of Dorset. This section will refute the idea that Barnes was solely a nostalgic, localised writer, showing how his works chart the changing relationship of people, language and the environment throughout time and space. We are used to talking about Hardy's Dorset, and Hardy was a mentor and friend of William Barnes. I am excited to examine how the cultural and physical spaces were explored by the two writers, too.The final section of my study will evaluate how Barnes' writing has been received and reconceived during and after his lifetime and how his writing has contributed to perceptions of west country culture. Reflecting on the findings of the previous sections, and our new interconnected understanding of Barnes' writing, I will conclude my study by asking: * Who, or what, has influenced encounters with Barnes and his writing? * What do these influences reveal about the propensity of Barnes' writing to represent notions of regional and national identity? * How will a more holistic understanding of Barnes and his writing alter these notions?