Prepare the Canons! Mary Ward and her followers at the vanguard of 'Life-editing'

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• 批准号: 2295530
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2295530
• 关键词: Prepare; Canons; Mary; Ward; her

My project proposes the first literary study of the life writing of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Popularly celebrated for generations as an early advocate for Catholic girls' education, Ward was in fact a radical reformer and her writings give us access to one of the most distinctive female voices of the sixteenth century.The daughter of Yorkshire Recusants, Ward fled for the Continent in order to practice her faith and follow a life devoted to God. It soon became evident, however, that her non-conformity was not restricted to the new Anglican order and that her radical desire to establish a female branch of the Jesuit mission (and its international project of Catholic conversion and colonisation) would alienate her from even those she sought as allies. Consequently, the Catholic Church attempted to suppress her legacy by destroying all written records of her life. However, various remnants saved by disciples faithful to her memory survive and now form the foundation of the archives at Manchester's Loreto College and the Bar Convent in York, now a 'Living Heritage Centre.' Using these archives and the comprehensive scholarly edition of all sources related to Ward published by Ursula Dirmeier in 2007, I will conduct the first interdisciplinary study of female-authored texts by and about Ward. My project will situate the surviving autobiographical fragments and the vitae composed by her followers in relation to the literary and critical debates surrounding the study of 'life writing' and initiate them into the canon of texts attributed with the inception of this genre. I will begin by assessing the evidence of self-editing in Ward's autobiographical fragments. I will ask how the annotations, corrections, omissions and additions suggest Ward was engaging with the process of the composition of a 'Life' and to what extent this was consciously literary. I will then analyse the consequences of variations between the biographical accounts and the autobiographical fragments and question to what extent these amendments were aesthetic and to what extent pragmatic - this will involve placing the texts in the dual context of composite women's writing and the emergence of 'life writing' as a distinct mode. As well as examining how the printed texts demonstrate the process of editing when compared to the manuscript sources, I will ask whether variations across translations constitute conscious acts of editing and how concurrences and differences suggest what may have been the content of certain 'lost' English-language sources (and therefore what may have been inventions, embellishments or personal reminiscences of their 'editor-authors'). Finally, I will explore the 'afterlives' of the texts and consider the implications of the subsequent editions, all of which were produced by nuns belonging to the order established by Ward. I will ask whether the composition and presentation of the extant fragments in later editions produce alternative narratives and how each editor negotiates their representation of Ward's self-conception, enquiring whether there is a single common imagined identity and how this corresponds with Ward's own self-representation in the manuscript sources. I have already implemented a similarly interdisciplinary methodology in a study of one of the unstudied manuscripts held at the John Rylands Library. I used formal literary analysis alongside palaeography and codicology to suggest how accomplished female Tudor readers may have subverted the acceptable conventions of pious reading by 'authoring' annotations in the additional quires of the devotional manuscript. A series of essays approaching this manuscript from various disciplinary perspectives will form the basis of an article I hope to submit for publication in The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library.

我的项目提出了玛丽沃德（1585-1645）的生平写作的第一个文学研究。作为天主教女孩教育的早期倡导者，沃德几代人都很受欢迎，事实上，她是一位激进的改革者，她的作品让我们得以接触到16世纪最独特的女性声音之一。作为约克郡叛教者的女儿，沃德逃到欧洲大陆，以实践她的信仰，并遵循一种献身于上帝的生活。然而，事情很快就变得很明显，她的不从众并不局限于新的圣公会秩序，她建立耶稣会女性分支的激进愿望（以及天主教皈依和殖民的国际项目）甚至会使她疏远那些她寻求盟友的人。因此，天主教会试图通过销毁她生活的所有书面记录来压制她的遗产。然而，忠实于她记忆的门徒们保存下来的各种遗物幸存下来，现在构成了曼彻斯特洛雷托学院和约克酒吧修道院档案的基础，现在是一个“活着的遗产中心”。利用这些档案和厄休拉·德梅尔于2007年出版的与沃德有关的所有资料的综合学术版，我将对由沃德撰写和关于沃德的女性撰写的文本进行首次跨学科研究。我的项目将把幸存的自传片段和她的追随者所写的简历与围绕“生活写作”研究的文学和批评辩论联系起来，并将它们纳入这一流派起源的经典文本中。我将首先评估沃德自传体片段中自我编辑的证据。我想问的是，这些注释、更正、删减和补充如何表明沃德参与了“生活”的创作过程，以及这在多大程度上是有意识的文学创作。然后，我将分析传记叙述和自传体片段之间差异的后果，并质疑这些修正在多大程度上是审美的，在多大程度上是实用的——这将涉及将文本置于复合女性写作和“生活写作”作为一种独特模式的出现的双重背景中。除了研究印刷文本与手稿来源相比如何展示编辑过程外，我还将询问翻译之间的差异是否构成有意识的编辑行为，以及一致性和差异如何表明某些“丢失”的英语来源的内容（因此可能是他们的“编辑-作者”的发明，修饰或个人回忆）。最后，我将探讨文本的“来世”，并考虑后续版本的含义，所有这些版本都是由属于沃德建立的命令的修女制作的。我会问，在后来的版本中，现存片段的构成和呈现是否产生了不同的叙述，以及每个编辑如何协商他们对沃德自我概念的表现，询问是否存在一个共同的想象身份，以及这如何与沃德在手稿来源中的自我表现相对应。我已经在研究约翰·里兰兹图书馆（John Rylands Library）保存的一份未经研究的手稿时，采用了类似的跨学科方法。我使用了正式的文学分析以及古代学和法典学来表明，都铎王朝的女性读者是如何通过在虔诚手稿的附加询问中“创作”注释来颠覆可接受的虔诚阅读惯例的。从不同学科的角度来探讨这个手稿的一系列文章将构成一篇文章的基础，我希望提交给《约翰·里兰兹图书馆公报》发表。