Garsington Manor and the Emergence of English Literary Modernism: A Cultural Biography

这个项目将创建一个文化传记加辛顿庄园，从1915年至1918年，并询问它是如何在现代主义的文化形成的重要性。我将开始研究档案材料，包括大英图书馆的莫瑞尔夫人论文，麦克马斯特大学的伯特兰罗素论文，哈里兰森中心的莫瑞尔收藏和诺丁汉大学的D. H。劳伦斯收藏和纽卡斯尔和波特兰文件，以创建一个时间轴的客人，事件和对话发生在加辛顿。我将设置这个档案研究的关键框架，借鉴雷蒙德威廉姆斯的理论，包括'结构的感觉'，其中'表明某些共同特点，在一组作家，但也有其他人在特定的历史情况下'（威廉姆斯，1971），探索现代主义的社会和文化建设，从一个特定的地方（加辛顿）和时间（一战）的居民的经验中浮现出来，与他们创造的文学文本有关。威廉姆斯的理论鼓励“通过不同形式的分析，超越特定和孤立的产品--"文本”--进入其真实的的过程--其最活跃和具体的形成“，并解决”历史和社会学都对它们感到不安“的困难，以及”作为一般和社会事实“研究文化群体的重要性（威廉姆斯，1971，1980）。因此，通过使用威廉姆斯的理论，我将能够吸引加辛顿的生活写作和关键的现代主义文本进入连接和对话，以争取一个新的理解如何体验那里，无论是个人和集体，导致了现代主义的出现，这不仅是一种文学风格，也是一种文化形态。这个项目建立在我的学术经验和对英语最初创作的持续兴趣之上文学现代主义，我在我的学士学位论文（一等）中展示了印象派对弗吉尼亚伍尔夫的第一部高度现代主义小说的影响，雅各布的房间，我的硕士学位论文（区别），研究了传记证据和劳伦斯在彩虹中的现代主义风格的初步构建，为他向现代主义过渡的新分析提供了基础。我的硕士学位是由D. H资助的。劳伦斯研究中心，这使我有机会进一步研究现代主义，通过我的编辑作用的D. H。劳伦斯社会通讯和贡献的研究中心。最后，在为大学工作的同时，我在他们的档案馆内进行了借调，这为我提供了如何最好地研究和使用档案材料的经验。

This project will create a cultural biography of Garsington Manor, from 1915-1918, and ask how it was significant in the cultural formation of Modernism. I will begin by examining archival material, including the British Library's Lady Ottoline Morrell Papers, McMaster University's Bertrand Russell papers, Harry Ransom Centre's Ottoline Morrell Collection and the University of Nottingham's D.H. Lawrence Collection and Newcastle and Portland Papers, to create a timeline of the guests, events and conversations that took place at Garsington.I will set this archival research within a critical frame that draws upon Raymond Williams' theories, including 'structures of feeling' which 'indicate certain common characteristics in a group of writers but also of others in a particular historical situation' (Williams, 1971), to explore the social and cultural construction of modernism, emerging out of the experiences of the inhabitants of a particular place (Garsington) and time (WWI) in connection with the literary texts that they created. Williams' theories encourage, 'by varying forms of analysis, to go beyond the particular and isolated product - 'the text' -to its real process - its most active and specific formation' and address both the difficulty, 'both history and sociology are uneasy with them', and importance, 'as a general and social fact', of studying cultural groups (Williams, 1971, 1980). Therefore, by using Williams' theories, I will be able to draw Garsington life-writing and key modernist texts into connection and dialogue to argue for a new understanding of how the experiences felt there, both personally and collectively, led to the emergence of modernism a snot only a literary style but also a cultural formation.This project builds upon my academic experience and continued interest in the initial creation of English literary modernism which I demonstrated in my BA dissertation (First-class) on the influence of Impressionism on Virginia Woolf's first highly modernist novel, Jacob's Room, and my MA dissertation(Distinction) which examined biographical evidence and Lawrence's initial construction of a modernist style in The Rainbow together to provide a foundation for a new analysis of his transition into modernism. My Masters was funded by the D.H. Lawrence Research Centre which allowed me the opportunity for further study of modernism through my editorial role of the D.H. Lawrence Society Newsletter and contributions to the research centre. Finally, whilst working for the university, I undertook a secondment within their archives which provided me with experience in how to best research and use archival material.