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

这个项目将创建一个嘉辛顿庄园的文化传记，从1915年到1918年，并探讨它在现代主义文化形成中的重要意义。我将首先检查档案材料，包括大英图书馆的Ottoline Morrell夫人文件，麦克马斯特大学的Bertrand Russell文件，Harry Ransom中心的Ottoline Morrell收藏品，诺丁汉大学的D.H. Lawrence收藏品以及纽卡斯尔和波特兰文件，以创建一个来宾，事件和谈话的时间表。我将把这个档案研究放在一个关键的框架内，借鉴雷蒙德·威廉姆斯的理论，包括“情感结构”，它“表明了一群作家的某些共同特征，也表明了特定历史情境下的其他人的共同特征”（威廉姆斯，1971），探索现代主义的社会和文化建构，从特定地点（嘉辛顿）和时间（第一次世界大战）的居民的经历中出现，与他们创造的文学文本有关。威廉姆斯的理论鼓励“通过各种形式的分析，超越特定的和孤立的产品——‘文本’——到它的真实过程——它最活跃和具体的形成”，并解决了研究文化群体的困难，“历史学和社会学都对它们感到不安”，以及“作为一般和社会事实”的重要性（威廉姆斯，1971年，1980年）。因此，通过使用威廉姆斯的理论，我将能够将嘉辛顿的生活写作和关键的现代主义文本联系起来并进行对话，以争论对个人和集体在那里感受到的经历如何导致现代主义的出现的新理解，现代主义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国文学现代主义最初创作的持续兴趣的基础上，我在我的学士学位论文（一级）中展示了印象派对弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫第一部高度现代主义小说《雅各布的房间》的影响，以及我的硕士论文（Distinction），这篇论文考察了传记证据和劳伦斯在《彩虹》中对现代主义风格的初步建构，为重新分析他向现代主义的转变提供了基础。我的硕士学位是由D.H.劳伦斯研究中心资助的，这使我有机会通过担任D.H.劳伦斯学会通讯的编辑和向研究中心投稿来进一步研究现代主义。最后，在为大学工作期间，我在他们的档案馆进行了借调，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.