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

这个项目将创作一本加辛顿庄园1915-1918年的文化传记，并询问它在现代主义文化形成中的重要意义。我将首先研究档案材料，包括大英图书馆的奥托琳·莫雷尔夫人论文、麦克马斯特大学的伯特兰·罗素论文、哈里·兰瑟姆中心的奥特琳·莫雷尔收藏以及诺丁汉大学的D.H.劳伦斯收藏以及纽卡斯尔和波特兰论文，以创建嘉宾、事件和在加辛顿发生的对话的时间表。我将把这项档案研究置于一个关键框架内，借鉴雷蒙德·威廉姆斯的理论，包括“情感结构”，这“表明了一群作家的某些共同特征，但也表明了其他作家在特定历史情况下的某些共同特征”(Williams，1971)。探索现代主义的社会和文化建设，从特定地点(加辛顿)和时间(第一次世界大战)的居民与他们创造的文学文本的经验中脱颖而出。威廉姆斯的理论通过各种形式的分析，鼓励人们超越特定和孤立的产品--“文本”--到它的真正过程--它最活跃和具体的形成“，并解决了”历史和社会学都对它们感到不安“的困难，以及”作为一个普遍的和社会事实“研究文化群体的重要性(Williams，1971,1980)。因此，通过运用威廉姆斯的理论，我将能够将加辛顿的生活写作和主要的现代主义文本联系起来，进行对话，以论证对那里的经历如何个人和集体地感受到现代主义的出现的新理解。现代主义不仅是一种文学风格，而且是一种文化形成。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造的持续兴趣的基础上，我在我的学士学位论文(一等)中展示了印象主义对弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的第一部高度现代主义小说--雅各布的房间--的影响。我的硕士论文(区分)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构建，为新的分析他向现代主义的过渡提供了基础。我的硕士学位是由D.H.劳伦斯研究中心资助的，通过我在D.H.劳伦斯学会通讯中的编辑角色和对研究中心的贡献，我有机会进一步研究现代主义。最后，在为大学工作期间，我在他们的档案中进行了一次借调，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.