Memorialisation and Posthumous Curation: The Displacing of the Victorian Voice, Corpse and Corpus in an Evolving Heritage Sector

这篇跨学科的论文研究了奥斯卡·王尔德，查尔斯·狄更斯和乔治·艾略特死后的编辑，通过互文的方法阅读作者的纪念和纪念碑作为文本本身。纪念碑，以及“纪念”这个词本身，包含了这些雕像是如何被保存下来的正式历史：为什么奥斯卡·王尔德的石像会以狮身人面像的形式被创造出来？为什么狄更斯私葬的愿望被忽视了？为什么乔治·艾略特没有像人们期望的那样被安置在威斯敏斯特的诗人角落，而是被安置在一个为流浪者指定的墓地里？本文旨在利用这些过去的决定，探索当前活跃的作者纪念过程，考虑到这些致敬的物理地点自建立以来的匿名改变，以及这些作者在数字音频时代对出版物的编辑。本文将探讨文本编辑和作者册封的三个相互关联的过程，导致以下研究问题：在多大程度上可以将物理纪念碑和纪念馆视为文本？这种对作者纪念物材料的考察，对文本语料库的编辑在构建死后声誉方面有什么新的启示？随着当前通过数字和音频媒体访问作者作品的转变，这种有形形式的纪念馆和多卷文集的物质化遗产是如何变化的？这篇论文将建立在最近关于作者遗产的批判性学术研究的基础上，其中拟议的导师约翰和利弗西发挥了重要作用。这项研究将探讨这些作者在塑造他们自己的纪念品牌方面所扮演的角色，以及不断变化的公众如何记住和管理这些记忆。这篇论文的创新重点是作者的身体和它的位移通过纪念与作者的声音在有声读物的位移。虽然有声书似乎减少了与作者的身体接触，但不断变化的遗产部门强调经验，为理解正典作者的神圣化和去神圣化提供了新的途径。所有这些问题将映射到所有三个层次的编辑：物理纪念碑，文本纪念碑和有声读物。

This interdisciplinary thesis investigates the posthumous editing of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and George Eliot through the intertextual approach of reading memorials and monuments to the authors as texts themselves. Monuments, and indeed the term 'memorialise' itself, contains a formal history of how such figures have been preserved: why was Oscar Wilde's stone counterpart created in the form of a Sphinx? Why were Dickens's wishes for a private burial disregarded? Why was George Eliot placed, not in Westminster's Poet's corner as desired, but rather in a section of a cemetery designated for outcasts? The thesis aims to harness these past decisions and explore the current active processes of authorial memorialisation, considering the anonymous alteration imposed on these physical sites of homage since their erection alongside the editing of publications by these authors in a digital audio age. The thesis will explore three inter-related processes of textual editing and authorial canonization, leading to the following research questions: To what extent is it possible to read physical monuments and memorials as texts? What new light can this examination of material authorial memorials shed on the editing of the textual corpus in the construction of posthumous reputation?How is this materialized legacy of the tangible forms of memorials and multivolume collected works changing with the current shift to accessing the authors' works through digital and audio media?The thesis will build on recent critical scholarship on author heritage in which the proposed supervisors, John and Livesey, have taken an important role. The research will explore the role of these authors play in forging their own brand of memorialization and how changing publics have remembered and curate those memories. The innovative focus of this thesis is on the author's body and its displacement through memorialisation alongside the displacement of authorial voice in audiobooks. While the audio-book might seem to diminish the physical encounter with the author, the changing heritage sector emphasis on experience provides new ways to understand the sacralisation and de-sacrilisation of canonical authors. All of these questions will be mapped over all three tiers of editing: physical monuments, textual monuments and audiobooks.