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A working woman's topography: working class female poets' responses to land and labour in England 1730-1789' and 'Gig'

职业女性的地形：工人阶级女诗人对 1730-1789 年英国土地和劳动力的反应”和“Gig”

基本信息

批准号：
2489053
负责人：
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：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2489053
关键词：
working woman topography class female

项目摘要

The creative component will be a poetry collection, provisionally titled 'Gig': approximately 40 topographical poems. Many poems will represent labour, and articulate discourses of labour. The critical component will be a study of working-class women's topographical representations of labour in eighteenth-century poetry. Creative ComponentMy collection will build on the works of cultural-geographer poets such as Alice Oswald, Karen Solie, Jean Sprackland and Peter Riley.I am inspired by the Georgic poets' enthusiasm for the prosaic. I will rise to their challenge and write poetry about Uber drivers and road re-surfacing. My collection will engage, not just with idealised dry-stone wallers and poachers, but unsited software engineers and telesales executives. I will articulate contradictory discourses on work - how it can support or destroy our health. I am interested in how labour forms a place. In Calderdale, the legacy of eighteenth-century transport infrastructure and enclosure is still apparent. This is in our physical environment and in how enclosure changed labour and the relationship to land - shaping concepts of ownership, responsibility and landscape aesthetics. Eighteenth-century growth of unsecure wage-labour echoes our gig-economy. Continuity and discontinuity can be seen in job titles, e.g. pinder, vlogger.Poems will include: a late-night taxi driver; a swimming-pool maintenance person and where the water comes from; the workers who put causey-stones in but have no headstones themselves. The poems will be very varied in tone and form; using dramatic monologue and found poetry e.g. from Calderdale Local Collection. The collection will be deepened by intertextuality. Using an innovative layout, I will include found text, both modern and historical, to be read alongside the poems, throwing them into relief.Community engagement is integral to the creative component. After desk-based research into labour discourses, e.g. public health, I shall interview and work-shadow white and blue collar workers. Critical ComponentThe English georgic dominated the first half of the century and much critical work has been done on these poems. The georgic, with 'masculine' themes of labour and agriculture, appears to be male dominated. Since Lonsdale's anthology of women poets in 1989, academics such as Landry, Milne and Ingrassia have firmly re-placed female poets in this period of literary history. Yet, thirty years on, their poetry remains under-studied. Very few women poets have their own scholarly editions; and of the working-class poets, only Mary Leapor has been accorded this attention, in 2003. As Landry writes: "No sooner had the question 'Were there any?' been answered by Roger Lonsdale's ground-breaking anthology[...]when sceptics enquired 'Were they any good?' " My PhD will build on the work of pioneers in the field of women's, and working-class, literary history. I am part of the second wave of scholarship that sees these previously excluded poets, not as novelties or anomalies, but a neglected part of literary history, worthy of critical interest.The two research questions are: what is working-class female poets' contribution to the shifting treatment of labour and land through the mid-late century; particularly, their response to the male-dominated English georgic? Secondly, does treating these poets as a group reveal insights about their treatment of topographical labour? This study aims, not to look at a poet(s) complete output, but to more accurately place and read a group of poets within literary historical context.

创作部分将是一本诗集，暂定名为“吉格”：大约40首地形诗。许多诗歌将表现劳动，并阐明劳动的话语。关键的组成部分将是一个工人阶级妇女的劳动在十八世纪的诗歌地形表示的研究。我的收藏将建立在文化地理学家诗人的作品上，如爱丽丝·奥斯瓦尔德、凯伦·索利、让·斯普拉克兰和彼得·莱利。我将迎接他们的挑战，写关于优步司机和道路重新铺设的诗歌。我的收藏不仅会吸引理想化的干石沃勒斯和偷猎者，还会吸引未被选中的软件工程师和销售主管。我将阐述关于工作的相互矛盾的论述--它如何支持或破坏我们的健康。我感兴趣的是劳动如何形成一个地方。在卡尔德代尔，18世纪的交通基础设施和围栏的遗产仍然很明显。这是在我们的物理环境中，也是在圈地如何改变劳动力以及与土地的关系--塑造所有权、责任和景观美学的概念中。18世纪无保障的雇佣劳动的增长与我们的零工经济相呼应。连续性和不连续性可以在工作头衔中看到，例如pinder，vlogger。诗歌包括：深夜出租车司机;游泳池维修人员和水的来源;工人们把Causey-stones放进去，但他们自己没有墓碑。诗歌将在语气和形式上非常多样;使用戏剧性的独白和发现诗歌，例如从卡尔德代尔当地收集。互文性将使这一系列作品更加丰富。使用创新的布局，我将包括发现文本，现代和历史，一起阅读的诗歌，把他们投入救济。社区参与是不可或缺的创造性的组成部分。在对劳工话语（例如公共卫生）进行案头研究后，我将采访和跟踪白色和蓝领工人。英国的georgic占主导地位的世纪上半叶和许多批评工作已经做了这些诗。农事，与劳动和农业的“男性”主题，似乎是男性主导。自1989年朗斯代尔的《女诗人选集》问世以来，兰德里、米尔恩和英格拉西亚等学者坚定地将女性诗人重新置于这一文学史时期。然而，30年过去了，他们的诗歌仍然没有得到充分的研究。很少有女诗人有自己的学术版本;在工人阶级诗人中，只有玛丽·利波在2003年获得了这种关注。正如兰德里所写：“很快就有了这样的问题：”有吗？罗杰·朗斯代尔（Roger Lonsdale）的开创性选集[...]当怀疑者问到“它们有什么好处吗？“我的博士学位将建立在妇女和工人阶级文学史领域先驱的工作基础上。我是第二波学术的一部分，看到这些以前被排除在外的诗人，而不是新奇或异常，但被忽视的文学史的一部分，值得批判的interests.The两个研究问题是：什么是工人阶级的女性诗人的劳动和土地的转移通过中晚期世纪的待遇的贡献，特别是，他们对男性主导的英语georgic的反应？第二，把这些诗人作为一个群体来对待，是否揭示了他们对地形劳动的处理？本研究的目的，不是看一个诗人（s）的完整输出，但更准确地放置和阅读文学历史背景下的一组诗人。