Spectacle and Performance in the designed landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain

我的博士项目考虑了18世纪社会上层人士利用他们的景观作为令人印象深刻的空间来娱乐和娱乐自己的无数方式。本研究计画将探讨十八世纪英国乡间别墅景观中的景观与表演的本质。这将涉及评估如何在1740年至1820年之间的景观设计中更加关注景观概念，有助于将乡村庄园理解为精英和民族文化的空间和舞台。我将把乡村庄园和城市中心的景观设计放在前台，考虑以灯光秀和numachiae或模拟海军战斗的形式进行壮观的展示，将乡村别墅文化与商业和大都市的娱乐形式重新结合起来。这将使我们对艺术和海洋奇观在多大程度上渗透到18世纪的大众文化和精英文化中进行深入的研究。我的研究将坐在社会，文化和艺术史，海事历史研究和文学研究之间的交叉点，展示了在与奇观和表演有关的研究领域进行跨学科研究的价值。该项目将把这些空间视为提供文化和艺术发展新历史的途径。此外，它的资源基础将包括不列颠群岛的一系列房屋和景观，允许仔细考虑跨地理边界的景观表演所鼓励的政治和文化影响。

My doctoral project considers the myriad of ways that the higher echelons of eighteenth-century society used their landscapes as impressive spaces in which to entertain and amuse themselves. This research project will explore the nature of spectacle and performance in British country house landscapes during the eighteenth century. This will involve evaluating how a greater attention to the concept of spectacle in designed landscapes between 1740 and 1820 can contribute to understanding country estates as spaces and stages of elite, and national, culture. I will foreground the designed landscapes of country estates and urban centres in tandem to consider spectacular displays in the form of light shows and numachiae, or mock naval battles, to reintegrate country house culture with commercial and metropolitan forms of entertainment. This will foreground investigation into the extent to which artistic and maritime spectacle permeates both popular and elite culture in the eighteenth century. My research will sit within intersections between social, cultural and art history, maritime historical studies and literary studies demonstrating the value of pursuing an interdisciplinary study across research fields concerned with spectacle and performance. The project will consider these spaces as avenues through which to offer new histories of culture and artistic development. Furthermore, its resource base will include a range of houses and landscapes across the British Isles, allowing for careful consideration of the political and cultural influences that the performance of spectacle encouraged across geographical boundaries.