Travel Writing in Victorian Periodicals: Media Forms and Cultural Work

该项目是对英国文化研究的贡献，并调查了1850-1900年期间旅游在大众兴趣期刊中的代表性，当时英国在旅游业的兴起和期刊市场的快速扩张中发挥了主导作用。旅行与期刊文化之间的这种联系在很大程度上被忽视了，因为旅行写作研究往往集中在书籍出版物上。该项目旨在展示维多利亚时代的期刊如何根据其媒体逻辑配置旅行的代表性，以及这种媒体特定的代表性如何与文化功能（或文化工作）齐头并进。该项目提出，一般性兴趣期刊有助于将旅行纳入维多利亚文化，并使读者熟悉旅行的想法，其话语和实践。两个媒体的具体方面是至关重要的：第一，一般性的兴趣期刊通常呈现混合的内容和交织的维多利亚文化的其他主题的旅行;第二，期刊解决不同部分的阅读观众。因此，与旅游书籍相比，维多利亚时代对旅行的兴趣可以通过更广泛的社会范围和更细粒度的社会分类来探索。该项目确定了期刊在为旅行机会受到经济和/或社会限制的人提供旅行中介方面的特殊重要性。除其他因素外，这是由于期刊可以用单篇文章来描述旅行-一种适合描述小型（廉价和适度）旅行形式的小型形式。本项目以文化期刊研究的方法和概念，对7种不同受众的期刊进行调查。它为研究19世纪的旅游文化和旅游写作开辟了一个新的视角，但它也可以作为最近的旅游和日常媒体，如电视和今天的社交媒体星座的历史陪衬。

The project is a contribution to British cultural studies and investigates the representation of travel in general-interest periodicals for the period 1850–1900, when Britain played a leading role in the rise of tourism and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market. This nexus between travel and periodicals culture has been largely ignored because travel writing research has tended to focus on book publications. The project aims to demonstrate how Victorian periodicals configured the representation of travel according to their media logic, and how this media-specific representation went hand in hand with cultural functions (or cultural work). The project proposes that general-interest periodicals helped to inscribe travel into Victorian culture and to familiarise their readers with ideas of travel, its discourses and practices. Two media-specific aspects are of central importance here: firstly, general-interest periodicals typically presented mixed content and enlaced travel with other themes of Victorian culture; secondly, periodicals addressed different segments of the reading audience. The Victorian interest in travel can thus be explored with a wider social range and a more fine-grained social classification than for travel books. The project identifies a special importance of periodicals for mediating travel to people whose opportunities for travel were limited by economic and/or social restraints. Among other factors, this was enabled by the fact that periodicals can represent travel in single articles – a small form suitable for depicting small (cheap and modest) forms of travel. The project investigates a corpus of 7 periodicals for different audiences, with established methods and concepts of cultural periodical studies. It develops a new perspective for the study of nineteenth-century travel culture and travel writing, but it can also serve as a historical foil for more recent constellations of travel and everyday media such as television and today’s social media.