Dickens and the Heritage Sector: Dickensland

拟博士研究方向：自作者去世后，与狄更斯有强烈联系的地点是如何被一系列利益（家人、粉丝、地方当局、媒体、商业旅游等）策划、消费和利用的。2. 作为想象空间的“狄更斯伦敦”/“狄更斯乐园”的建构。3. 真实的和想象中的“狄更斯乐园”对现代旅游业的价值。狄更斯博物馆（作者以前在布卢姆斯伯里的道蒂街的家）将提供研究基地，方便探索其历史、展览、游客信息和档案。后者包括世界上最大的未编目的狄更斯剪报收藏，记录了从1870年狄更斯去世到20世纪初的新闻中与狄更斯有关的所有事情；狄更斯协会的记录，这是一个由狄更斯学者和业余爱好者组成的世界性协会，出版狄更斯杂志，致力于保护狄更斯的遗产。此外，博物馆还拥有一个庞大的、未分类的藏品，这些藏品被安置在现场，以及关于狄更斯地形/步行的无与伦比的书籍收藏（狄更斯出版业蓬勃发展的一面）。该项目将以档案和经验为基础，但与已经提到的所有学科的理论框架进行对话。章节可能包括：1。旅游之都：概述了狄更斯一生中为狄更斯的城市旅游奠定基础的因素：19世纪伦敦城市地形旅游的繁荣（特别是大都市旅游指南的激增）；维多利亚时代对文学遗产的庆祝/商业利用和对作者的崇拜；注重保存建筑环境的文物敏感性的增长；以及狄更斯自己在小说中大量使用伦敦的地点/著名建筑/地标。2. 《发现狄更斯乐园》（Discovering Dickensland）：作者去世后不久，粉丝、旅游指南、记者们如何定义了“狄更斯乐园”的边界，为游客和文学朝圣者创造了一个现成的“圣地”，从那以后，这个“圣地”就一直被循环利用。本章将研究特定的地点是如何流行和过时的，而其他地点则是如何被添加或发明的；此外，狄更斯式的遗址如何经常成为关于不受约束的城市发展的争论的焦点。“拯救”克利夫兰街济贫院)。博物馆将充分利用大量收藏的狄更斯指南、狄更斯奖学金记录和新闻档案。3. 定义“狄更斯式”的城市：考察媒体如何在狄更斯死后“传承”他，强调他生活和工作中的关键主题，这些主题在公众的想象中定义了作者（例如圣诞节；欢乐；社会改革）。特别关注“狄更斯式”如何成为维多利亚时代伦敦贫民窟状况的新闻速记；以及新闻报道如何不仅塑造了公众对狄更斯、他的作品和他的环境的理解，而且塑造了维多利亚时代的伦敦本身。博物馆的新闻档案对于调查这一过程的早期阶段至关重要。本章还将考虑狄更斯博物馆和遗产产业如何对狄更斯伦敦的这种狭隘概念做出贡献（也挑战），特别是关于展览和展览。4. 想象狄更斯的伦敦：看看狄更斯的伦敦是如何在印刷媒体之外被描绘出来的，主要是在电影/电视/电子游戏中；还考虑了查塔姆已经倒闭的“狄更斯世界”主题公园。本章将探讨这些描写是否强化了城市苦难和贫民窟的刻板印象。

The proposed PhD will research: 1. How locations with strong Dickensian associations have been curated, consumed and exploited by a range of interests, ever since the author's death (family, fans, local authorities, the media, commercial tourism et al.). 2. The construction of 'Dickens' London' / 'Dickensland' as an imaginative space. 3. The value of both real and imagined 'Dickensland' to the modern tourist industry. The Dickens Museum (the author's former Doughty Street home in Bloomsbury) will provide the research base, facilitating exploration of its history, exhibitions, visitor information and archives. The latter includes the biggest uncatalogued collection of newspaper clippings relating to Dickens in the world, charting all things Dickensian in the news from Dickens's death in 1870 to the early twentieth century; the records of the Dickens Fellowship, a world-wide society of Dickens scholars and amateur enthusiasts which publishes the Dickensian magazine and whose mission is dedicated to preserving Dickens heritage. In addition, the Museum owns an expansive, uncatalogued collection of objects which is housed onsite and an unrivalled collection of books on Dickensian topography / walks (a thriving side of the Dickens publishing industry). The project will be archivally and empirically based, yet in dialogue with theoretical frames from all the disciplines already mentioned. Chapters might include: 1. The Tourist Capital: Outlines the factors during Dickens' lifetime which laid the groundwork for Dickensian urban tourism: the boom in urban topographical tourism in 19C London (particularly the proliferation of metropolitan guide-books); the Victorians' celebration/commercial exploitation of literary heritage and the cult of the author; the growth of a heritage sensibility focussed on preservation of the built environment; and Dickens' own extensive use of London locations/famous buildings/landmarks in his fiction. 2. Discovering Dickensland: Considers how fans/guidebooks/journalists defined the borders of 'Dickensland' soon after the author's death, creating a ready-made 'hallowed ground' of significant sites for tourists/literary pilgrims, which has been recycled ever since. The chapter will examine how particular locations have fallen in and out of fashion, whilst others have been added or invented; also, how Dickensian sites have often provided a focal point for debate about unchecked urban development (e.g. 'saving' the Cleveland Street workhouse). Full use will be made of the Museum's extensive collection of Dickensian guidebooks, records of the Dickensian Fellowship and press archive. 3. Defining the 'Dickensian' City: Examines how the media 'heritagised' Dickens after his death, emphasising key themes in his life and work which came to define the author in the public imagination (e.g. Christmas; conviviality; social reform). Focuses, in particular, on how 'Dickensian' became journalistic shorthand for slum conditions in Victorian London; and how press coverage has shaped not only public understanding of Dickens, his works and his milieu, but Victorian London itself. The Museum's press archive will be crucial to investigating the early stages of this process. This chapter will also consider how the Dickens Museum and the heritage industry have contributed to (and also challenged) this narrow conception of Dickens' London, with particular reference to displays and exhibitions. 4. Imagining Dickens' London: Looks at how 'Dickens' London' has been portrayed beyond print media, principally in films/TV/video games; also considers the defunct 'Dickens World' theme park at Chatham. The chapter will ask whether these portrayals reinforce the stereotype of urban suffering and slumdom.