Sir John Gardner Wilkinson: cultures of antiquarianism in Egypt, Europe and England

这个项目将采用历史地理学的方法来研究加德纳·威尔金森（1797-1875）的一生，他以奠定现代英国埃及学的基础而闻名（汤普森，1992）。他对其他地区的研究，特别是对巴尔干半岛和史前英国的研究，被他对埃及的研究所掩盖，很少被研究。我将在其文化和历史背景下探讨考古和古物知识的生产（Nikolau, 2017）。这将通过分析他在牛津大学收藏的大量旅行日记和速写本，以及通过研究他在卡尔克修道院的国家信托基金会收藏的大量图书馆来完成。我打算在Heringham（2013）的认识基础上，修正古董商对英国的狭隘关注的观念，即许多到海外旅行的英国人也可以被视为古董商，威尔金森就是其中之一。特别是，我将借鉴赫林厄姆关于“知识工作者”的概念：威尔金森虽然拥有独立的收入，但仍然可以这样描述，因为他的业余但开创性的方法通过他的书广泛传播知识（威尔金森，1837;1843;1847）。这篇论文将借鉴我在19世纪和20世纪初英国游客到埃及的本科论文中获得的经验，特别是关于健康旅游。为此，我使用了出版的旅行写作，包括威尔金森的书，以及八个档案馆的手稿。我的研究表明，参观、绘画和描述埃及的古文物被视为一种补充医学：这里的景观具有治疗作用。我目前正在通过一篇关于英国军队在埃及的硕士论文进一步发展这个话题。此外，文化地理模块提供了使用视觉资源的见解，而帝国主义硕士模块因其关注旅行和殖民遭遇而非常有价值。

This project will take a historical geographical approach to studying the life of Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) who is best known for laying the foundations on which modern British Egyptology is built (Thompson, 1992). His research on other areas, particularly on the Balkans and prehistoric Britain, has been obscured by his work on Egypt and little studied. I will approach the production of archaeological and antiquarian knowledge in its cultural and historical context (Nikolau, 2017). This will be done by analyzing his extensive collection of travel journals and sketchbooks held at the Bodleian and through the study of his extensive library, held by the National Trust at Calke Abbey. Revising notions that antiquaries had an insular preoccupation with Britain, I intend to build on Heringham's (2013) recognition that many Britons travelling overseas could also be considered antiquaries, Wilkinson among them. In particular, I will draw on Heringham's idea of the 'knowledge worker': Wilkinson, though possessed of an independent income, can still be described in this way as his amateur yet pioneering approach disseminated knowledge widely through his books (Wilkinson, 1837; 1843; 1847).The thesis will draw on experience gained during my undergraduate dissertation, on British travellers to Egypt in the C19th and early C20th, with particular reference to health tourism. For this, I used published travel writing, including books by Wilkinson, alongside manuscripts in eight archives. My research suggested that visiting, drawing and describing antiquarian aspects of Egypt were seen as a form of complementary medicine: the landscape was therapeutic. I am currently developing this topic further, through an MA dissertation on the British army in Egypt. Additionally, modules on cultural geography have given insights into using visual sources, while an MA module on imperialism has been very valuable because of its focus on travel and colonial encounters.