Region and Regency: national and regional identity in early nineteenth century female bildungsroman

本文将探讨浪漫主义时期女性成长小说和求爱小说中的地域和民族身份，这是一种通常被研究以洞察性别政治的体裁（例如Kirkham，1983，吉尔伯特和Gubar，1979）。与此相反，本项目将探讨简·奥斯汀（英国）、玛丽亚·埃奇沃思（爱尔兰）和苏珊·费里尔（苏格兰）的小说中使用的地区和国家身份的想法。该项目的主要目标是：为了确定地理身份是如何呈现的，例如通过方言，食物，名称和景观的象征性使用，为了探索区域和民族身份如何影响作家的接受和声誉，无论是在他们的一生中还是死后，为了检查出版的小说和未出版的作品中区域性和民族性呈现之间的差异，为了调查这些作家在为公众准备作品时是否修改了地缘政治标记。这项研究将建立在我的本科学习漫长的十八世纪（“会说话的马”，“自我和世界”），学士学位论文的食物在奥斯汀的少年，和硕士学位论文的食物在费里尔的小说。它还将建立在“文学史”，“地方，地区和帝国”和“文本”的MA模块上，这些模块正在磨练我对接收，文学地理，文本和文本的理解。这个项目理想地以诺丁汉大学为中心，Pratt教授是浪漫主义和声誉恢复方面的专家，Ni Fhlathuin博士专门研究浪漫主义女性的写作和民族身份，区域文学和文化中心正在举办2019年英国浪漫主义研究协会会议，这将为我提供独特的网络，传播和发展机会。我也将受益于詹姆斯博士（莱斯特）的跨机构监督，他在女性作家接待方面的工作补充了我的项目。

This thesis will explore regional and national identity in Romantic period female bildungsroman and courtship novels, a genre usually studied for insights into gender politics (e.g. Kirkham, 1983, Gilbert and Gubar, 1979). In contrast, this project will explore the use of ideas of regional and national identityin the fictions of Jane Austen (England), Maria Edgeworth (Ireland) and Susan Ferrier (Scotland). The project's main aims are: To determine how geographical identities are presented, for example through the symbolic use of dialect speech, food, names and landscape, To explore how regional and national identities impact on writers' reception and reputation, both in their lifetimes and posthumously, To examine the difference between presentations of regionality and nationhood in published fictions and unpublished works, in order to investigate whether these writers modified geopolitical markerswhen preparing their work for a public audience. This research will build on my undergraduate studies of the long eighteenth century ('Talking Horses', 'Self and the World'), BA dissertation on food in Austen's juvenilia, and MA dissertation on food in Ferrier's novels. It will also build on MA modules on 'Literary Histories', 'Place, Region and Empire' and 'Textualities', which are honing my understanding of reception, literary geography, text and textediting. This project is ideally centred on the University of Nottingham, Professor Pratt is an expert in Romanticism and the recovery of reputations, Dr Ni Fhlathuin specialises in Romantic women's writing and national identities, and the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture is hosting the 2019 British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, which will provide me with unique networking, dissemination and development opportunities. I will also benefit from cross-institutional supervision by Dr James (Leicester), whose work on the reception of women writers complements my project.