Regional Writing in a Time of Nation-Building

我的项目的核心目标是更好地了解威廉·巴恩斯的生活和作品。威廉·巴恩斯今天最出名的是一位默默无闻的19世纪多塞特方言诗人，但这对他和他的作品造成了极大的伤害。巴恩斯不仅写方言诗，还写标准的英国诗，他写的非小说类作品涉及考古学、文献学、历史学、经济学和社会评论等多个主题。此外，他还兼写了这些作品。因此，要充分理解巴恩斯，我们必须认识到他作品内在的相互联系。当我们看到巴恩斯作品的互联性时，我们就会看到他对西南方言诗歌以外的影响的程度。我的研究的第一个维度是通过对巴恩斯的剪贴簿进行分析，并以他女儿写的巴恩斯传记为支撑，来论证巴恩斯写作的互联性。这些资源只被学者用来提供传记背景，以支持对特定巴恩斯主题的重点研究。将这些材料作为主要文本，将揭示巴恩斯的折衷写作及其创作环境的接近程度。我的研究的第二个维度建立在第一个维度上，通过考察巴恩斯的多塞特的文化生态。巴恩斯是他担任教师和校长的社区的中心人物，因此他积极地与人们和他们的环境接触，这反映在他的诗歌中，也反映在他的非虚构作品中，特别是他在多塞特内外发表的考古和哲学著作。这一部分将驳斥巴恩斯只是一位怀旧的本土化作家的观点，展示他的作品如何描绘出人、语言和环境在整个时间和空间中不断变化的关系。我们习惯于谈论哈代的多塞特，而哈代是威廉·巴恩斯的导师和朋友。我也很兴奋地考察了这两位作家是如何探索文化和物理空间的。我研究的最后一部分将评估巴恩斯的作品在他在世期间和之后是如何被接受和调和的，以及他的作品如何有助于人们对西方国家文化的看法。反思前几节的发现，以及我们对巴恩斯写作的新的相互关联的理解，我将通过以下问题来结束我的研究：*谁或什么影响了与巴恩斯及其写作的接触？*这些影响揭示了巴恩斯写作倾向于代表地区和国家认同的倾向？*对巴恩斯及其写作的更全面的理解将如何改变这些观念？

My project's core objective is to bring a greater understanding of the life and works of William Barnes.William Barnes is best known today as an obscure, retrospective, nineteenth-century Dorset dialect poet, but this does him and his works a great disservice. Barnes did not just write dialect poetry, but standard English poetry, and wrote non-fiction on a diverse range of subjects including archaeology, philology, history, economics and social commentary. Moreover, he wrote these works concurrently. To fully understand Barnes, then, we must recognise the inherent interconnectedness of his works. When we see the interconnectedness of his works, we see the extent of his influence beyond south west dialect poetry.The first dimension of my study is designed to demonstrate the interconnectedness of Barnes' writing by carrying out analysis on Barnes' scrapbooks, supported by the biography of Barnes written by his daughter. These resources have only ever been used by academics to provide biographical background to support to focused studies on specific Barnes topics. Engaging with these materials as primary texts will reveal a great deal about the proximity of Barnes' eclectic writings and the circumstances of their composition.The second dimension of my study builds on the first by looking at the cultural ecology of Barnes' Dorset. Barnes was a central figure in the communities he served as a teacher and a rector, so was actively engaged with the people and their environment which is reflected in his poetry but also his non-fiction, particularly his archaeological and philological writing that was published in and out of Dorset. This section will refute the idea that Barnes was solely a nostalgic, localised writer, showing how his works chart the changing relationship of people, language and the environment throughout time and space. We are used to talking about Hardy's Dorset, and Hardy was a mentor and friend of William Barnes. I am excited to examine how the cultural and physical spaces were explored by the two writers, too.The final section of my study will evaluate how Barnes' writing has been received and reconceived during and after his lifetime and how his writing has contributed to perceptions of west country culture. Reflecting on the findings of the previous sections, and our new interconnected understanding of Barnes' writing, I will conclude my study by asking: * Who, or what, has influenced encounters with Barnes and his writing? * What do these influences reveal about the propensity of Barnes' writing to represent notions of regional and national identity? * How will a more holistic understanding of Barnes and his writing alter these notions?