Memorialisation and Posthumous Curation: The Displacing of the Victorian Voice, Corpse and Corpus in an Evolving Heritage Sector

这篇跨学科的论文通过互文性的方法来研究奥斯卡·王尔德、查尔斯·狄更斯和乔治·艾略特的死后编辑，即将作者的纪念碑和纪念碑作为文本本身阅读。纪念碑，甚至是“纪念碑”这个词本身，都包含了这些雕像如何被保存下来的正式历史：为什么奥斯卡·王尔德的石像是以狮身人面像的形式被创造出来的？为什么狄更斯私葬的愿望被忽视了？为什么乔治·艾略特被安放在墓地里，而不是像人们所希望的那样，被安放在威斯敏斯特诗人的角落里？这篇论文的目的是利用这些过去的决定，并探索当前积极的作者纪念过程，考虑到这些实体致敬网站自建立以来受到的匿名更改，以及这些作者在数字音频时代编辑出版物的情况。本文将探讨文本编辑和作者经典化的三个相互关联的过程，从而引出以下研究问题：将实物纪念碑和纪念碑作为文本阅读的可能性在多大程度上？这项对大量作者纪念品的研究对文本语料库的编辑在构建死后声誉方面能带来什么新的启示？随着当前通过数字和音频媒体获取作者作品的转变，有形形式的纪念品和多卷集作品的这种物化遗产是如何实现的？这篇论文将建立在最近关于作者遗产的批判性学术研究的基础上，被提议的监督人约翰和利弗西在其中发挥了重要作用。这项研究将探索这些作者在打造自己的纪念品牌方面所扮演的角色，以及不断变化的公众如何记住和策划这些记忆。这篇论文的创新之处在于作者的身体和它通过纪念以及作者声音在有声读物中的置换而发生的置换。虽然有声读物似乎减少了与作者的身体接触，但不断变化的遗产部门对经验的重视为理解经典作家的神圣化和去神圣化提供了新的方法。所有这些问题都将被映射到所有三个编辑层次：实物纪念碑、文本纪念碑和有声读物。

This interdisciplinary thesis investigates the posthumous editing of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and George Eliot through the intertextual approach of reading memorials and monuments to the authors as texts themselves. Monuments, and indeed the term 'memorialise' itself, contains a formal history of how such figures have been preserved: why was Oscar Wilde's stone counterpart created in the form of a Sphinx? Why were Dickens's wishes for a private burial disregarded? Why was George Eliot placed, not in Westminster's Poet's corner as desired, but rather in a section of a cemetery designated for outcasts? The thesis aims to harness these past decisions and explore the current active processes of authorial memorialisation, considering the anonymous alteration imposed on these physical sites of homage since their erection alongside the editing of publications by these authors in a digital audio age. The thesis will explore three inter-related processes of textual editing and authorial canonization, leading to the following research questions: To what extent is it possible to read physical monuments and memorials as texts? What new light can this examination of material authorial memorials shed on the editing of the textual corpus in the construction of posthumous reputation?How is this materialized legacy of the tangible forms of memorials and multivolume collected works changing with the current shift to accessing the authors' works through digital and audio media?The thesis will build on recent critical scholarship on author heritage in which the proposed supervisors, John and Livesey, have taken an important role. The research will explore the role of these authors play in forging their own brand of memorialization and how changing publics have remembered and curate those memories. The innovative focus of this thesis is on the author's body and its displacement through memorialisation alongside the displacement of authorial voice in audiobooks. While the audio-book might seem to diminish the physical encounter with the author, the changing heritage sector emphasis on experience provides new ways to understand the sacralisation and de-sacrilisation of canonical authors. All of these questions will be mapped over all three tiers of editing: physical monuments, textual monuments and audiobooks.