The reception of female singers in nineteenth-century Britain, focusing on Jenny Lind (1820-1887)

这个项目调查了十九世纪英国主要女歌手受到欢迎的问题。它利用了迄今为止尚未开发的大量原始资料，专注于将珍妮·林德打造成一个文化偶像，并伴随着神话和现实之间的差距。它从文化的角度分析了杰出女歌手的概念，包括音乐问题，从表演到歌剧行业的既得利益，以及文化和社会因素。它考虑了她们的公众形象是如何受到盛行的女性礼仪意识形态的影响，包括长期确立的对戏剧道德的看法。主要的产出将是一部专著。其他产出将包括在会议和研讨会上发表的文章和论文。我的发现说明了一系列因素(包括民族主义和仇外心理、对财富和慈善事业的态度以及宗教信仰)在塑造女歌手的公众声誉方面的重要性。我的作品将是第一部将女歌手置于更广泛的社会文化背景下的出版作品。通过提供新的方法和背景框架，我的项目将对19世纪的英国研究产生积极的影响，特别是对研究界。

This project investigates issues that shaped the reception of leading female singers in nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing upon a wealth of hitherto untapped primary sources, it focuses on the construction of Jenny Lind as a cultural icon with its attendant disparities between myth and reality. It analyses the conceptualizing of outstanding women singers within a cultural perspective that embraces musical issues, ranging from performance to the vested interests of the opera business, together with cultural and social factors. It considers how their public image was conditioned by prevailing ideologies of female decorum, including long-established views of the morality of the theatre. The primary output will be a monograph. Further outputs will include articles and papers given at conferences and seminars. My findings illustrate the importance of a broad array of factors (including nationalism and xenophobia, attitudes towards wealth and philanthropy, and religious conviction) in shaping the public reputations of female singers. Mine will be the first published work to place women singers in this wider socio-cultural context. By supplying new approaches and contextual frameworks my project will have a positive impact on nineteenth-century British studies in general, especially for the research community.