[Training Grant] Literary Mapping: Dickens and the Dynamics of Place
Ente: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Scadenza: 2014-09-29
Importo max: 60.250 EUR
Paese: GB
Descrizione
Along with a large collection of nineteenth-century maps of London and topographical materials, The Museum of London (MoL) holds a series of 41 watercolours painted 1860-1870 by J.L. Stewart of 'real places' in Dickens's novels. The Bishopsgate Institute holds a further 60 Victorian watercolours of Dickensian places. Other holdings at MoL include paintings, panoramas, and stereographic images; the covers and illustrations of the serial parts of Dickens's novels; later book-edition illustrations; the archives of Dickensian tourism at MoL (and at the Dickens House Museum), including plans of 'Dickens Walks' and Victorian 'Dickens' souvenirs. MoL also holds significant theatrical collections and large collections of photographs of London. To mark the bicentenary of Dickens's birth in 2012, a major exhibition will run at MoL from December 2011-June 2012, with an international tour to follow. The student would use the exhibition as a significant research resource for thinking about the continuing fascination with the geography of Dickens's London. S/he would be involved in creating a 'Dickens Walk' for the exhibition, also delivered through an phone app, and in running and presenting at events connected to it, as well as in detailed evaluation of its visitor response. \nApplications will be invited which address some or all of the following research questions:\nWas Dickens the only author whose work was mapped so closely to the 'real' during -and after - his lifetime? (comparators could be Scott, Hardy, Wordsworth) \nHow does the map of Dickens's places change over the nineteenth century?\nHow does an ever more pervasive print culture generate new ideas of 'place' and create specific 'places'?\nHow does the representation of place in 'fact-based' articles in Household Words and All the Year Round compare to Dickens's versions in the novels? (Significant places might include: Newgate, bridges, coaching inns, law courts, London churchyards, the City, and what Dickens called 'fairy land': the places of entertainment and theatre). \nHow did Dickens's own travels affect his construction of the provincial and the global? (Locations which might be considered include: the cities of Boston in the US; Paris; Rome and its ruins, Rochester, Preston, Broadstairs). \nHow did Dickens's texts themselves travel? How did his American and/or colonial readers in his lifetime interpret his sense of place? \nWhat was the impact of photography, and -later- film, on the poetics of place and particularly of London? Conversely, what was Dickens's influence on filmic 'placing' - in the early films of Griffith and Eisenstein, for example?\nWhat happens to place when it becomes distanced in time? How do we reconstruct Dickens's places today? \nWhat have been the effects of the heritage industry and mass culture on Dickens's work?\nThere has been much debate about 'place' as historically contingent process in recent years. The thesis will engage with work generated by scholars of
Settori: English Language and Literature
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