Eighteenth-Century Women and 'the Weak' - the cultural milieu of Charity and Mother-Child Relationship

十八世纪女性与“弱者”——慈善与母子关系的文化环境

基本信息

批准号：
14510511
负责人：
SUZUKI Mika
金额：
$ 2.11万
依托单位：
Shizuoka University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2002
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2002 至 2005
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-14510511/
关键词：
the eighteenth-century Britain women literature charity diary, journal and letters care childbirth 母子関係日記手紙

项目摘要

The aim of this research was to examine women's activities and their self-analysis in eighteenth-century Britain, depending on reading of the Althorp manuscript materials and published literature. My focus was on care on the caregiver's part as well as on the side of the cared in the age of 'sensibility' when people paid particular attention to sympathetic reactions to the weak and the unfortunate and felt it was the trend in their everyday life as well as literary.My stay in London during the summer in 2003 was fruitful, enabling reading of the Althorp papers in the Manuscript collection at the British Library and of published Magdalen books. Two of my papers - and another to be submitted - are direct products of this reading. One investigated the relationship between the benefactor and the needy in the site of personal charity. It examined the interesting relationship between life and literature and between a wealthy woman and one of the petitioners, which was established and supported by the reading and writing habits of the two women. A second paper is on the perception of the ‘unfortunate' women in an organized charity. It analyses the changing attitudes to prostitutes and the role of the charity. The charitable organization tried to persuade people to regard prostitutes as a victim, an unfortunate woman. This was helpful in establishing the organization, in inviting sympathetic response, especially from women, and in collecting donation. However, it also helped to define, from a formerly amorphous group of pickpockets, whores, vagabonds and nightwalkers, a helpless prostitute, which easily transmuted into a desperate outcast, a fallen woman in the nineteenth century.I have also finished a paper on the care of a dying husband in the health resort, Bath and a paper on the care network of a literary poor woman in Bath.

这项研究的目的是根据对奥尔索普手稿材料和出版文献的阅读，考察十八世纪英国女性的活动和自我分析。我的重点是照顾者和被照顾者方面的护理。在“感性”时代，人们特别注重对弱者和不幸者的同情反应，并认为这是日常生活和文学的趋势。2003年夏天我在伦敦的逗留是富有成效的，使阅读大英图书馆手稿收藏中的奥尔索普论文和已出版的莫德林书籍中的两篇论文（以及即将提交的另一篇论文）是这次阅读的直接产物，其中一篇研究了个人网站中的捐助者和贫困者之间的关系。它考察了生活与文学之间以及一位富有的妇女与一位请愿者之间的有趣关系，这是由两位妇女的阅读和写作习惯所建立和支持的。第二篇论文是关于“不幸”的看法。妇女在有组织的它分析了人们对妓女态度的变化以及慈善组织的作用，该慈善组织试图说服人们将妓女视为受害者，将其视为不幸的女性，这有助于引起人们的同情，特别是来自女性的同情。然而，它也有助于从一个由扒手、妓女、流浪汉和夜行者组成的无定形群体中定义出一个无助的妓女，很容易转变为一个绝望的被遗弃者，一个十九世纪堕落的女人。我还完成了一篇关于巴斯疗养胜地垂死丈夫的护理的论文和一篇关于巴斯一位文学贫困妇女的护理网络的论文。