Political and Sexual Deviance and Images of Martyrdom in Modern Britain

现代英国的政治和性偏差以及殉难形象

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I001433/1
负责人：
Dominic Janes
金额：
$ 4.24万
依托单位：
Birkbeck, University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2011 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI001433%2F1
关键词：
Political Sexual Deviance Images Martyrdom

项目摘要

The subject of this research is the way in which images of martyrdom became highly controversial in modern Britain through the process of their becoming enmeshed in political, religious and cultural disputes. Those who deliberately embraced suffering could be understood as heroes, as mentally unstable, or as perverts. This project focuses on two areas of such controversies. The first is the connections between martyrdom and political subversion through an examination of the interrelations between visual imagery and textual discourses of martyrdom and terrorism. The second is the way in which images of martyrdom, notably those derived from Roman Catholicism, helped to shape aspects of sexual dissidence such as the cultural formation of same-sex desire at the end of the nineteenth century. The key aims of this research are to connect together areas of scholarship carried out by those in history, art history and religious studies and to produce an interdisciplinary study of cultural formations which focus on the nineteenth century, but which pay heed to long-term historical trends and developments through to the present day.This research is the culmination of a project carried out by myself as sole researcher which was begun at Birkbeck, University of London in 2008. It is a development from my previous research project into the controversial reception of Anglo-Catholic material culture as morally subversive idolatry during the mid-nineteenth century, a reception which showed strong Protestant fears of links between political treachery and sexual subversion. This project builds on such understandings and, by so doing, argues that academics in a range of disciplines from political to cultural history, art history and religious studies can benefit from the development of work which highlights the interactions between political, religious and cultural formations. This research project aims to highlight key opportunities provided by thinking beyond conventional classifications of types of subversion such as heresy, treachery, terrorism and perversion by examining them in juxtaposition.

这项研究的主题是，通过在政治，宗教和文化纠纷中陷入困境的过程中，在英国，难以争议的方式在现代英国引起了极大的争议。那些故意拥抱苦难的人可以被理解为英雄，在精神上不稳定或变态。该项目着重于此类争议的两个领域。首先是通过考察视觉图像与the虫和恐怖主义的文字话语之间的相互关系，the难与政治颠覆之间的联系。第二个是mart难的形象，尤其是从罗马天主教衍生的图像，有助于塑造性异议的各个方面，例如19世纪末的文化形成同性欲望的文化形成。这项研究的关键目的是将历史，艺术历史和宗教研究人员进行的奖学金领域联系在一起，并进行对文化形式的跨学科研究，这些研究的重点是十九世纪，但这却谨此对长期的历史趋势和发展延续到今天。先前的研究项目是在十九世纪中叶在道德上颠覆性偶像崇拜的有争议接受，这一招待会表现出强烈的新教徒担心政治背叛与性颠覆之间的联系。该项目以这种理解为基础，并且通过这样做，认为从政治历史到文化历史，艺术历史和宗教研究的一系列学科中的学者可以从工作的发展中受益，从而突出了政治，宗教和文化形态之间的相互作用。该研究项目的目的是通过思考异端，背叛，恐怖主义和变态等传统类型的颠覆类型的常规分类来强调关键机会。