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Character Matters: Individual Character, Moral and Political Education in Victorian Britain

Descrizione del progetto

Il personaggio come politica nella Gran Bretagna vittoriana

Nell’Inghilterra vittoriana, il carattere personale era ben più di una virtù privata, ma veniva considerato il fondamento di una società pacifica. In che modo questa idea plasmò le politiche e le riforme reali? Il progetto CHARMA, sostenuto dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, indaga questo interrogativo nell’arco di 24 mesi. Analizzando i testi politici e i lavori di riforma della comunità unitariana nella Manchester vittoriana, il progetto scopre come gli ideali legati al carattere abbiano influenzato l’istruzione e il cambiamento sociale. Attraverso la ricerca d’archivio e l’analisi delle reti sociali, CHARMA mette in connessione la storia intellettuale e la filosofia politica con metodi innovativi. Il progetto chiarisce come la costruzione del carattere non fosse solo un elemento morale, ma una strategia politica in tempi di sconvolgimenti.

Obiettivo

This project (CHARMA) is a study of the political importance of the concept of personal character in Victorian England. CHARMA will be developed through a 24-month European Fellowship with the University of Manchester. The overarching goal of this project is understanding the relationship between the cultivation of individual character and the plans for building a peaceful society, at a time when Britain was experiencing rapid socio-economic and political change. To achieve this overarching goal, I divided my project into two sub-goals. My first sub-goal is understanding the Victorian discourse of character and its political importance through texts of early and mid-Victorian political thought. This study will be pursued by textual analysis. My second sub-goal is demonstrating that this concept influenced actual plans for educational and social reform. To do so, I will focus on a case-study: I will analyse the reform practices and institutions of a highly influential group of Dissenters, the Unitarians, in Victorian Manchester. This study will be pursued through archival research, using the vast collections in the University of Manchester Archive. I will also used social network analysis to trace the connections of Unitarians with different social groups and represent them graphically. This project will contribute to the fields of intellectual history, history of political thought and political philosophy. CHARMA's methodology is interdisciplinary, as it combines different fields, different kind of sources and a practice-based, bottom-up approach with a contextualist study of published texts. CHARMA also uses a mixed-methods approach and provides methodological innovation by introducing a new method, social network analysis, into the field of intellectual history.

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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Coordinatore

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 260 347,92
Indirizzo
OXFORD ROAD
M13 9PL Manchester
Regno Unito
Regione
North West (England) Greater Manchester Manchester
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Costo totale
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