Historicising Heritage and Emotions: The Affective Histories of Blood, Stone and Land from Medieval Britain to Colonial Australia

283 Pages·2017·35.494 MB·English

by  Alicia Marchant

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Historicising Heritage and Emotions

Historicising Heritage and Emotions examines how heritage is connected
to and between people and places through emotion, both in the past and
today. Discussion is focused on the overlapping categories of blood (families
and bloodlines), stone (monuments and memorials) and land (landscape
and places imbued with memories), with the contributing authors exploring
the ways in which emotions invest heritage with affective power, and the
transformative effects of this power in individual, community and cultural
contexts.
The 13 chapters that make up the volume take examples from the
premodern and modern eras, and from two connected geographical regions:
the United Kingdom, and Australia and the Pacific. Each chapter seeks to
identify, historicise and contextualise the processes of heritage and the emo-
tional regimes at play, locating the processes within longer historical and
transnational genealogies and critically appraising them as part of broader
cultural currents. Theoretically grounded in new approaches to the history
of emotions and critical heritage studies, the analysis challenges the trad-
itional scholarly focus on heritage in its modern forms, offering multifaceted
premodern and modern case studies that demonstrate heritage and emotion
to have complex and vibrant histories.
Offering transhistorical and multidisciplinary discussion around the
ways in which we can talk about, discuss, categorise and theorise heritage
and emotion in different historical contexts, Historicising Heritage and
Emotions is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in heri-
tage, emotions and history.
Alicia Marchant is a historian of emotions and heritage based at the
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of
Emotions, Europe 1100–1800 at the University of Western Australia. Her
previous publications have included work on river histories, the Stone of
Scone, cartography, dark tourism and Shakespeare.
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Historicising Heritage

and Emotions
The Affective Histories of Blood,
Stone and Land
Edited by Alicia Marchant
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Names: Marchant, Alicia, editor.
Title: Historicising heritage and emotions : the affective histories of
blood, stone and land / edited by Alicia Marchant.
Description: First edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019] |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045786 (print) | LCCN 2018045996 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781315472898 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781138202825 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Cultural property–Psychological aspects. |
Historic preservation–Psychological aspects. | Emotions–History. |
Historic sites–Great Britain–Social aspects. |
Historic sites–Great Britain–Colonies–Social aspects.
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For

Susan Broomhall
(multitudo docta sub alis tuis floret)
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Contents

List of figures ix

List of contributors xi

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction: historicising heritage and emotions 1

ALICIA MARCHANT
PART I
Affective histories of blood, stone
and land in Medieval and Early Modern Britain 17

1 Carved in stone: engaging with the past in Medieval
Orkney 19

SARAH RANDLES
2 Wulfstan of Worcester’s weeping: the architecture of the
Norman Conquest as a site of cross- cultural emotion 34

JANE- HÉLOÏSE NANCARROW
3 John Hardyng’s Scotland: emotional geographies and
forged heritage in the fifteenth century 51

ALICIA MARCHANT
4 Sacred memory: the Elizabethan monuments of
Westminster Abbey 67

PETER SHERLOCK
5 Emotional lineages: blood, property, family and affection
in Early Modern Scotland 84

KATIE BARCLAY
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6 ‘Let me weep for such a feeling loss’: the emotional
significance of Shakespeare’s heritage 99

SUSAN BROOMHALL
PART II
Affective histories of blood, stone
and land in Australia and the Pacific 115

7 My heritage – it is not just about sticks and stones –
it is timeless, precious and irreplaceable 117

PATSY CAMERON
8 The crimson thread of medievalism: haematic heritage
and transhistorical mood in colonial Australia 134

LOUISE D’ARCENS
9 John Watt Beattie and the presentation of convict history 148

JON ADDISON
10 ‘The general softening of manners among us’: music and
the moral power of nostalgia in a colonial penal colony 168

ALAN MADDOX
11 Murdering Snow and ruling the north: the rise and
fall of affective colonialism and the advent of heritage
tourism in New Zealand 183

KRISTYN HARMAN
12 Convict bloodlines: crime, intergenerational legacies
and convict heritage 198

HAMISH MAXWELL- STEWART
13 The Esplanade and the City Gatekeepers: contesting
the limits of urban heritage protection 214

JENNY GREGORY
Bibliography 234

Index 256
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Figures

0.1 The Shot Tower, Taroona, Tasmania 9
1.1 The Maeshowe ‘dragon,’ Orkney 28
3.1 John Hardyng’s map of Scotland (1457) 52
3.2 John Hardyng’s map of Scotland from the second version of
the chronicle; first of three pages mapping Carlisle to the Tay 60
4.1 View of monuments, St Nicholas Chapel, Westminster Abbey 70
4.2 Monument of John, Lord Russell (d.1584), Westminster Abbey 78
7.1 Mother Mountain (Mt Pearse) 123
7.2 Daughter Mountain (Mt Bischoff) 124
7.3 Granite monolith in the Blue Tiers, Turtle Rock 126
7.4 Ochred hand stencils, Wargata Mina cave 128
7.5 Mannalargenna 130
7.6 Cousins Nannette Shaw and Mandy Quadrio gathering
ochre on a roadside cutting 131
8.1 Tom Durkin, cartoon of Edmund Gerald Fitzgibbon 137
8.2 Albert Charles Cooke, engraving, ‘The Mediaeval Court,
Intercolonial exhibition’, The Australian News for Home
Readers, 20 December 1866 144
9.1 View of the penitentiary and hospital, Port Arthur,
Tasmania, c.1880. Postcard print 150
9.2 Studio portrait of John Watt Beattie and family, probably
in Hobart, Tasmania, possibly in the 1910s or 1920s. From
left: Muriel, Emily (wife), Jean, John 151
9.3 Convict relics from Port Arthur, Tasmania, on display in
the Port Arthur Museum. Items include leg irons, ball and
chain, whip, handcuffs, guns and a sword 153
9.4 View of J.W. Beattie’s campsite on his first trip to Lake
St Clair, Tasmania, 1879 160
11.1 ‘Auckland, New Zealand’ (1853) by Walter Scarlett Hatton
(1873–1938) 189
13.1 This image shows a cricket match on the Esplanade, but
note that a section is still under water. ‘The Esplanade’
(late 1870s), embroidery by Henry Passmore 217