Provincialism at Large: Reading Locality, Scale, and Circulation in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Provincialism at Large: Reading Locality, Scale, and Circulation in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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普遍的地方主义：十九世纪英国的阅读地点、规模和流通
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10.1093/jvcult/vcad031
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2023
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0.3
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Livesey R
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Livesey R
自英国脱欧辩论和2016年英国欧盟成员国公投以来，“省级”和“地方主义”一词在英国明显复苏，本引言将对《新议程》的贡献置于这一背景下。本文以地方思想的复兴为契机，探讨了维多利亚时代英国地方主义的文化史及其在帝国形成过程中所起的意想不到的作用。通过这一历史视角重新评估地方主义的文化形成，《新议程》中的文章帮助我们看到其权力的根源，以及潜藏在其中的其他可能性。尽管在19世纪，地方主义成为一个令人担忧且充满政治色彩的术语，但它也是一种手段，让那些以前被排斥在外的人能够接触到印刷和物质文化。与此同时，地方主义在马修·阿诺德（Matthew Arnold）等自由主义评论家手中变成了一个贬义词，而19世纪的英国则是由工业、知识探索和来自非大都市城镇的报纸推动的。省级报刊和省级小说是维多利亚时代的英国将自己表现为一个由不同的组成地区组成的实体，并将自己想象成一个帝国力量的重要方式。
This introduction situates the contributions to the New Agenda in the context of an apparent resurgence of the term ‘provincial’ and ‘provincialism’ in Britain since the Brexit debates and the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. It takes the resurgence of provincial thinking as an invitation to explore the cultural history of provincialism in Victorian Britain and the unexpected part it played in the formation of Empire. By revaluing the cultural formation of provincialism through this historical lens the articles in this New Agenda help us see the roots of its power now and the alternative possibilities latent within it. Although provincialism emerged as a fraught and politically charged term during the nineteenth century it was also a means to expand access to print and material cultures to those previously excluded. At the same time as provincialism became a pejorative term in the hands of liberal critics such as Matthew Arnold, nineteenth-century Britain was powered by industry, intellectual enquiry, and newspapers emanating from non-metropolitan towns and cities. The provincial press and provincial fiction are crucial ways in which Victorian Britain represented itself as an entity composed of distinctive constituent regions and imagined itself as an imperial power.