Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears
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哭泣的不列颠尼亚：一个泪流满面的国家的肖像
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2015
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Thomas Dixon
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托马斯狄克逊的《哭泣的不列颠》是一次穿越六个世纪的英国眼泪之旅，从“极端的哭泣者”玛格丽·肯普到英国达人和X因素的电视“哭泣节”，通过泪渍斑斑的评委，情感丰富的感性小说，据说是僵硬的上唇政治家，以及眼睛干涩的记者观察公众对戴安娜王妃去世的悲痛的困惑蔑视。狄克逊试图消除英国作为一个情绪压抑的斯多葛主义国家的“持续神话”，他写道，坚强的上唇远非民族性格中的一个恒定元素，只是在帝国时代的军国主义中出现的世纪后期。
Thomas Dixon’s Weeping Britannia is a tour through six centuries of British tears, from ‘extreme weeper’ Margery Kempe to the televised ‘sob-fests’ of Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, via tear-stained judges, the emotionally extravagant novel of sensibility, supposedly stiff-upper-lipped politicians, and the bemused disdain of dry-eyed journalists observing the public outpourings of grief at the death of Princess Diana. Dixon sets out to dispel the ‘persistent myth’ of Britain as a nation of emotionally repressed stoics, writing that the stiff upper lip, far from being a constant element in the national character, emerged only in the late 19th century amid the militarism of the age of empire.