Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940
Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940
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英国小说的国家、种族和地理，1880-1940 年
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2018
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M. Wilkins
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Elizabeth F. Evans;M. Wilkins
现代主义文学研究中最紧迫的问题之一是那些与英国在帝国统治下与更广阔世界的接触有关的问题，以及与二战前英国自身快速发展的城市空间有关的问题。在这两种情况下，1880年至1940年间的文学地理想象（或无意识）可以帮助我们了解那个时代的英国和与英国结盟的作家的文本是如何理解这些问题的，以及它们是如何随着时间的推移而演变的。在最高层次上，我们如何描述英国写作的国际和国内地理？文化认同在当代作家的空间想象中扮演了什么角色，如果有的话？在他们的作品中，哪些地方的代表性过高或过低？如果有的话，当我们按国籍或种族划分作家时，答案会发生怎样的变化？从维多利亚时代晚期到两次世界大战之间的高度现代主义时代，地理上的什么变化标志着这种转变？这些问题，以及其他类似的问题，最近受到了大众和学术界的广泛关注。在这篇文章中，我们探索了当我们在计算辅助下大规模询问他们时我们学到的东西。
Among the most pressing problems in modernist literary studies are those related to Britain's engagement with the wider world under empire and to its own rapidly evolving urban spaces in the years before the Second World War. In both cases, the literary-geographic imagination—or unconscious—of the period between 1880 and 1940 can help to shed light on how texts by British and British-aligned writers of the era understood these issues and how they evolved over time. At the highest level, how can we characterize the international and domestic geographies of British writing? What roles, if any, did cultural identity play in contemporary writers' spatial imagination? What locations were over- or under-represented in their work and how, if at all, does the answer change when we group writers by national origin or by perceived ethnicity? What shifts in geographic attention marked the transition from the late Victorian period to the interwar era of high modernism? These questions, and others like them, have received much recent attention, both popular and academic. In this essay, we explore what we learn when we ask them at scale with computational assistance.