Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe
Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe
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柯勒律治的水下政治：《古代水手》和《鲁宾逊漂流记》
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10.2307/3509167
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1994
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P. Keane
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本研究探讨了柯勒律治对革命和后革命时代几个关键问题的回应：法国大革命十年期间英国激进主义的兴起和镇压，以及奴隶制和奴隶贸易的悲惨问题。它由两个不同但密切相关的部分组成。根据柯勒律治对《罗宾逊漂流记》的注释，第一部分试图将笛福的小说及其主人公的奴隶贸易与《古水手》中的幽灵咆哮联系起来，早期的评论家认为这是废奴主义者对奴隶船恐怖的暗示。基恩讨论了这两个文本之间的许多相似之处：它们交织在一起的海洋，罪恶和存在的孤独，犯罪，惩罚和至少部分救赎的主题。然而，更重要的是，基恩对柯勒律治诗歌文本中和文本之下的可识别的政治所变形的处理。第二部分认为，意象和情节的发展，“古水手”反映了1797年11月和1798年3月之间的政治事件，柯勒律治是写作和修改他的诗，并提供反皮特的诗句和散文，广泛阅读的反对派报纸，“晨星星星”。基恩引导一个平衡的过程，坚持这首诗的社会政治背景的意义，而不是减少它的起源的象征。这本书是日益广泛的恢复历史背景作为文学解释基础的运动的一部分。基恩并没有声称《古水手》说的是一回事，意思是另一回事--或者说它真的是关于西方对奴隶贸易的罪恶感。通过将《古舟子》视为既不是政治寓言也不是对政治的逃避，作者让读者用既不是反历史的审美也不一定是意识形态的眼光来看待这首诗。
This study explores Coleridge's response to several crucial issues of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary age: the rise and suppression of English radicalism during the decade of the French Revolution and the tragic questions of slavery and the slave trade. It consists of two distinct, but intimately related parts. Based on Coleridge's annotations to "Robinson Crusoe", Part I attempts to link Defoe's novel and the slave-trading of its hero, with the spectre-bark of "The Ancient Mariner", which earlier critics had considered an abolitionist's allusion to the horrors of a slave ship. Keane discusses the numerous similarities between these two texts: their intertwined motifs of sea, sin, and existential solitude, of transgressions, punishment, and at least partial redemption. More important, however, is Keane's treatment of the transfigured by recognisable politics in and beneath the text of Coleridge's poem. Part II argues that imagery and plot developments in "The Ancient Mariner" reflect political events between November 1797 and March 1798, the months when Coleridge was writing and revising his poem and contributing anti-Pittite verses and essays to the widely read opposition newspaper, the "Morning Star". Keane steers a balanced course, insisting on the significance of the poem's sociopolitical context without reducing it to a token of its genesis. The book is part of the increasingly widespread movement to reinstate historical context as a ground of literary interpretation. Keane does not claim that "The Ancient Mariner" says one thing and means another - or is really about Western guilt regarding the slave trade. By treating "The Ancient Mariner" as neither political allegory nor an evasion of politics, the author allows readers to see the poem with an eye that is neither antihistorically aesthetic nor necessarily ideological.