Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle - Citizens of Nowhere
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle - Citizens of Nowhere
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英国世纪末的文学世界主义 - 无名公民
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10.1093/oso/9780198864240.001.0001
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2021
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Evangelista S
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Evangelista S
世纪末，世界主义的论争如火如荼，它改变了读者对民族身份、外国文学、翻译以及世界文学观念的态度。《英语世纪末》中的世界主义文学以英语文学为研究对象，对世界主义作为这一重要转型时期文学现代性的一个显著特征进行了批判性审视。世界主义-或世界公民身份-不再纯粹被视为一种抽象的哲学理想，而是为作者和读者的实际生活实践提供了信息，他们在日益相互关联的世界中寻求将地方和全球身份联系起来的新方法。这本书提出文学世界主义作为一个辩论和争议的领域。虽然一些作家和读者接受了世界公民的创造性，想象力，情感和政治潜力，但敌对的批评家谴责它是一种政治和道德上可疑的理想，并强调文学对国家的责任。在这个帝国和民族主义兴起的时代，世界公民身份开始体现一个悖论：它同时意味着特权和边缘地位，联系和不属于。关于奥斯卡·王尔德、拉夫卡迪奥·赫恩、乔治·埃杰顿、期刊出版社和人工语言的章节揭示了文学界对二十世纪之交激增的世界公民意识的各种反应。这本书质疑世界主义作为一种自由的意识形态，庆祝人类的多样性和作为一个社会身份与世俗联系在一起;它调查了它对性别，道德和情感的影响。它将世纪末的文学呈现为一个交流和调解的动态空间，并认为我们自己的文学研究方法应该变得不那么关注国家。
The fin de siècle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle offers a critical examination of cosmopolitanism as a distinctive feature of the literary modernity of this important period of transition. No longer conceived purely as an abstract philosophical ideal, cosmopolitanism--or world citizenship--informed the actual, living practices of authors and readers who sought new ways of relating local and global identities in an increasingly interconnected world. The book presents literary cosmopolitanism as a field of debate and controversy. While some writers and readers embraced the creative, imaginative, emotional, and political potentials of world citizenship, hostile critics denounced it as a politically and morally suspect ideal, and stressed instead the responsibilities of literature towards the nation. In this age of empire and rising nationalism, world citizenship came to enshrine a paradox: it simultaneously connoted positions of privilege and marginality, connectivity and non-belonging. Chapters on Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio Hearn, George Egerton, the periodical press, and artificial languages bring to light the variety of literary responses to the idea of world citizenship that proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century. The book interrogates cosmopolitanism as a liberal ideology that celebrates human diversity and as a social identity linked to worldliness; it investigates its effect on gender, ethics, and the emotions. It presents the literature of the fin de siècle as a dynamic space of exchange and mediation, and argues that our own approach to literary studies should become less national in focus.