Reassessing Historicism in Romantic Studies

我的研究分析了历史主义批评歪曲浪漫主义理想主义的方式，首先是彼得·奥托对华兹华斯想象力的解释，他认为思想是一台“机器”，具有改变社会的潜力——这种观点将浪漫主义的想象力与“虚拟现实”的概念结合起来，其次，尼古拉斯·罗认为华兹华斯对丁德寺效果的描述与济慈对子弹穿过他治疗的病人身体的路径的描述相呼应，第三，安德里亚·亨德森对后结构主义反本质主义的解释暗示意识是一个人的环境的影响这种观点没有认识到浪漫主义和后结构主义之间的联系。

My research has analyzed the ways in which historicist criticism misrepresents Romantic idealism, firstly in Peter Otto’s interpretation of Wordsworth’s idea of imagination as implying that the mind is a ‘machine’ with the potential to transform society - a view which aligns Romantic ideas of imagination with concepts of ‘virtual reality’, secondly in Nicholas Roe’s argument that Wordsworth’s description of the effects of Tintern Abbey is echoed in Keats’s description of the path taken by a bullet through the body of a patient he was treating, and thirdly, in Andrea Henderson’s interpretation of poststructuralist anti-essentialism as implying that consciousness is an effect of one’s environment - a view which fails to recognize the affinities between Romanticism and poststructuralism.