Literature as Equity in British Literary History: Modernism (C02)

该项目的重点是大法官法院的解散和随之而来的文学中对其自身在社会批评和系统变革方面的权力的幻灭。看来，作为观念和制度的公平不仅深深地植根于法律体系之中，而且在当时的文学小说中也不再发挥重要作用。现代文学开始在对自身形式的反思中转向内省，尤其是现代小说似乎在质疑自己在社会中的作用。该项目追踪了股权在英国文化史上这一关键时刻的残留，特别关注帝国灭亡的后果。

The project focuses on the dissolution of the Court of Chancery and the concomitant disillusionment in literature regarding its own power for social criticism and systemic change at the fin de siècle. It seems that equity as both idea and institution is not only buried deep in the legal system, but also ceases to play a major role in literary fiction at the time. Modern literature begins to turn inward in self-reflection on its very own form and the modern novel especially seems to question its own function in society. The project traces equity’s residues at this crucial moment in British cultural history with a special focus on the consequences of the end of Empire.