Anti-Slavery Movement and Literature of Concord in Antebellum America

这个项目的目的是调查19世纪中期美国的反奴隶制运动，并看看它对马萨诸塞州康科德的文学活动的影响。通过再次将拉尔夫·w·爱默生和亨利·d·梭罗的文学作品置于战前美国的政治背景中，我试图说明他们的作品与解放话语之间的密切联系。2003年，我主要调查了19世纪的反奴隶制活动。我去宾夕法尼亚州立大学做了一次研究旅行，在那里我呆了三个星期，集中精力研究废奴运动和其他反奴隶制活动，包括地下铁路。这一研究成果形成了《反奴隶制运动与瓦尔登——对“高等法律”的研究》一文（《英国语言文学研究》2005年第55期）。2004年，我试图了解解放话语在历史上是如何与美国浪漫主义文学的兴起联系在一起的，包括先验主义者的作品。我在这一领域的出版物包括《梭罗的身体诗学》（《我的黎明：瓦尔登湖150周年纪念随笔》，2004年），《自然与文学的对话：城市、田园和荒野》（合著，2004年），《边缘文学：瓦尔登湖研究》（即将出版）。

The purpose of this project was to investigate the anti-slavery movement in mid-19^<th> century America and to see its influence upon the literary activities in Concord, Massachusetts. By placing once again the literary texts of Ralph W.Emerson and Henry D.Thoreau in the political context of antebellum America, I attempted to illustrate the close linkage between their works and the discourse of emancipation.In 2003,I mainly investigated the anti-slavery activities in 19^<th> century Concord. I made a research trip to Pennsylvania State University where I stayed for three weeks and concentrated myself on studying the abolitionist movement and other anti-slavery activities, including the Underground Railroad. The outcome of the research was shaped into the article "Anti-Slavery Movement and Walden-A Study of ‘Higher Laws" (Studies in English Language and Literature, No.55,2005).In 2004,I attempted to see how the discourse of emancipation was historically related to the rise of romantic literature in America, including transcendentalists' writings. My publications in this area includes "Thoreau's Poetics of Body" (Dawn in Me : Essays on the 150^<th> Anniversary of Walden, 2004), Dialogue between Nature and Literature : Urban, Pastoral, and Wild(Co-editor, 2004), "Literature on the Edge : A Study of Walden"(forthcoming).