Anti-Slavery Movement and Literature of Concord in Antebellum America

本研究旨在考察19世纪中叶美国的反奴隶制运动及其对马萨诸塞州康科德文学活动的影响。通过再次将拉尔夫·W·爱默生和亨利·D·梭罗的文学文本放在战前美国的政治语境中，我试图说明他们的作品与解放话语之间的密切联系。2003年，我主要考察了19世纪康科德的反奴隶制活动。我去了宾夕法尼亚州立大学进行了一次研究旅行，在那里呆了三个星期，专注于研究废奴主义运动和其他反奴隶制活动，包括地下铁路。这项研究的结果形成了一篇名为《反奴隶制运动与瓦尔登--高等法律研究》(《英语语言文学研究》，2005年第55期)的文章。2004年，我试图了解解放话语与包括先验主义者作品在内的美国浪漫主义文学的兴起是如何历史联系在一起的。我在这方面的出版物包括《梭罗的身体诗学》(《我的黎明：瓦尔登湖150周年散文》，2004年)，《自然与文学的对话：都市、田园与荒野》(联合编辑，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).