The Transformation of"Affect"and Publicness in British Literary Modernism

本课题考察了英国文学现代主义如何在“情感”问题上积极参与“公共性”的转型。最近对这一特定问题的兴趣上升提供了一个新的理论视角。通过把“情感”视为扰乱个人作品的内在和自主性的因素，本项目揭示了辛克莱、王尔德和伍尔夫等不同作家的作品是如何批判地与他们的当代社会接触的，以及他们的各种尝试是如何被旨在社区重构的乌托邦冲动所驱动的。

This project investigated how British Literary Modernism was actively engaged in the transformation of"publicness"on the question of"affect". a new theoretical perspective provided by the recent rise of interest in this particular issue. By regarding"affect"as an element which disturbs the inwardness and autonomy of individual works, this project revealed how the works of diverse writers such as Sinclair, Wilde, and Woolf critically engaged with their contemporary society and how their various attempts were driven by the Utopian impulse which aimed at the reconfiguration of community.