Loss and Insurance in American Literature

这个为期三年的“美国文学中的损失与保险”研究项目的成果非常成功，并在学术上有所裨益。在第一次赴美考察期间，我发现并购买了几份关于美国自殖民时期以来保险业历史的珍贵历史文献。我对这些文件的分析和对大发现时代以来保险业的圣地--如费城、伦敦和佛罗伦萨--的实地研究加强了我的论点，即美国保险业中的美国情感已经获得了跨洋的方面，它们在许多美国文学的不朽作品中得到了普遍的说明，这些作品描述了许多层次的损失和失误。我的进一步研究也清楚地表明，这些跨洋方面不仅被描述为“跨大西洋“，即欧洲和美洲之间，而且还被描述为“跨太平洋”的扩张--在十六世纪，欧洲人发生了 ...更多信息 to reach到达the Americas美洲completely完全by chance机会while they werewouseouldn 't应该be heading头for Asia亚洲.大发现时代“亚洲/乌托邦”的后续话语在美国研究中尚未得到充分讨论，但在美国文学中却充分存在。我的研究成果在我的博士论文（2011年），两篇评论文章（2011年，2012年）和三次文学会议上的口头报告（2010年，2011年，2012年）的某些部分中取得了成果。此外，我还邀请了著名的文学教授参加了两次公开讲座，我主持了这两次讲座，以一种开放和对话的方式介绍了我目前的研究课题，超越了学术界的局限（2010年，2011年）。此外，这三年的研究也让我提出了一个新的研究假设，即美国文学中对商业合同的描述之所以常常带有神学色彩，可能是因为这种合同的概念已经与其他社会和宗教合同如《五月花公约》和《盟约》中的《恩典契约》混合在一起，into the very core核心of founding创建ideas理念of the United States美国.少

The outcome of this three-year research project on “Loss and Insurance inAmerican Literature” has been very successful and academically beneficial. During the first research tripto the United States, I found and purchased several rare historical documents of the history of theinsurance industry in America since the Colonial period. My analysis of those documents and the fieldresearch in the meccas of the insurance business since the Age of Great Discovery-such asPhiladelphia, London, and Florence-reinforced my thesis that the American sensibility in Americaninsurance business has acquired transoceanic aspects and they are pervasively illustrated in manymonumental works of American literature, which describe many layers of loss and lapse. My furtherstudy also made clear that these transoceanic aspects have been described not only as “transatlantic,”that is between Europe and the Americas, but also as resulting from “transpacific” imaginations-in thesixteenth century , Europeans happened … More to reach the Americas entirely by chance while they weresupposed to be heading for Asia. The subsequent discourses of “Asia/Utopia” in the Age of GreatDiscovery have not been fully discussed in American studies, but they are fully present in Americanliterature. My research findings came to fruition in some parts of my PhD dissertation (2011), twopeer-reviewed articles (2011, 2012), and three oral presentations at literary conferences (2010, 2011,2012). In addition, I invited renowned literature professors to two public lectures, which I hosted tointroduce the topic of my current research in an open and dialogical way beyond the confines ofacademia (2010, 2011). Furthermore, this three-year-long research also allowed me to come up with a new research hypothesis,that the reason descriptions of business contracts often carry a theological air in American literaturemight be that the idea of such contracts has been blended, together with other social and religious contracts such as the “Mayflower Pact” and the “Contract of Grace” of the Covenant, into the very coreof founding ideas of the United States. Less