Loss and Insurance in American Literature

这项为期三年的《美国文学中的损失与保险》研究项目取得了非常成功的成果，在学术上也是有益的。在第一次赴美调研期间，我发现并购买了几份有关殖民地以来美国保险业历史的罕见历史文献。我对这些文件的分析，以及对大发现时代以来保险业圣地--如费城、伦敦和佛罗伦萨--的实地研究，强化了我的观点，即美国人对保险业的敏感性已经获得了跨越大洋的方面，它们在许多不朽的美国文学作品中得到了无处不在的阐释，这些作品描述了许多层面的损失和失落。我的进一步研究还表明，这些跨洋现象不仅被描述为“跨大西洋”，也就是在欧洲和美洲之间，而且还被描述为“跨太平洋”想象的结果--在16世纪，欧洲人发生了…。更多的人完全是在偶然的情况下到达美洲的，而他们被认为是前往亚洲的。随后关于大发现时代的“亚洲/乌托邦”的论述在美国研究中没有得到充分的讨论，但在美国文学中却得到了充分的体现。我的研究成果在我的博士学位论文(2011年)的某些部分、两篇经专家评审的文章(2011年、2012年)和三次文学会议上的口头陈述(2010年、2011年、2012年)中取得了成果。此外，我邀请了著名的文学教授参加了两次公开讲座，以一种开放和对话的方式介绍了我目前研究的主题，超越了痴呆症的局限(2010年和2011年)。此外，这项长达三年的研究还使我提出了一个新的研究假设，即对商业合同的描述在美国文学中往往带有神学色彩，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《公约》的《恩典契约》，融入了美国建国思想的核心。较少

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 During the first research tripto the United States, I found and purchased several rare historical documents of the history of theinsurance industry in America since the Colonial period.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