A Reconsideration of the Complicit Relationship Between Nineteenth-Century British Imperialism and Fiction

维多利亚时代的小说被认为是维护19世纪英国帝国主义的工具。然而，在这项研究中，通过分析Sarah Grand和Wilkie Collins的文本，我发现他们实际上表现出对国家未来的焦虑。具体来说，通过比较格兰德的《尤金妮亚》和托马斯·哈代的《无名的裘德》，我展示了哈代对帝国主义关于女性角色的话语的挑战。此外，通过对柯林斯的《冰封的深渊》的关注，我表明了英国绅士的理性是建立在英国人身体内部的他者性之上的。

Victorian fiction has been regarded as an instrument to maintain nineteenth-century British imperialism. However, in this study, by analyzing texts by Sarah Grand and Wilkie Collins, I have found out that they actually show an anxiety about the future of the nation. Specifically, by comparing Grand's "Eugenia" with Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, I have demonstrated Hardy's challenge to imperialistic discourses concerning women's roles. Moreover, by focusing on Collins's The Frozen Deep, I have shown that the rationality of the English gentleman is founded on the Otherness inside the English body.