The 'Energy Unconscious': Natural Resources and the American Novel, 1846-1979

我的论文探讨了1846年至1979年间美国小说中的能量表征。我将通过分析鲸油、煤、石油和核能占主导地位的时期的关键文本，来研究美国小说中的“能量无意识”（渗透在社会文化实践中的物质能源的基本上未被注意到的情感力量）是如何存在的。我的论文将部署这一概念框架，使美国文学文本，阐明国家的能源，环境恶化，社会文化习俗和地缘政治权力之间的关系的新的阅读。美国在这样的分析中尤其重要，因为美国的文化习俗对人为气候变化的贡献不成比例。我建议，文学叙事的分析，在他们同时揭示和扭曲的情感力量的能源，可以照亮一个国家的能源无意识，从而提出必要的能源转型的潜在途径。

My thesis explores representations of energy in the American novel between the years 1846 and 1979. I will examine how an 'energy unconscious' (the largely unremarked, affectual force of material energy sources which permeates sociocultural practices) exists in American fiction through analyses of key texts written in the periods when whale oil, coal, oil, and nuclear power were predominant. My thesis will deploy this conceptual framework to give new readings of American literary texts that articulate the relationship between the nation's energy sources, environmental degradation, sociocultural practices and geopolitical power. America is particularly important to such an analysis, for the nation's cultural practices have disproportionately contributed to anthropogenic climate change. I propose that analyses of literary narratives, in the way they simultaneously reveal and distort the affectual force of energy, can illuminate a nation's energy unconscious, thereby suggesting potential avenues for necessary energy transitions.