Dreaming of Islam Among the Modernists of Sussex

我的研究将在凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德、詹姆斯·乔伊斯和弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的精选作品中探索伊斯兰教的位置和存在，每个案例都集中在他们在苏塞克斯县的时间。我研究的时间中心是两个非常特殊的事件--即1923年奥斯曼帝国的解体和1932年沙特阿拉伯的成立。我认为，这些事件以及随之而来的西方对伊斯兰教认识的巨大发展(梅尔曼1992和赛义德1993)对讲英语的现代主义产生了影响，尽管这种影响往往是秘密的或被埋葬的，但却具有重大意义。这一意义还没有得到充分的调查，而现在，距离1922年这一现代主义伟大的年份已经过去了一百年，是时候这样做了。我选择把苏塞克斯郡作为我的地形焦点，因为它不仅是我的每个作家都去过或居住过的地方，而且它过去是，现在也是，象征着英格兰(Featherstone2008)的愿景，甚至是英国的现代主义，通常与伊斯兰教没有联系。我的工作将挑战这些愿景。

My research will explore the place and presence of Islam within selected works by Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, focusing in each case on their time in the County of Sussex. At the chronological centre of my research are two very particular events -namely the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and the founding of Saudi Arabia in 1932. These events and the huge attendant development in Western awareness of Islam at this time(Melman1992and Said 1993)had, I contend, an influence on Anglophone modernism that, though often secret or buried, is of great significance. This significance has not yet been fully investigated, and now, a hundred years on from 1922, the great year of modernism, is the time to do so. I have chosen to take, as my topographical focus, the County of Sussex because not only was it a place that each of my writers visited or lived in but it was, and is, emblematic of a vision of England(Featherstone2008), and indeed English modernism, not normally associated with Islam. My work will challenge these visions.