Victorian Controversialists: Literary Form and the Rhetoric of Confrontation, 1830-1888

维多利亚时代的争议主义者：文学形式和对抗修辞，1830-1888

• 批准号: 2739926
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2739926
• 关键词: Victorian; Controversialists; Literary; Form; Rhetoric

The broad question my research project will answer is the following: to what extent did certain literary forms and rhetorical styles encourage or discourage controversy in nineteenth-century Britain? To answer this question, I will proceed by looking at several different types of prose during the period, including, but not limited to, the religious sermon, the historical novel, the travel memoir, the anonymous periodical essay, and the public lecture. The project will thereforeexamine the work of at least six controversialists - John Henry Newman, Harriet Martineau, Frederick Douglass, George Eliot, Fitzjames Stephen, and Matthew Arnold - to provide evidence of how different media, and the styles contained within those media, transform polite debate into heated controversy. My goal is for the project to contribute to 'style' theory - a critical movement that has grown rapidly in the past decade - by focusing on the rhetoric of confrontation.Cambridge, with its roots in practical criticism, and its continued focus on the art of close reading, has been at the forefront of style theory's renaissance, with Daniel Tyler's "Dickens's Style" (2013) and Michael Hurley and Marcus Waithe's "Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century" (2018) as two recent examples in this tradition.

我的研究项目将回答的一个广泛的问题是：在19世纪的英国，某些文学形式和修辞风格在多大程度上鼓励或阻止了争议？为了回答这个问题，我将继续研究这一时期几种不同类型的散文，包括但不限于宗教布道、历史小说、旅行回忆录、匿名期刊文章和公开演讲。因此，该项目将重新审视至少六位争议学家的作品——约翰·亨利·纽曼、哈里特·马蒂诺、弗雷德里克·道格拉斯、乔治·艾略特、菲茨詹姆斯·斯蒂芬和马修·阿诺德——以提供证据，证明不同的媒体以及这些媒体中包含的风格如何将礼貌的辩论转化为激烈的争议。我的目标是通过关注对抗修辞，为“风格”理论——一个在过去十年中迅速发展的批判运动——做出贡献。剑桥大学以实践批评为根基，并持续关注细读艺术，一直处于风格理论复兴的前沿，丹尼尔·泰勒的《狄更斯的风格》（2013）和迈克尔·赫尔利和马库斯·韦斯的《通过风格思考：漫长的十九世纪非虚构散文》（2018）是这一传统的两个最新例子。