"Priceless Gems of Living Thought": Literary Encounters with Anarchism at the fin de siècle

“生命思想的无价宝石”：世纪末文学与无政府主义的邂逅

• 批准号: 2750976
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 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-2750976
• 关键词: Priceless; Gems; Living; Thought; Literary

Why did Oscar Wilde post bail for a decadent poet who opened fire on Parliament? Why did the descendantsof prominent Pre-Raphaelite painters print a seditious magazine from the basement of their parents' home?And what do such examples reveal about the complex relationship between radical politics and literature in thenineteenth century? More specifically, to what extent were literary networks entwined with anarchist networks?Amid a series of bombing campaigns across nineteenth-century Europe, anarchist ideas such as direct action,propaganda by deed and mutual aid became vital to leftist politics. In London, where exile and émigréanarchists gathered, this culture of transnational exchange and radical autonomy transformed literaryaesthetics. Critical understanding of radical politics and literature in the nineteenth century - hithertodominated by discussion of the "socialist revival" - is transformed if we re-centre anarchism.By reading late Victorian and early modernist literature in the context of contemporaneous anarchist thoughtand praxis, I intend to show that anarchism's widespread influence on the production, circulation, andreception of literature at this time creates new socio-aesthetic relationships across class, gender, and nationalboundaries. While literary studies inspired by Benedict Anderson's notion of "imagined communities" tend tobe dominated by the category of the nation, my PhD seeks to show how such practices take place bothbeyond and within national boundaries.Alongside close analysis of works by anarchist fellow-travellers William Morris and Oscar Wilde, I will developa critical understanding of neglected texts such as Helen and Olivia Rossetti's journalism and fictionalisedmemoir A Girl Among the Anarchists (1903). A fourth chapter will reclaim Ethel Carnie Holdsworth - the firstworking-class woman to publish a novel in Britain - as a writer whose poetry about industrial poverty inLancashire fuses transnational cosmopolitan radicalism with a commitment to provincial localism.

为什么奥斯卡·王尔德要保释一个向议会开枪的颓废诗人？为什么拉斐尔前派著名画家的后代会在他们父母家的地下室里印刷一本煽动性的杂志？这些例子揭示了19世纪激进政治和文学之间的复杂关系是什么？更具体地说，文学网络在多大程度上与无政府主义网络纠缠在一起？在19世纪欧洲的一系列轰炸运动中，直接行动、行动宣传和互助等无政府主义思想对左翼政治至关重要。在伦敦，流亡者和反叛分子聚集在这里，这种跨国交流和激进自治的文化改变了文学美学。对19世纪激进政治和文学的批判性理解——迄今为止主要是关于“社会主义复兴”的讨论——如果我们重新把无政府主义作为中心，就会发生转变。通过在当代无政府主义思想和实践的背景下阅读维多利亚晚期和早期现代主义文学，我打算展示无政府主义在这个时期对文学的生产、流通和接受的广泛影响，创造了跨越阶级、性别和国家界限的新的社会美学关系。受本尼迪克特·安德森（Benedict Anderson）的“想象共同体”概念启发的文学研究往往以国家的范畴为主导，而我的博士学位则试图展示这种实践是如何在国界内外发生的。除了仔细分析无政府主义同路人威廉·莫里斯和奥斯卡·王尔德的作品外，我还将对被忽视的文本进行批判性的理解，比如海伦和奥利维亚·罗塞蒂的新闻和虚构回忆录《无政府主义者中的女孩》（1903年）。第四章将重新审视埃塞尔•卡尼•霍尔兹沃思——英国第一位出版小说的工人阶级女性——作为一位作家，她的诗歌描写了兰开夏郡的工业贫困，融合了跨国世界主义的激进主义和对地方主义的承诺。