British Sociability in the European Enlightenment - Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
British Sociability in the European Enlightenment - Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
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欧洲启蒙运动中的英国社交——文化实践和个人遭遇
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10.1007/978-3-030-52567-5_4
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2021
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从18世纪70年代开始，劳伦斯·斯特恩的《崔斯特瑞姆·珊迪的生平和观点》、《绅士》（1759-67）、《法国和意大利的感伤之旅》（1768）和苏珊娜·罗森的《夏洛特·坦普：一个真实的故事》（1791）中的人物墓地作为一种独特的文学形式出现在德国和美国。本文认为，玛丽亚和夏洛特这两位文学女主人公的坟墓是一种手段，读者可以通过与喜爱的死去的人物交流，或者通过社交朝圣，或者仅仅是在想象中，与其他感伤的读者交流，来表达感伤小说传统的高度敏感性特征。考虑到感伤小说中女性主人公特有的悲剧结局，这里所描述的扫墓实践取决于同时也取决于探索女性性行为及其与死亡关系的叙述。因此，小说人物的坟墓促进了读者堂吉诃德式的哀悼，同时也有可能引发对感怀文学文化对女性性行为的框架的集体批评，而不是以婚姻作为悲剧的方便结论。
From the 1770s onwards gravesites of characters from Laurence Sterne’sLife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman(1759–67),A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy(1768) and Susanna Rowson’sCharlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth(1791) appeared across Germany and in America as a unique form of literary afterlife. This essay argues that graves of literary heroines, Maria and Charlotte, were a means by which readers could express the heightened sensibility characteristic of the sentimental novel tradition through communing with favourite dead characters and—whether through sociable pilgrimage or simply in imagination—other sentimental readers. Considering the characteristically tragic outcomes for female protagonists of the sentimental novel, the practice of grave-visiting described here depends on while also unpacking narratives which explore female sexuality and its relationship with death. Graves to fictional characters therefore facilitated readers’ quixotic mourning while holding the potential to provoke collective criticism of sentimental literary culture’s framing of female sexuality, other than that which conveniently concludes with marriage, as tragedy.