Politics, Religion and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu
Politics, Religion and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu
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政治、宗教与爱情：根据埃德温·塞缪尔·蒙塔古的生平和书信改编的 H.H. 阿斯奎斯、维尼西亚·斯坦利和埃德温·蒙塔古的故事
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1991
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Naomi Levine
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这是三个意志坚强的人的故事：H。H.阿斯奎斯，英国首相;他的朋友和知己，埃德温·塞缪尔·蒙塔古，内阁中的犹太成员，也是印度的国务卿;第三个，性解放的韦内蒂亚斯坦利;一个聪明的和政治上老练的女人，英国最古老的贵族家庭之一的成员。这个故事主要是通过埃德温·蒙塔古的生活和信件讲述的，阿斯奎斯和韦内蒂亚斯坦利的信件为画面增色不少。婚姻不忠;政治、战争、帝国、宗教--这几个因素都在蒙塔古-阿斯奎斯-斯坦利三角关系中发挥了作用。由于阿斯奎斯和蒙塔古深深卷入了他们那个时代的政治，这本必然之书也就是一部英国处于帝国衰落边缘的历史。内奥米·莱文认为，个人的情感、态度、爱、恨和价值观（或缺乏这些）对历史的影响往往与通常被认为是指导历史的宏观力量一样大，甚至更大。这本书也是对世纪初英国种族主义和反犹太主义的一次详述，不仅发生在保守党的未受教育者或疯子边缘，而且发生在受过良好教育的人、牛津和剑桥的明星以及自由党的领导人中间。它表明，即使像蒙塔古这样受过良好教育和富有的人，几乎完全被同化，一生都在试图摆脱他的犹太教，娶了一个对所有宗教都不屑一顾的女人，也不能免于反犹太主义的痛苦和羞辱。
This is the story of three strong-willed individuals: H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of England; his friend and confidant, Edwin Samuel Montagu, a Jewish member of the Cabinet, and also Secretary of State of India; and the third, the sexually liberated Venetia Stanley; a brilliant and politically sophisticated woman and a member of one of England's oldest aristocratic families. This story is primarily told through the life and letters of Edwin Montagu, with the letters of Asquith and Venetia Stanley adding to the picture. Marital infidelity; politics, war, empire, religion - these several factors all played a part in the Montagu-Asquith-Stanley triangle. Because Asquith and Montagu were deeply involved in the politics of their time, the book of necessity is as much a history of Britain on the verge of its imperial decline. Naomi Levine argues that the feelings attitudes, loves, hates and values (or lack of them) of individual men and women often influence history as much or more than the macroforces that are usually credited with directing history. The book is also a recital of racism and anti-Semitism in England in the early century not merely among the uneducated or the lunatic fringe of the Tory Party, but among the well-educated, the stars of Oxford and Cambridge, and the leaders of the Liberal Party as well. It demonstrates that even so educated and affluent a man as Montagu, almost totally assimilated, who spent a lifetime trying to escape his Judaism, who married a woman who had nothing but scorn for all religions - was not immune from the pain and humiliation of anti-Semitism.