Dreaming of Islam Among the Modernists of Sussex

我的研究将探讨伊斯兰教在凯瑟琳曼斯菲尔德，詹姆斯乔伊斯和弗吉尼亚伍尔夫的作品中的地位和存在，在每一个案例中，他们在苏塞克斯郡的时间集中。在我的研究中，时间顺序的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（Melman，1992和Said，1993）对英语现代主义产生了影响，尽管这种影响往往是秘密的或被掩盖的，但意义重大。这一意义尚未得到充分的研究，而现在，距离1922年--现代主义的伟大之年--已经过去了100年，是时候这样做了。我之所以选择苏塞克斯郡作为我的地形学重点，不仅是因为它是我的每一位作家访问或居住的地方，而且它过去是，现在也是英格兰愿景的象征（Featherstone 2008），实际上是英国现代主义，通常与伊斯兰教无关。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.