Sensory Experience in the Contact Zone 1876 - 1938

该项目调查了1876年至1938年期间自然世界感官体验叙事中记录的当代情感生态批评的先例。在朱利叶斯·伯恩斯坦的《人的五种感官》（1876）和吕西恩·费夫尔的《一个价值：历史与心理学》（1938）的框架下，我认为这一时期产生的文本证明了玛丽·路易斯·普拉特的建议，即与新地理相遇的地点，即“接触区”，是“地理上和历史上分开的人们相互接触并建立持续关系的空间”（普拉特，1992:6）。在帝国的话语中，经常被重新铭文在遭遇的叙述中，自然世界的感官体验暴露了一个矛盾的场所，有可能引起对陌生地区居民的同情。我通过跨学科的实践来研究这种潜力，仔细阅读一系列小说、短篇小说和旅行作品，密切关注物质对象。通过与惠康收藏的医学古董接触，我阅读了包括奥利弗·施赖纳、拉迪亚德·吉卜林、W·H·哈德森、E·M·福斯特、D·H·劳伦斯、凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德、斯特拉·本森、弗雷娅·斯塔克和玛丽安·诺斯在内的作家的作品，揭示了感官体验和同理心“接触区”之间的关系。追溯当代对感觉的关注与19世纪末和20世纪初作家之间的连续性，该项目不仅提供了关于规范和鲜为人知的文本的新知识，还提供了理解当代环境正义话语的途径，阐明了与自然世界的接触如何使性别、经济和种族化的权力结构复杂化。随着全球对自然环境的威胁日益严重，低收入国家和高收入国家之间的鸿沟持续存在，这样一个项目对解决建立对人与地方之间关系的理解的迫切需要做出了重要贡献。

This project investigates the antecedents for contemporary affective ecocriticism as documented in narratives of sensory experience of the natural world in the period 1876-1938. Framed by Julius Bernstein's The Five Senses of Man (1876) and Lucien Febvre's "Une vue d'ensemble: Histoire et psychologie" (1938), I suggest that this period produced texts evidencing Mary Louise Pratt's suggestion that the site of encounter with new geographies, the 'contact zone', is "the space in which people geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations" (Pratt, 1992: 6). Within the discourses of empire frequently re-inscribed within narratives of encounter, sensory experience of the natural world exposes a site of ambivalence with the potential to invite empathy with inhabitants of unfamiliar geographies.I investigate this potential through interdisciplinary practice, weaving close readings of a range of novels, short stories, and travel writings, with close attention to the material object. Contextualised through engagement with the medical antiquities of the Wellcome Collection, my readings of writers including Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, W H Hudson, E M Forster, D H Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Stella Benson, Freya Stark and Marianne North emerge to expose the relationship between sensory experiences and an empathetic 'contact zone'.Tracing a line of continuity between contemporary concerns for sensation and writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this project not only provides new knowledge on both canonical and lesserknown texts, it also offers routes to understanding contemporary discourses of environmental justice, illuminating how engagement with the natural world can complicate gendered, economic, and racialised power structures. With the increasing global threat to natural environments and the continued gulf between lowincome and high-income nations, such a project makes an important contribution to addressing the urgent need to build understanding of the relationship between people and place.