Feeling Solitary in the Seductive Republic: Narrative Deviance in Elizabeth "Harriot" Wilson and William "Amos" Wilson

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN
Ben Bascom
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This essay examines two prominent literary narratives and tropes at the turn of the nineteenth century that constellate around the seduction plot and the hermit narrative. These two ostensibly discrete narrative forms have a curious history as they play out in the printed iterations of the Elizabeth Wilson and William Wilson stories, two siblings whose lives were marked by differing forms of tragedy. By bringing together a tale of seduction, execution, and hermitic living, I show how the account of Elizabeth Wilson's execution for infanticide shifted from being a seduction plot to a frame tale for a hermit narrative about her brother. This narrative turn moves from an account that focuses on the policing of female sexuality to instead emphasize the curious life of a man who refuses social intercourse. But that shift actually signals something more complicated about how the early Republic sought to instill ways of feeling about gender and deviance.

在诱人的共和国中感到孤独:伊丽莎白-"哈里奥特"-威尔逊和威廉-"阿莫斯"-威尔逊的叙事偏差
摘要:本文探讨了十九世纪之交两种著名的文学叙事和套路,它们围绕着诱惑情节和隐士叙事展开。这两种表面上互不关联的叙事形式有着奇特的历史渊源,它们在《伊丽莎白-威尔逊》和《威廉-威尔逊》故事的印刷版本中不断上演。通过将诱奸、处决和隐居生活的故事结合在一起,我展示了伊丽莎白-威尔逊因杀婴而被处决的故事是如何从诱奸情节转变为关于其兄弟的隐居叙事的框架故事的。这一叙事转向从关注女性性行为的叙述转向强调一个拒绝与人交往的男人的奇特生活。但这一转变实际上预示着共和国早期是如何试图灌输对性别和偏差的感受方式的,这一点更为复杂。
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EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE LITERATURE, AMERICAN-
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