"Soot in one's soup": Transitory Blackness in British Romantic Chimney-Sweep Literature

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0005

J. Goheen

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Abstract

Abstract:The seemingly benevolent chimney-sweep literature written between 1785–1825 reflects the antiblack attitudes that permeated the Romantic period. Blackness in this body of literature suggests that whether sweeps are characterized as benign or threatening, they were reviled by reformers and protectors for being Black. Sweeps, this essay argues, became canvases for benevolent activists on which to project their racist anxieties about the transitory nature of Blackness. Such readings further enable us to see that fears of Blackness instantiate Britain's anxieties about its failure to produce a material atmosphere that secured neat distinctions between white and black bodies.

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“汤里的烟灰”:英国浪漫主义扫烟囱文学中的短暂黑暗

摘要:写于1785-1825年间的看似仁慈的扫烟囱文学反映了浪漫主义时期弥漫的反黑人态度。这些文学作品中的黑人特征表明，无论清洁工被描述为善意还是威胁，他们都因为是黑人而受到改革者和保护者的辱骂。这篇文章认为，扫荡成了仁慈的活动人士的画布，他们在上面投射出对黑人短暂本质的种族主义焦虑。这样的阅读进一步使我们看到，对黑人的恐惧体现了英国对其未能创造出一种物质氛围的焦虑，这种氛围确保了白人和黑人身体之间的明确区别。

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期刊介绍： Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.