Dangerous Energies: Agency and Energy Regimes in the Waverley Novels

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0019

Siobhán Carroll

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Abstract:This article positions Walter Scott's Waverley novels as formative attempts to analyze Britain's transition to coal-based power. Situating the novels in relation to Scotland's drive to transition from peat to coal, the article argues that Scott's investment in coal is reflected, not only in his representation of fuel types, but also in the Waverley novels' narrative form. The novels' preference for passive protagonists and energetic secondary characters reflects an energy politics that valorizes disembodied, coal-associated agencies over those tied to the body. In their narrative form and conflicted politics, Scott's novels register the contested, incomplete nature of so-called energy transitions.

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危险的能量：韦弗利小说中的能动性与能量机制

摘要:本文将沃尔特·斯科特的韦弗利小说定位为分析英国向煤电转型的形成性尝试。本文将这些小说与苏格兰从泥炭向煤炭的转型联系起来，认为斯科特对煤炭的投资不仅体现在他对燃料类型的表现上，也体现在威弗利小说的叙事形式上。这些小说偏爱被动的主角和精力充沛的次要人物，这反映了一种能源政治，即重视与煤炭相关的无实体机构，而不是那些与身体有关的机构。在他们的叙事形式和冲突的政治中，斯科特的小说记录了所谓的能量转换的争议性和不完全性。

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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.