Gertrude Bell in the Fin-de-Siècle Near East: Decadent Landscapes and Political Ecologies

IF 0.2 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

VICTORIAN STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.09

Angie Blumberg

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay recovers travel writing by Gertrude Bell, a well-known British explorer and archaeologist whose work is seldom examined in literary studies. Building on recent efforts to contextualize Bell’s early texts within late-Victorian Aestheticism and Decadence, this article examines Bell’s meditations on three landscapes and historical sites across Persian Pictures (1894) and The Desert and the Sown (1907), teasing out their rich engagement with political ecologies. Suggesting that in these meditations on Near Eastern landscapes, Bell offers a Decadent political ecology that anticipates her later diplomatic endeavors, this essay offers new ways of understanding the politics of aesthetics at the fin de siècle.

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格特鲁德·贝尔在近东:颓废的景观和政治生态

摘要:本文对英国著名探险家、考古学家格特鲁德·贝尔的旅行写作进行了研究，贝尔的作品在文学研究中很少受到关注。本文将贝尔的早期文本置于维多利亚时代晚期唯美主义和颓废主义的背景下，研究了贝尔在《波斯图画》(1894)和《沙漠与播种》(1907)中对三处风景和历史遗址的思考，梳理出它们与政治生态学的丰富联系。在这些对近东风景的沉思中，贝尔提供了一种颓废的政治生态，预示着她后来的外交努力，这篇文章提供了理解最后阶段美学政治的新方法。

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0.90

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