Palestine as Europe’s Future: Antiquity as Contemporaneity in Volney’s Travels, Considerations, and The Ruins

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2023.a903036

Zoe Beenstock

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Abstract:European Romanticism often represents Palestine in ageographical terms. Through an analysis of Volney’s writings on the East, this article traces Palestinian ageography to religiously-inflected discourses that identify Palestine as Europe’s future. Volney juxtaposes antiquarianism, realist travelogue, and science fictional literary modes to represent Palestine’s multiple spiritual pasts, its contemporaneity with Europe, and its prophetic anticipation of revolution. His account of Palestine shapes Romanticism and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as arguably the first science fiction novel, demonstrating the importance of religious discourses for Romantic European engagements with Palestine.

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巴勒斯坦作为欧洲的未来：沃尔尼游记、思考和废墟中的古代与当代

摘要:欧洲浪漫主义经常用地理术语来描述巴勒斯坦。通过对沃尔尼关于东方的著作的分析，本文将巴勒斯坦地理追溯到宗教影响的话语，这些话语将巴勒斯坦视为欧洲的未来。沃尔尼将古物收藏、现实主义游记和科幻小说文学模式并列起来，代表了巴勒斯坦的多重精神过去、与欧洲的同代人以及对革命的预言。他对巴勒斯坦的描述塑造了浪漫主义，玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》可以说是第一部科幻小说，证明了宗教话语对浪漫主义欧洲与巴勒斯坦交往的重要性。

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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.