Reading by Firefly

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2023.0007

Lily Gurton‐Wachter

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay argues that the figure of the firefly sheds light on an environmental poetics that expands our understanding of how literature represented slavery in the Romantic period. Focusing on Edward Rushton's West-Indian Eclogues (1787) and Charlotte Smith's "To the Fire-fly of Jamaica, seen in a Collection" (1804), I trace how the firefly exposes the intersection of slavery and natural history, and thwarts the familiar abolitionist impulses to metaphorize, sympathize, and sentimentalize. Flickering on and off, the firefly ultimately registers the failure of a figure to capture and a poetics of intermittence and parataxis that resurfaces in contemporary Black ecopoetry.

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萤火虫阅读

摘要：本文认为萤火虫的形象揭示了一种环境诗学，它扩展了我们对浪漫主义时期文学如何表现奴隶制的理解。我以爱德华·拉什顿的《西印度群岛的幻像》（1787年）和夏洛特·史密斯的《致牙买加的萤火虫，收藏》（1804年）为中心，追溯萤火虫如何揭露奴隶制和自然历史的交叉点，并挫败人们熟悉的废奴主义者隐喻、同情和伤感的冲动。萤火虫忽隐忽现，最终记录了一个人物捕捉的失败，以及在当代黑人生态诗歌中重新出现的间歇性和副性诗学。

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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.