Articles of War: Subjects and Objects Aboard the Nineteenth-Century Naval Novel

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D. Cook
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ABSTRACT This essay engages the world of the nineteenth-century naval novel, considering how the ‘wooden world’ presented in such narratives came to shape a unique representational order. Taking Captain Frederick Marryat’s The King’s Own (1830) as primary evidence, it is argued that naval novels depict the man-of-war as a place where the things – and men – of the parlour and marketplace find themselves reconstituted as components of the ‘Service’. This alternate order emerges in one of the most exhilarating features of high-seas thrillers: their recurrence to dense, largely un-translated nautical terminology. Such language foregrounds the man-of-war as a purely functional assemblage of parts, inviting the subject to die and become reborn as an object of state. At one level, this project was distinctly British. At the same time, the British fixation on naval gadgetry resonates with American and French naval novels of the period, cooperating in what arguably became a transnational militarism. Such narratives prepare the way for a modern ideological strategy by which warfare becomes ennobled on the basis of its economic sanctity.
战争条款:19世纪海军小说中的主体和客体
这篇文章涉及19世纪海军小说的世界,考虑如何“木制世界”呈现在这样的叙述来塑造一个独特的代表性秩序。以弗雷德里克·马里亚特船长的《国王的自己》(1830年)为主要证据,有人认为海军小说把军舰描绘成客厅和市场上的东西和人发现自己被重组为“服务”的组成部分的地方。这种交替的顺序出现在公海惊悚片最令人兴奋的特征之一:它们反复出现密集的、基本上未经翻译的航海术语。这样的语言将军舰作为一个纯粹的功能部件组合,邀请主体死亡并重生为国家的对象。在某种程度上,这个项目明显是英国的。与此同时,英国人对海军装备的迷恋与当时的美国和法国海军小说产生了共鸣,在一种可以说是跨国军国主义的情况下进行了合作。这样的叙述为现代意识形态战略铺平了道路,通过这种战略,战争在其经济神圣性的基础上变得高尚。
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