Charlotte Smith's Ugly Feelings

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI:10.1353/SEL.2019.0027

Daniel Froid

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Abstract

Abstract:This article examines Charlotte Smith's engagement with the sublime aesthetic in the Elegiac Sonnets. Advancing Sianne Ngai's discussion of noncathartic, negative affects in Ugly Feelings, I argue that Smith develops a noncathartic or ugly version of the sublime feeling. In her sonnets Smith brings the sublime into contact with melancholy, describing scenes that first appear to evoke the sublime feeling but culminate in fatigue, anxiety, and sorrow. In doing so, Smith draws attention to the sense of limited agency her poetic persona experiences due to the very material conditions that drive her to write. This deflated version of the sublime suggests Smith's criticism of the gendered construction of emotional and aesthetic response in eighteenth-century literary culture.

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夏洛特·史密斯的《丑陋的感情

摘要:本文考察了夏洛特·史密斯在《哀歌十四行诗》中对崇高美学的投入。在Sianne Ngai在《丑陋的感觉》中对非宣泄性的负面影响的讨论的基础上，我认为史密斯发展了一种非宣泄性的或丑陋的崇高感觉。在她的十四行诗中，史密斯将崇高与忧郁联系在一起，描述的场景首先唤起崇高的感觉，但最终以疲劳，焦虑和悲伤告终。在这样做的过程中，史密斯将人们的注意力吸引到她的诗意人格经历的有限代理感上，这是由于驱使她写作的物质条件。这种收缩版的崇高暗示了史密斯对十八世纪文学文化中情感和审美反应的性别建构的批评。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.

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