Britannia and the Weight of Empires Past: The Instance of Falconer's The Shipwreck

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1215/00982601-10394870

Suvir Kaul

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Abstract:Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762) contains substantial passages in which the poet surveys the Greco-Roman cities and ruins visible to sailors as they sail past landmasses in the Mediterranean. This survey of past and present is a reminder of the changing fortunes—the rise and fall—of powerful city-states and empires. The poem's primary theme is the peril faced by sailors on trading voyages, on which they provide the labor, face the dangers, but earn few of the profits. By invoking the Greco-Roman past, however, Falconer also warns his readers of the human costs of commercial and imperial ambition.

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不列颠尼亚和帝国的重量:以Falconer的《沉船》为例

摘要:法尔科纳的《沉船》(1762)包含了大量的段落，在这些段落中，诗人审视了水手们航行经过地中海大陆时看到的希腊罗马城市和废墟。对过去和现在的回顾提醒着我们命运的变化——强大的城邦和帝国的兴衰。这首诗的主要主题是海员在贸易航行中所面临的危险，他们提供劳动力，面临危险，但却赚取很少的利润。然而，通过引用希腊罗马的过去，法尔科纳也警告他的读者，商业和帝国野心的人类代价。

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期刊介绍： Committed to interdisciplinary exchange, Eighteenth-Century Life addresses all aspects of European and world culture during the long eighteenth century, 1660–1815. The most wide-ranging journal of eighteenth-century studies, it also encourages diverse methodologies—from close reading to cultural studies—and it always welcomes suggestions for review essays, special issues, and innovative approaches. Among Eighteenth-Century Life’s noteworthy regular features are its film forums, its review essays, its book-length special issues, and the longest and most eclectic lists of books received of any journal in the field.