Tristram Shandy and War Representation

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1215/00982601-7993633

J. Richardson

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay examines Tristram Shandy in the context of philosophers and thinkers such as Hume, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson, focusing on how the novel represents war, and how it raises questions about sympathetic responses to war. I will argue that Sterne is concerned with the challenges of representing war, which he explores in studying Uncle Toby and Trim’s miniature fortifications, as well as the story of Le Fever, and the various sympathetic reactions, some of which are self-promotional, to death. Sterne places two modes of representing war in counterpoint—a “distancing” mode that entails objective reporting, and a mode that involves an individual, sympathetic narrative—to raise questions about the emotion, beauty, and impact of war representations. I will also argue that Sterne is responding to changes in the way war was publicly imagined.

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崔斯特瑞姆·珊迪与战争再现

摘要:本文在休谟、沙夫茨伯里和哈奇森等哲学家和思想家的背景下考察了《特里斯特拉姆·尚迪》，重点探讨了这部小说如何表现战争，以及它如何引发人们对战争的同情反应。我认为，斯特恩关注的是表现战争的挑战，他在研究托比叔叔和特里姆的微型防御工事时探索了这一点，还有《狂热》的故事，以及对死亡的各种同情反应，其中一些是自我推销。斯特恩将两种表现战争的模式对立起来——一种是需要客观报道的“距离”模式，另一种是涉及个人的、同情的叙述模式——以提出关于战争表现的情感、美和影响的问题。我还会说，斯特恩是在回应公众对战争想象方式的改变。

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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.