William Falconer's "Sons of Neptune": The Merchant Service, the Royal Navy, and The Shipwreck

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1215/00982601-10394896

J. Banister

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Abstract:One month after the publication of his poem on merchant seafaring, The Shipwreck (1762), William Falconer left merchant sailing to become a junior officer in the Royal Navy. In the midcentury, many commentators believed that the Royal Navy's sailors were superior to merchant sailors. Falconer's response can be traced by contrasting his first edition of The Shipwreck with the revisions he made to the poem after joining the Royal Navy. The revisions address directly the notion that merchant sailors value only financial reward, but then focus on the notion that sailors who fight for king and country are braver than those who move cargo. In the revised narrative of the sailors' battle with the elements, Falconer emphasizes the physical limits to their bravery, and thus suggests that merchant sailors are like Royal Navy sailors because all sailors are equally vulnerable to storms at sea.

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威廉·法尔科纳的《海王星之子》:商船、皇家海军和沉船

摘要:在威廉·法尔科纳关于商船航海的诗歌《沉船》(1762)发表一个月后，他离开了商船，成为了英国皇家海军的一名下级军官。在本世纪中叶，许多评论家认为皇家海军的水手比商船水手优越。法尔科纳的回应可以通过对比他的第一版《沉船》和他加入皇家海军后对这首诗的修订来追溯。修订直接解决了商船水手只看重经济回报的观念，但随后又把重点放在了为国王和国家而战的水手比运送货物的水手更勇敢的观念上。在修订后的水手们与大自然搏斗的叙述中，法尔科纳强调了他们勇敢的身体限制，从而暗示商船水手就像皇家海军水手一样，因为所有的水手都同样容易受到海上风暴的影响。

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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.