How Samuel Taylor Coleridge Suspended Henry Fielding’s Disbelief

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2021-07-22 DOI:10.1353/sel.2020.0027

Zoe Beenstock

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Abstract

Abstract:This article argues that Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous statement on the willing suspension of disbelief was borrowed from Henry Fielding’s novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. Coleridge adapted Fielding’s view of fiction as a hypothetical space for interrogating the foundations of knowledge. He adopts a dilemma in Fielding’s fiction between the willing suspension of disbelief as a form of knowledge, and the notion, derived from Samuel Richardson, that aesthetic experience suspends the will. The result is a contradictory concept of the will as both present and absent in aesthetic experience, implicit in Fielding’s fictions and accentuated in Coleridge’s literary theory.

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塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治如何延缓亨利·菲尔丁的怀疑

摘要:本文认为，柯勒律治关于“自愿中止怀疑”的名言借鉴自亨利·菲尔丁的小说《约瑟夫·安德鲁斯》和《汤姆·琼斯》。柯勒律治改编了菲尔丁的小说观，将其作为对知识基础进行质疑的假设空间。他在菲尔丁的小说中采用了一种两难的方式，一方面是自愿地将怀疑作为一种知识形式，另一方面是塞缪尔·理查森(Samuel Richardson)提出的美学经验将意志悬置的观点。其结果是一个矛盾的概念，即意志在审美经验中既存在又不存在，隐含在菲尔丁的小说中，又在柯勒律治的文学理论中得到强调。

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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.