Interruption and Stasis in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1353/sel.2021.a903391

Annika Mann

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Abstract

Abstract:This article suggests that Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head (1807) operates as a rejoinder to a larger medico-poetic discourse during the Romantic period, one that claimed poetry could move and thereby return its readers to health. Romantic-era poets and physicians regularly claimed that poetry can stimulate measured bodily motions, but the form and contents of Smith's poem are instead productive of interruption and stasis. Ruminating on the causes of rather than the cures for immobility, Smith's Beachy Head ultimately severs connections between poetry and healthfulness in favor of providing a record of chronic pain—of lives held in suspense.

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夏洛特·史密斯的比奇角的中断和停滞

摘要:本文认为，夏洛特·史密斯的《比奇岬》(1807)是对浪漫主义时期一种更大的医学诗歌话语的反驳，这种话语声称诗歌可以移动，从而使读者恢复健康。浪漫主义时期的诗人和医生经常声称，诗歌可以刺激有规律的身体运动，但史密斯诗歌的形式和内容却产生了中断和停滞。史密斯的《Beachy Head》反思了静止不动的原因，而不是治疗方法，最终切断了诗歌与健康之间的联系，转而记录了长期的痛苦——生活在悬疑之中。

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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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