圣基尔达与崇高

F. Macdonald
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本文考虑了19世纪苏格兰对崇高的追求如何在前往圣基尔达的航行中得到体现,圣基尔达是苏格兰外赫布里底群岛以西的一个偏远岛屿群岛。它将圣基尔达的历史建筑视为维多利亚时代游客的终极目的地,这个地方提供了一套关于古代和现代的不协调的话语;进步和浪漫;福音主义和不虔诚。论文以十八世纪美学理论——特别是詹姆斯·麦克弗森和埃德蒙·伯克——对圣基尔达的早期兴趣为基础,展示了这种进入奥西尼亚和海洋崇高的物质冒险是如何被岛民的宗教和社会组织所破坏的。如果早期游客的修辞策略将圣基尔达定位在“世界的边缘”,那么我提请注意该岛是如何成为苏格兰教会地理的中心的。考虑到19世纪苏格兰教会的政治生活盖过了国家的政治生活,使用圣基尔达作为长老会政体的象征意义重大。在现代苏格兰民族寻求治理和社区的历史视角的背景下,这个“岛屿共和国”的故事在当代意义的产生中变得重要。通过挑战旅行者叙述的道德-政治权威,我将更大程度的能动性归因于岛民,从而质疑圣基尔丹历史的主导叙述。
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St Kilda and the Sublime
This paper considers how the search for the sublime in nineteenth-century Scotland found its expression in the voyage to St Kilda, a remote island archipelago west of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. It looks at the historical construction of St Kilda as an ultima Thule for Victorian travellers, a site which offered an incongruous set of discourses on antiquity and modernity; improvement and romance; evangelicalism and impiety. Grounding the early interest in St Kilda in eighteenth-century aesthetic theory - specifically that of James MacPherson and Edmund Burke - the paper shows how this corporeal adventure into the Ossianic and oceanic sublime was disrupted by the islanders’ religion and social organization. If the rhetorical strategies of the early tourists located St Kilda ‘on the edge of the world’, I draw attention to how the island was central to the ecclesiastical geography of Scotland. Given that for nineteenth-century Scotland the political life of the church eclipsed that of the state, the use of St Kilda as an emblem of Presbyterian polity was highly significant. In the context of a modern Scottish nation searching for historical perspectives on governance and community, the story of this ‘island republic’ has become important in the production of contemporary meaning. By challenging the moral-political authority of the travellers’ accounts, I ascribe a greater degree of agency to the islanders and thereby question the dominant narrative of St Kildan history.
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