奥特朗托城堡与辉格党的历史幻想

IF 0.4 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.a900659

Kay Chronister

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摘要：在本文中，我认为霍勒斯·沃波尔在《奥特兰托城堡》中使用历史典故破坏了辉格党的政治意识形态，而这种看似直截了当的篡位和复仇叙事往往被视为支持辉格党政治意识形态。小说中的许多典故都集中在17世纪和18世纪辉格党史学中处于矛盾地位的人物身上，在某些情况下表现为争取自由的哥特式十字军战士，而在另一些情况下则表现为暴君或篡位者。更重要的是，沃波尔在小说文本中对这些典故进行了分层，从而从《奥特兰托城堡》中出现了一个相互竞争的解释可能性的重写本，而不是一个明确的战胜暴政的连续叙事。

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The Castle of Otranto and the Whig Fantasy of History

Abstract:In this paper, I argue that Horace Walpole's use of historical allusions in The Castle of Otranto undermines the Whig political ideology which this seemingly straightforward narrative of usurpation and vengeance has often been seen to support. Many of the allusions in the novel center on figures who occupied an ambivalent position in the Whig historiography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, appearing in some contexts as Gothic crusaders for freedom and in others as tyrants or usurpers. What's more, Walpole layers these allusions in the text of the novel so that a palimpsest of competing interpretative possibilities—rather than a clear sequential narrative of triumph over tyranny—emerges from The Castle of Otranto.

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.