岌岌可危的奥斯汀:一个寒酸的绅士故事

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Romanticism Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.3366/rom.2023.0593

C. Tuite

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我的文章从今天无可争议的不朽的奥斯汀往回追溯，考虑到一个不稳定的奥斯汀——一个处于下沉“太低”边缘的奥斯汀，正如她的侄子詹姆斯·爱德华·奥斯汀-利给奥斯汀小说片段《华生一家》中的女主角起的标签。这个奥斯汀不是当今全球统治下的老处女，而是1817年的奥斯汀，一个未婚的中年妇女，靠她哥哥们的慈善生活在查顿小屋。“在她权力的巅峰时期”(根据弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的说法)，她也是脆弱的、逃亡的、寒酸的绅士。我认为，不稳定的范畴有助于我们追溯奥斯汀对社会等级、体裁、语气和文体的独特标准，并考虑塑造奥斯汀名声的史前经济、社会、情感和文体形式。

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Precarious Austen: A Shabby Genteel Story

My essay works backward from today’s incontrovertibly immortal Austen to consider a precarious Austen – an Austen on the verge of sinking ‘too low’, as her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, labelled the heroine of Austen’s novel fragment, The Watsons. This Austen is not the spinster redux of today’s global domination, but the Austen of 1817, an unmarried middle-aged woman living off the charity of her brothers at Chawton Cottage. ‘At the height of her powers’ (according to Virginia Woolf), she was also fragile, fugitive, shabby genteel. The category of precarity, I argue, helps us to trace Austen’s unique calibrations of social rank, genre, tone and stylistics, and to consider the economic, social, emotional and stylistic forms that shape the prehistory of Austenian fame.

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期刊介绍： The most distinguished scholarly journal of its kind edited and published in Britain, Romanticism offers a forum for the flourishing diversity of Romantic studies today. Focusing on the period 1750-1850, it publishes critical, historical, textual and bibliographical essays prepared to the highest scholarly standards, reflecting the full range of current methodological and theoretical debate. With an extensive reviews section, Romanticism constitutes a vital international arena for scholarly debate in this liveliest field of literary studies.