Contagion and the Body Politic: De Quincey on the 1830 Revolution in France

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/lm.2023.a911452
Roxanne Covelo
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Abstract: Writing in the fall of 1830, in the period immediately following France's révolution de juillet , Thomas De Quincey predicts the imminent breakdown of social order in Britain. In his political writing for Blackwood's Magazine over the course of this period, he consistently frames the threat of French-style revolution in terms of the body politic and its vulnerability to contagion, often playing on the meaning of a country's "constitution." In 1831, upon the introduction of the Reform Bill, his worst fears appear to have been confirmed, and he now presents the upcoming revolution almost as a fait accompli. De Quincey's dire predictions fit into a larger framework of nineteenth-century alarmism surrounding contagion, "sympathy," and the collective action of the mob. This article examines the presence and influence of these concepts in De Quincey's political writing for Blackwood's over the period of 1830 to 1832, the year the Bill was successfully passed.
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传染病与政体:德·昆西论1830年法国革命
摘要:托马斯·德·昆西写于1830年秋,即法国革命后不久,他预言英国社会秩序即将崩溃。在这一时期为《布莱克伍德杂志》撰写的政治文章中,他始终如一地从政治体及其易受传染的脆弱性的角度来描述法式革命的威胁,经常玩弄一个国家“宪法”的含义。1831年,随着改革法案的提出,他最担心的事情似乎得到了证实,他现在几乎把即将到来的革命当作既成事实。德昆西的可怕预言符合19世纪围绕传染病、“同情”和暴民集体行动的危言耸听的更大框架。本文考察了德昆西在1830年至1832年期间为布莱克伍德撰写的政治写作中这些概念的存在和影响,这一年法案成功通过。
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