“我很擅长航海和食人”:理查德·弗拉纳根《欲望》中的其他狄更斯和维多利亚时代的人

B. Kucała
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摘要:本文分析了理查德·弗拉纳根的小说《欲望》(2008),认为这是一种对19世纪意识形态的修正和批判态度的叙事,这种态度在许多新维多利亚时代的小说中是常见的,而且实际上是刻板的。根据维多利亚时代两位杰出人物的传记:查尔斯·狄更斯和约翰·富兰克林爵士,弗拉纳根将他们的小说对手划分为受人尊敬的公众形象和黑暗的内心自我。虽然所有维多利亚时代的人物都被描绘成与他们的公众形象不同的“他者”,但小说和本文的重点是狄更斯在社会礼仪与个人不满之间调和的斗争。通过狄更斯对富兰克林不幸的北极探险队中饥饿的幸存者诉诸同类相食的指控的回应,弗拉纳根表现了这种冲突。这位维多利亚时代的作家驳斥这些报道的热情,揭示了他自己在遵守社会和道德规范方面的困难。本文认为,小说中不同叙事线之间的主要联系是它们共同对文明与野蛮概念之间的区别提出了挑战。
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“I am rather strong on Voyages and Cannibalism”: The other Dickens and other Victorians in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting
Abstract This paper analyses Richard Flanagan’s novel Wanting (2008) as a narrative informed by a revisionary and critical attitude to nineteenth-century ideologies, which is common to, and, indeed, stereotypical in much neo-Victorian fiction. Drawing on the biographies of two eminent Victorians: Charles Dickens and Sir John Franklin, Flanagan constructs their fictional counterparts as split between a respectable, public persona and a dark, inner self. While all the Victorian characters are represented as “other” than their public image, the focus in the novel, and in this paper, is on Dickens’s struggle to reconcile social propriety with his personal discontent. Flanagan represents this conflict through Dickens’s response to the allegations that starving survivors of Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition resorted to cannibalism. The zeal with which the Victorian writer refuted such reports reveals his own difficulty in living up to social and moral norms. The paper argues that the main link between the different narrative strands in the novel is the challenge they collectively pose to the distinction between the notions of civilization and savagery.
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