历史小说的兴衰?十九世纪期刊评论的研究

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI:10.1080/08905495.2023.2196887
Helen Kingstone, Jonathan Taylor
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正如历史小说家Hilary Mantel所承认的那样,“一些读者对历史行为深表怀疑。他们说,从本质上讲,这是一种误导”(Mantel 2017,5)。这种怀疑在很大程度上源于该类型的事实和事实成分的混合,Alessandro Manzoni在19世纪20年代首次系统地提出了这一理论。1然而,无论是在19世纪的鼎盛时期,还是在曼特尔自己的作品中所体现的当前复兴时期,这一流派都在不断地被书写和欣赏。更重要的是,自从历史的“语言学转向”(White 1973;White 2014),以及史学元作用的兴起(Hutcheon 1995)导致该流派(某些后裔)的文学地位复兴以来,学者们不得不重新评估这种批评的术语。本文调查了这部历史小说在19世纪是如何被接受的,以及评论家在不同时期对它的期望或要求。我们将定量和定性技术相结合,研究了19世纪英国期刊对这一类型的评论数据集,以调查评论家评价历史小说的依据,以及它在期刊中的受欢迎程度在整个世纪是如何变化或保持不变的。这项研究关注的是体裁,而不是任何一位作者,不仅有助于我们理解文学品味和实践的历史,也有助于更广泛地研究19世纪的期刊。我们的分析表明,文学史上长期存在的问题——关于行动和历史各自能提供的真相——在19世纪由于这一特定小说亚流派的重要性而呈现出新的形式。是什么造就了一部“成功”的历史小说,在这一类型小说的整个生命周期中一直存在争议。György Lukács认为,马克思主义意义上的历史小说——一部揭示过去社会结构变化的小说,通常是通过沃尔特·斯科特在韦弗利(1814)创作的那种“平庸英雄”——在1848年革命失败后陷入停顿
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The rise and fall of the historical novel? A study of nineteenth-century periodical reviews
As historical novelist Hilary Mantel acknowledged, “ some readers are deeply suspicious of historical fi ction. They say that by its nature it ’ s misleading ” (Mantel 2017, 5). The sus-picion largely stems from the genre ’ s hybrid of factual and fi ctional components, fi rst sys-tematically theorised by Alessandro Manzoni in the 1820s. 1 However, the genre keeps being written and enjoyed, both in its nineteenth-century heyday and in a current revival epitomised in Mantel ’ s own work. What is more, since history ’ s “ linguistic turn ” (White 1973; White 2014), and the rise of historiographic meta fi ction (Hutcheon 1995) leading to a revival in the literary status of (certain scions of) the genre, scholars have had to re-evaluate the terms of this critique. This article investigates how the historical novel was received during the nineteenth century, and what reviewers expected or required of it at di ff erent times. We combine quantitative and qualitative techniques, examining a dataset of reviews of the genre from nineteenth-century British periodicals, to investigate the grounds on which reviewers evaluated historical novels, and how its reception in periodicals changed, or stayed the same, across the century. This study, focused on genre rather than on any single author, contributes not only to our understanding of the history of literary tastes and practices, but also to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals more generally. Our analysis shows that longstanding questions in literary history – about the kinds of truth that fi ction and history each could o ff er – took new forms in the nineteenth century due to the signi fi cance of this particular novelistic sub-genre. What makes a “ successful ” historical novel has been under debate throughout the genre ’ s lifespan. György Lukács argued that the historical novel in a particular Marxist sense – a novel that reveals the structural changes taking place in a past society, typically through the sort of “ mediocre hero ” that Walter Scott creates in Waverley (1814) – ground to a halt after the failure of the 1848 Revolutions
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期刊介绍: Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others.
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