内战时期的美国,士兵、读者和对维克多·雨果《不幸的人》的接受

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2016-06-28 DOI:10.5325/RECEPTION.8.1.0005
Vanessa Steinroetter
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本文考察了维克多·雨果的小说《不幸的人》在南北战争时期的文学接受情况,以及文学和文化因素导致其如此受欢迎。1862年在法国出版后,《missamrables》很快被翻译成英文,并在美国出现了两个版本。虽然之前的学者已经注意到这部小说是一部关于内战的畅销书,但这篇文章是第一次利用手写和印刷资料的档案,包括虚构和非虚构的文本,来研究雨果的小说在美国内战读者中产生如此强烈共鸣的原因。这篇文章认为,士兵们在他们的自传写作中引用了这部小说,以创造一个镜头,通过这个镜头来观察和评论他们的战争经历,而约翰·埃斯滕·库克等小说家则借鉴了雨果在他们自己的事业中为自由而斗争的信息。这部小说在美国士兵中受到热烈欢迎的另一个原因是,它的主题是战斗和苦难,对人物和场景的同情认同的潜力,以及在文学市场严重混乱的时期广泛流行。
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Soldiers, Readers, and the Reception of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in Civil War America
This article examines the literary reception of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in Civil War America and the literary and cultural factors contributing to its remarkable popularity. After its 1862 publication in France, Les Misérables was quickly translated into English and appeared in two American editions. While previous scholarship has noted the novel’s status as a bestseller of the war, this article is the first to draw on an archive of handwritten and printed sources, including fictional and nonfictional texts, to examine the reasons Hugo’s novel resonated so strongly with Civil War American readers. This article argues that soldiers used references to the novel in their autobiographical writing to create a lens through which to view and comment on their wartime experiences, while novelists such as John Esten Cooke drew on Hugo’s message of struggle for freedom in their own cause. Additional reasons for the novel’s warm reception among American soldiers lie in its themes of fighting and suffering, potential for empathetic identification with characters and scenes, and widespread availability at a time of considerable disruptions to the literary marketplace.
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期刊介绍: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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