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題名 | Voyages and Visions: Imag(in)ing the Arctic in the Victorian Periodical, 1850s-1870s=地理探險、異域想像、與文化視野:英國維多利亞時期期刊中的北極世界 |
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作 者 | 顏淑娟; | 書刊名 | NTU Studies in Language and Literature |
卷期 | 16 民95.12 |
頁次 | 頁53-81 |
分類號 | 873 |
關鍵詞 | 英國維多利亞時期期刊; 家常話; 笨拙; 北極; 地理探險; 異域想像; Victorian periodicals; Household words; Punch; The arctic; Geographical exploration; |
語文 | 英文(English) |
中文摘要 | 本文試圖以英國維多利亞時期期刊為例,如小說家狄更斯自辦的周刊《家常話》(Household Words: A Weekly Journal)及幽默諷刺雜誌《笨拙》(Punch, or the London Charivari)等,探索冰天雪地的北極世界,如何引人遐想,展現不同的文化視野。文中以英國1850至1870期間的北極探險為切入點,分析地理探險和異域想像交織下的帝國意識型態。第一部份針對西北航路(The North-West Passage)在《家常話》周刊中所引起的「人吃人」的話題,詳敘鋪陳自我與他者、中心與邊陲,以及文明與蠻荒的區別。第二部份則討論《笨拙》雜誌的編輯及插畫家如何透「凝視」,書寫及描繪其心目中女性化的北極,進而建構出冰封異域的地理圖像。 |
英文摘要 | This paper is based on an archival research into a selected range of Victorian periodicals from the 1850s to the 1870s, namely Household Words: A Weekly Journal, and Punch, or the London Charivari, in an attempt to show how the practice of geographical exploration in the Arctic contributes to the vision of empire and enlarges Britain’s sphere in the world. Substantial attention is given to the ways in which exploration narratives about the Arctic is produced and consumed, and the role that the periodical press plays within the rapidly expanding discourse of exploration. It is argued that Britain’s pursuit of empire in the icy expanses of the Arctic can be seen textually and visually through the periodical literature. Journal articles contain verbal texts and nonverbal messages that help readers image and imagine the world elsewhere and satisfy an increasing appetite for visual information. To develop this argument, the paper examines how the public journalism sees the heroic nature of the Arctic explorers, for instance, John Franklin, Francis Leopold McClintock, George Strong Nares, and Henry Stephenson, as a reflection of the ideological production of a national imperial consciousness. In all cases, travel across the blank spaces of the Polar region constructs an exemplary site of cartographic fantasies and exotic sensations. Section I of the paper addresses the issue concerning the search for the North-West Passage, focusing specifically on the debate on the English Self and the Cannibal Other as, for example, raised in Charles Dickens’s family magazine Household Words. Along with the magazine, it also reads social-historical Victorian sources and contemporary criticism to engage the issue. Section II looks at the comic weekly magazine Punch to show how its drawings become a critical cultural site for the graphic representation of the imperial frontier and for teaching imperial geography to the reading public. Taken together, then, a consideration of the role of Victorian periodicals in the exploration and domestication of the foreign landscape of the Arctic outlines the specific socio-cultural-imperial context within which the interplay of geography and empire is constructed. |
本系統之摘要資訊系依該期刊論文摘要之資訊為主。