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Boggley wollah and 'sulphur-steams': Colonialism in 'Vanity Fair' and 'Jane Eyre'.

机译:Boggley wollah和“硫磺蒸汽”:“名利场”和“简爱”中的殖民主义。

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This thesis examines Vanity Fair's Indian connection by focusing on Jos Sedley, and investigates Jane Eyre's Jamaican coloniality through a discussion of Bertha, Richard Mason, and Edward Rochester. These characters in both novels provide a potential critique of Britain's imperial project by suggesting that the colonies are locations of physical, psychic and moral corruption as well as degeneracy and death.;The introductory chapter includes historical background for both colonial loci. Chapter 2 examines Vanity Fair's Jos Sedley, the corpulent Collector of Boggley wollah. As an employee of the British East India Company, Jos Sedley at first appears to be a parodic portrait of an early nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian nabob; however, as the novel progresses, Jos's actions, character traits, treatment by the Company, and relationships with his family and other characters reveal a possible critique of Britain's commercial project in India. Chapter 3 moves from Asia to the Caribbean to focus on three characters in Jane Eyre with direct or indirect connections to the Jamaican sugar-slave system: Bertha Mason Rochester, Richard Mason, and Edward Rochester. Through her connection to a corrupt, slave-driven colonial economic system, Bertha seems to devolve into a dehumanized, monstrous creature; Richard too appears monstrous, imbecilic, and immature; and Rochester is seduced by colonial sensuality and avarice. The thesis concludes by briefly examining in Chapter 4 some key late twentieth-century, early twenty-first century postcolonial concerns and demonstrating how Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre may have anticipated some of these postcolonial ideas.
机译:本文着眼于乔斯·塞德利(Jos Sedley),研究了名利场(Vanity Fair)与印度的关系,并通过对伯莎(Bertha),理查德·梅森(Richard Mason)和爱德华·罗切斯特(Edward Rochester)的讨论,研究了简·艾尔(Jane Eyre)在牙买加的殖民主义。这两篇小说中的这些人物通过暗示殖民地是人身,精神和道德腐败以及堕落和死亡的场所,提供了对英国帝国计划的潜在批判。;引言部分包括这两个殖民地的历史背景。第2章探讨了名利场(Vanity Fair)的博格利·沃尔拉(Boggley wollah)身材丰富的收藏家乔·塞德利(Jos Sedley)。作为英国东印度公司的一名员工,乔斯·塞德利(Jos Sedley)最初似乎是十九世纪初期盎格鲁-印第安纳布人的讽刺肖像。然而,随着小说的发展,乔斯的举止,性格特征,公司的待遇以及与他的家人和其他角色的关系揭示了对英国在印度商业项目的批评。第3章从亚洲搬到加勒比海地区,着重介绍简·爱的三个角色,这些角色与牙买加的糖奴制有直接或间接的联系:伯莎·梅森·罗切斯特,理查德·梅森和爱德华·罗切斯特。通过与腐败,奴隶驱动的殖民地经济体系的联系,贝莎似乎沦落为一种非人性的,可怕的生物。理查德也显得怪异,卑鄙,不成熟。罗切斯特(Rochester)被殖民地的淫荡和贪欲所吸引。本文的结论是在第4章中简要研究了20世纪后期,二十一世纪初的一些后殖民问题,并论证了Vanity Fair和Jane Eyre如何预料到其中的一些后殖民思想。

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  • 作者

    Massey, Ellen.;

  • 作者单位

    Villanova University.;

  • 授予单位 Villanova University.;
  • 学科 Literature English.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 73 p.
  • 总页数 73
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 I561;
  • 关键词

  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:38:24

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