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Things with character: Personified abstractions in nineteenth-century Britain.

机译：有特色的东西：19世纪英国的个性化抽象。

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"Things with Character" describes the complex history of an abstraction, "depth of character," and the derivative abstractions that writers articulated in relation to it. "Depth of character" was an abstract category of value and a technology of representation that enabled Victorians to animate a range of commonly held assumptions about their collective experiences. Its figures articulated moral and epistemological validity with the ineffability, self-division, inaccessible interiority, and other subjective processes that we now associate with the "deep" or "round" characters of psychological realism. I catalog the formal figures of depth of character, which range from the Baconian rhetoric of particularity, generality, and induction to the colloquial idioms of "as if," "but," and "that sort of thing" that distinguish the prose styles of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot. In addition to works by those novelists, the epistemology of character underwrote a generically diverse range of writings by William Hazlitt, Richard H. Horne, Walter Pater, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Samuel Smiles, and others. These writers used the figures of deep character to generate, validate, and moralize abstractions, including the objects and methods of criticism, the spirit of the age, the factory system, the collective authorship of periodicals, and the values allegedly produced by novels. Deep character and the formal features that produced it textually personified and animated objects of knowledge, whereas competing modes of representation, which relied on numbers and quantification, tended to reify, simplify, and dehumanize the abstractions they produced. I recover the tensions between figures of morality, subjectivity, and material reality in such competing genres, and I sketch the way that various kinds of value were linked to different ways of knowing the world.
机译：“带有字符的事物”描述了抽象的复杂历史，“字符的深度”，以及与之相关的作者明确表达的派生抽象。 “品格的深度”是价值的抽象类别和代表技术，使维多利亚时代的人们可以为自己的集体经历设定一系列共同的假设。它的人物通过道德的，认识论的有效性，无能为力，自我分裂，难以接近的内部性以及我们现在与心理现实主义的“深层”或“全面”特征相关联的其他主观过程来表达。我对人物性格的形式化人物进行分类，范围从培根的特殊性，普遍性和归纳性修辞到口语化的“仿佛”，“但是”和“那种东西”的口语习语，用以区别散文风格。查尔斯·狄更斯，安东尼·特罗洛普和乔治·艾略特。除了这些小说家的作品外，人物的认识论还撰写了威廉·哈兹利特，理查德·H·霍恩，沃尔特·帕特，托马斯·卡莱尔，哈丽埃·马蒂诺，塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯等人的著作。这些作家使用具有深厚品格的人物来生成，验证和道德抽象化，包括批评的对象和方法，时代精神，工厂制度，期刊的集体著作权以及小说所宣称的价值。深刻的性格和产生它的形式特征通过文本将其个性化和生动地呈现为知识对象，而依赖于数字和量化的竞争性表示方式往往会对其所产生的抽象进行具体化，简化和非人性化。我在这种竞争的流派中恢复了道德，主体性和物质现实之间的紧张关系，并且勾勒出各种价值与了解世界的不同方式相关的方式。

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    Farina, Jonathan V.;

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    New York University.;

  • 授予单位 New York University.;
  • 学科 English literature.;European history.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2008
  • 页码 307 p.
  • 总页数 307
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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