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題名:Between Fact and Myth: The Kingdom of the Nonhuman in the Victorian Literary Imagination
書刊名:Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
作者:顏淑娟
作者(外文):Yan, Shu-chuan
出版日期:2007
卷期:33:1
頁次:頁223-251
主題關鍵詞:AnimalsNonhuman creaturesScienceRomanceElizabeth GaskellCharles Kingsley
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Abstract
This paper is an attempt to examine how animals and mythical creatures
acquire an ideological importance in the Victorian imagination, a process
which often involves the rise of conflicts in the taxonomic traditions in natural
science. I explore the Victorian engagement with natural science through
animal narratives that inform the works of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles
Kingsley—Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), Wives and
Daughters: An Every-Day Story (1866), and The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale
for a Land Baby (1863). These texts engage with animal issues both in terms
of cultural meanings and scientific implications, allowing the reader to see
exactly how the human-animal boundary is constructed. Besides, they
constitute a critical site for the representation of the conflict between truth/fact
and myth/fantasy, science and romance. Moreover, I probe the role played by
creatures such as apes and mermaids (perceived as either factual or imaginary)
in the making of popular myth, as well as in the investigation of the central
idea of systematic classification in the Victorian imagination. They present the
taxonomic debate on classifying and categorizing species, which meanwhile
illustrates the dichotomy of scientific realism and romantic imagination. When
we consider the confusion between the idea of the ape and of the missing (or
the myth-ing) link, we may better understand scientific discourse about the
nature of species in the Victorian literary imagination.
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7.(1863)。Kingsley's Water-Babies。Anthropological Review,1(3),472-76。  new window
8.(1862)。Gorilla Hunting in Great Britain。Punch,43,148。  new window
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21.Kingsley, Charles(1995)。The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby。The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby。Oxford。  new window
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圖書論文
1.Browne, J.(1996)。Biogeography and Empire。Cultures of Natural History。Cambridge:Cambridge University Press。  new window
 
 
 
 
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