『공감의 힘, 혹은 자연의 승리』에 나타난 ‘자연’과 공화주의
“Nature” and Republicanism in The Power of Sympathy: or, the Triumph of Nature
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This paper aims to elucidate the meanings of “Nature” in William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy: or, the Triumph of Nature (1789) in the premise that concept of Nature is of great consequence in the discourses of Republicanism in the early America. Nature was charged with the contested meanings in the battle of ideologies between the advocates of English monarchy and the republicans; the opposite parties derived the authority of their arguments from the various demarcations of defining “nature” and “natural”in their own ways. In this novel, meanings of “nature” vary from the humanistic impulse against God’s grace to human mind as in the scene when Mr. Holmes argues that reading books is like the cultivation of nature. Finally, as the catastrophe surge of incest destroys the ill-starred lovers Harrington and Harriot, “nature” that presides over their tragedy gives us even a glimpse of its deterministic character. In Brown’s novel, I argue, the ideal of republicanism that theoretically disavows class differences is undermined when the revelation comes that it was from their mutual affinity as half-blooded siblings that the peril of incest originates, despite of their seemingly republican love that had overcome the consciousness of class distinctions. As the major assumption of republicanism is stranded on the reef of the impediments to republican marriage and the affliction caused by homogeneity, the meaning of nature encompassing hypotheses of Enlightenment and Sentimentalism is simultaneously ruptured and impaired.
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This paper aims to elucidate the meanings of “Nature” in William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy: or, the Triumph of Nature (1789) in the premise that concept of Nature is of great consequence in the discourses of Republicanism in the early America. Nature was charged with the contested meanings in the battle of ideologies between the advocates of English monarchy and the republicans; the opposite parties derived the authority of their arguments from the various demarcations of defining “nature” and “natural”in their own ways. In this novel, meanings of “nature” vary from the humanistic impulse against God’s grace to human mind as in the scene when Mr. Holmes argues that reading books is like the cultivation of nature. Finally, as the catastrophe surge of incest destroys the ill-starred lovers Harrington and Harriot, “nature” that presides over their tragedy gives us even a glimpse of its deterministic character. In Brown’s novel, I argue, the ideal of republicanism that theoretically disavows class differences is undermined when the revelation comes that it was from their mutual affinity as half-blooded siblings that the peril of incest originates, despite of their seemingly republican love that had overcome the consciousness of class distinctions. As the major assumption of republicanism is stranded on the reef of the impediments to republican marriage and the affliction caused by homogeneity, the meaning of nature encompassing hypotheses of Enlightenment and Sentimentalism is simultaneously ruptured and impaired.
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