Technological and Narrative Inventions in Defoe’s The Consolidator
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This article examines the literary significance of the “strange” inventions in Daniel Defoe’s fantastic lunar narrative The Consolidator. While critics often comment that these fantastic devices help Defoe’s narrator better understand the problems plaguing the English government in their discussion of the text as a political allegory, they rarely discuss exactly how these machines grant their users such enhanced insight, which I examine by relating them to Defoe’s literary techne. In addition to using the strange technological inventions to illustrate his mild parody of the “strange, therefore true” trope, Defoe employs them as direct analogies for his narrative inventions. I argue it is through such analogies that Defoe expresses his concern regarding the extensive use of imagination, resulting in his adherence to the standards of empiricism in his later imaginary narratives. His imaginative creation of the strange devices to contemplate the most effective way to delivering the “truth” about England not only situates his lunar narrative within the tradition of using the sense of possibility that accompanied sea travel to engage in imaginative speculations, but also helps link The Consolidator to his much better-known work Robinson Crusoe and thereby demonstrates its valuable contribution to Defoe’s literary canon.
Abstract
This article examines the literary significance of the “strange” inventions in Daniel Defoe’s fantastic lunar narrative The Consolidator. While critics often comment that these fantastic devices help Defoe’s narrator better understand the problems plaguing the English government in their discussion of the text as a political allegory, they rarely discuss exactly how these machines grant their users such enhanced insight, which I examine by relating them to Defoe’s literary techne. In addition to using the strange technological inventions to illustrate his mild parody of the “strange, therefore true” trope, Defoe employs them as direct analogies for his narrative inventions. I argue it is through such analogies that Defoe expresses his concern regarding the extensive use of imagination, resulting in his adherence to the standards of empiricism in his later imaginary narratives. His imaginative creation of the strange devices to contemplate the most effective way to delivering the “truth” about England not only situates his lunar narrative within the tradition of using the sense of possibility that accompanied sea travel to engage in imaginative speculations, but also helps link The Consolidator to his much better-known work Robinson Crusoe and thereby demonstrates its valuable contribution to Defoe’s literary canon.
참고문헌 (26)
- Arthur, Paul Longley, "Virtual Voyages : Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837" (2010), Anthem Press
- Backscheider, Paula, "Daniel Defoe: His Life" (1989), Johns Hopkins UP
- Bogel, Fredric V., "The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron" (2001), Cornell UP
- Cressy, David, "Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon", American Historical Review, 111(4), pp.961~982 (2006)
- Defoe, Daniel, "The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon" (2001), AMS Press
- Defoe, Daniel, "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (2007), Oxford UP
- Furbank, P. N., "A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe" (2006), Pickering and Chatto
- Gildon, Charles, "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D____ De F__. Robinson Crusoe", pp.257~261 (1994), Norton
- Godwin, Francis, "The Man in the Moone: or, A Discourse of a Voyage thither. Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century", pp.237~283 (1968), Norton
- Hunter, J. Paul, "The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe’s Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe" (1966), Johns Hopkins UP
- Lamb, Jonathan, "Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840" (2001), Chicago UP
- 이시연, "Somnium, The Man in the Moone, and Reading the Lunar New World in Post-Galileian Europe", 근대영미소설, 24(2), pp.85~116 (2017), 한국근대영미소설학회
- Marchitello, Howard, "Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750", pp.161~178 (2012), Ashgate
- McKeon, Michael, "The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740" (2002), Johns Hopkins UP
- Novak, Maximillian E., "Crusoe the King and the Political Evolution of his Island", Studies in English Literature, 2(3), pp.337~350 (1962)
- Novak, Maximillian E, "Daniel Defoe : Master of Fictions" (2001), Oxford UP
- Parrett, Aaron, "The Translunar Narrative in the Western Tradition" (2004), Ashgate
- Patey, Douglas Lane, "Swift’s Satire on ‘Science’ and the Structure of Gulliver’s Travels", ELH, 58(4), pp.809~839 (1991)
- Seidel, Michael, "Headnote and Textual Notes. The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. By Daniel Defoe", pp.xv~xxxviii (2001), AMS Press
- Shaw, Narelle L., "Ancients and Moderns in Defoe’s Consolidator", Studies in English Literature, 28(3), pp.391~400 (1988)
- Sill, Geoffrey, "Introduction and Explanatory Notes. Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe. Vol. 3", pp.1~26 (2003), Pickering and Chatto
- Starr, G. A., "Defoe and China", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43(4), pp.435~454 (2010)
- Swift, Jonathan, "Gulliver’s Travels" (2002), Norton
- Vickers, Ilse, "Defoe and the New Sciences" (1996), Cambridge UP
- Watt, Ian, "The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding" (2001), U of California P
- Wilson, Francis, "The Dark Side of Utopia: Misanthropy and the Chinese Prelude in Defoe’s Lunar Journey", Comparative Critical Studies, 4(2), pp.193~207 (2007)