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‘As though Miles of Ocean did not Separate us’: Print and the Construction of a Transatlantic Free Love Community at the Fin de Siècle
Journal of Victorian Culture ( IF 0.444 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-29 , DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcz054
Sarah L Jones 1
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Abstract This article argues that British and American free lovers – radical sexual reformers committed to the cause of ‘sexual freedom’ – came together through print to build a transatlantic community at the fin de siècle. Challenging existing narratives that characterize free love as isolated or incoherent, it argues that through print free lovers from Britain and America were able to forge links with each other, and to construct an important, coherent collective identity that transcended national boundaries. In doing so it makes two major interventions. First, it provides unique new insights into the history of free love in both the British and American contexts, placing a new focus on often overlooked transnational connections and exchanges that helped to shape late nineteenth-century free love campaigns. Second, it encourages historians to rethink the ways we look for and make sense of cohesive international reform communities more broadly in this period. By exploring how a small, radical group like the free lovers were able to cohere through processes of contestation and negotiation played out entirely in print, this article will show that, where necessary, print was enough for transatlantic reformers to construct common identities and negotiate coherent reform ideas. As such, it argues that historians of fin-de-siècle social reform should look again at the print culture of other contemporary reformers otherwise labelled divided, isolated, or marginalized to look for threads of cohesion, cooperation, and compromise.

中文翻译:

“仿佛万里长海没有将我们分开”:世纪末的印刷品和跨大西洋自由爱情社区的建设

摘要 本文认为,英国和美国的自由爱好者——致力于“性自由”事业的激进性改革者——通过印刷走到了一起,在世纪末建立了一个跨大西洋的社区。它挑战了现有的将自由爱情描述为孤立或不连贯的叙事,认为通过来自英国和美国的无印刷版爱好者能够建立彼此的联系,并构建一个重要的、连贯的集体身份,超越国界。在这样做时,它进行了两项主要干预。首先,它对英国和美国背景下的自由恋爱历史提供了独特的新见解,将新的重点放在经常被忽视的跨国联系和交流上,这些联系和交流有助于塑造 19 世纪后期的自由恋爱运动。第二,它鼓励历史学家重新思考我们在这一时期寻找和理解具有凝聚力的国际改革社区的方式。通过探索像自由爱好者这样的小而激进的团体如何能够通过完全在印刷品上进行的争论和谈判过程而凝聚在一起,本文将表明,在必要时,印刷品足以让跨大西洋改革者构建共同的身份并协商一致改革思路。因此,它认为世纪末社会改革的历史学家应该重新审视其他当代改革者的印刷文化,否则会被贴上分裂、孤立或边缘化的标签,以寻找凝聚力、合作和妥协的线索。像自由爱好者这样的激进团体能够通过完全在印刷品上进行的争论和谈判过程而凝聚在一起,本文将表明,在必要时,印刷品足以让跨大西洋改革者构建共同的身份并协商一致的改革思想。因此,它认为世纪末社会改革的历史学家应该重新审视其他当代改革者的印刷文化,否则会被贴上分裂、孤立或边缘化的标签,以寻找凝聚力、合作和妥协的线索。像自由爱好者这样的激进团体能够通过完全在印刷品上进行的争论和谈判过程而凝聚在一起,本文将表明,在必要时,印刷品足以让跨大西洋改革者构建共同的身份并协商一致的改革思想。因此,它认为世纪末社会改革的历史学家应该重新审视其他当代改革者的印刷文化,否则会被贴上分裂、孤立或边缘化的标签,以寻找凝聚力、合作和妥协的线索。
更新日期:2019-11-29
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