This paper argues for strong affinities between Dickens’s handling of political violence in Bleak House (1852–3) and the alteration in meaning of the words ‘terror’ and ‘terrorism’ in the nineteenth century. Between the French Revolution and the beginning of the twentieth century, ‘terror’ and ‘terrorism’ shifted from connoting revolutionary violence wielded by the state to criminal political violence committed by clandestine organisations and individuals. I first read two key moments of political violence in the novel via Lyotard’s definition of ‘the Event’ as the occurrence that cannot be represented. I argue that Dickens’s novel responds to this problem of representation in a dual movement: on the one hand revolutionary violence is confined to the criminal discourse of the detective police, on the other, ‘modern’ conspiratorial terrorism is returned to the discourse of the French Revolution.

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荒凉屋从恐怖到恐怖：写事件，代表人民

本文论证了狄更斯在《荒凉之屋》（1852-3）中对政治暴力的处理与 19 世纪“恐怖”和“恐怖主义”这两个词的含义变化之间的密切联系。从法国大革命到 20 世纪初，“恐怖”和“恐怖主义”从国家使用的革命暴力转变为秘密组织和个人实施的犯罪政治暴力。我首先通过利奥塔 (Lyot​​ard) 将“事件”定义为无法再现的事件来阅读小说中政治暴力的两个关键时刻。我认为狄更斯的小说在双重运动中回应了这个再现问题：一方面，革命暴力仅限于侦探警察的犯罪话语，另一方面，