ABSTRACT

Three letter-writing nineteenth-century heroines lay out domestic worlds to their fictional readers in which moral sentiment and norms of citizenship versus individual desire are at stake. In an era of nascent capitalism and nation building, these are aspects of significance. But what role does writing letters play? And what impact do epistolary novels have on citizenship and gender at the time? With Michel Foucault and Étienne Balibar as theoretical framework, this article discusses three epistolary novels—The Illusions (1836) by Sophie von Knorring in connection to Grannarne (1837) by Fredrika Bremer and Araminta May (1838) by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist—in order to discern how female writing produces the gendered citizen.

摘要

19世纪，三位写信的女主人公向虚构的读者展示了家庭世界，他们的道德观念和公民规范与个人欲望之间的关系stake可危。在新生的资本主义和国家建设的时代，这些都是重要的方面。但是写信起什么作用呢？当时的书信小说对公民身份和性别有什么影响？本文以米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）和埃蒂安·巴里巴尔（ÉtienneBalibar）为理论框架，按顺序讨论了三篇书信小说-苏菲·冯·克诺林（Sophie von Knorring）的《幻觉》（Illusions）（1837）与弗雷德里卡·布雷默（Fredrika Bremer）的格兰纳内（1837）和卡尔·乔纳斯·洛夫·阿尔姆奎斯特（Carl Jonas Love Almqvist）的阿拉米塔·梅（Araminta May）（1838）。辨别女性写作是如何产生性别公民的。