ABSTRACT Counterposing The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) with John Hawkesworth's “official” account of Pacific encounter (1773), this essay examines the potential of fiction to critique British exploration narratives and the readers who consumed them. Bowman's distinctive representation of the Pacific and narrative of stadial progression highlight the fictional nature of the voyage accounts that would claim to be factual. As the eponymous sailor details his interactions with Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, the novel displays various modes of authority over experience that undermine the perspective of traditional records of encounter and expose readers' complicity in perpetuating such accounts. In placing factual information within allegorical and fictional settings, the novel emphasises not only the ways the popular understanding of the Pacific is a product of the imperial imagination and the British print matrix, but also that this same imagination is essential for confronting the corrupting effects of global trade and expansion.

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“说谎很容易；第二天再写一段的矛盾”：希尔德布兰德鲍曼游记和英国殖民印刷矩阵的批判

摘要 将《希尔德布兰德鲍曼游记》（1778 年）与约翰霍克斯沃斯对太平洋遭遇的“官方”描述（1773 年）相对立，这篇文章考察了小说在批评英国探险叙事和消费它们的读者方面的潜力。鲍曼对太平洋的独特表现和对运动进程的叙述突出了航海记述的虚构性质，这些记述声称是真实的。由于同名的水手详细描述了他与太平洋土著人民的互动，小说展示了各种经验权威模式，这些模式破坏了传统相遇记录的视角，并暴露了读者在延续此类记录时的共谋。在寓言和虚构的环境中放置事实信息时，