ABSTRACT:The influence of the sinking of the ship the Lusitania in the short fiction of World War I cannot be overstated; in many ways, it serves as a historical "before and after" that heralded not only a new kind of warfare but also a new kind of fear. This paper argues that the Lusitania is both a point of convergence and a point of divergence for Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Conrad, each of whom writes his own submarine story on either side of the Lusitania's sinking. Conan Doyle's "Danger!" sees England's decline in the threat of submarine warfare and offers as a response a classic epideictic rhetorical situation that is at once jarring and contentious. Conrad, whose "The Tale" serves as a critical and crucial bookend to Conan Doyle's story, interrogates two distinct aspects of the fear experience: (1) the ways in which the form of fear evolves with the progression of the Great War from an antiquated concern over the decline of influence to a looming, ever-present out there, indecipherable and undeterminable yet no less potent in its manifestation; and (2) the complicated relationship between literature and the proliferation of propagandafueled texts like Conan Doyle's that have the effect of turning fear into a political emotion.

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被恐惧淹没：康拉德和柯南道尔的战时歇斯底里的政治

摘要：在第一次世界大战的短篇小说中，卢西塔尼亚号沉没的影响不容小觑；在许多方面，它是一个历史性的“前后”，不仅预示着一种新的战争，而且预示着一种新的恐惧。这篇论文认为，对于阿瑟·柯南·道尔和约瑟夫·康拉德来说，卢西塔尼亚号既是一个汇合点，也是一个分歧点，他们每个人都在卢西塔尼亚号沉没的两侧写下了自己的潜艇故事。柯南道尔的《危险！》看到英格兰在潜艇战威胁方面的下降，并提供了一种既不和谐又充满争议的经典的流行性修辞情况作为回应。康拉德的《故事》是柯南道尔故事的关键书挡，询问恐惧体验的两个不同方面：（1）恐惧的形式随着第一次世界大战的进展而演变的方式，从对影响力下降的过时关注到迫在眉睫的，永远存在的，难以理解和无法确定的但它的表现同样强大；(2) 文学与像柯南道尔 (Conan Doyle) 这样具有将恐惧转化为政治情绪的宣传文本的扩散之间的复杂关系。