Abstract:This article attempts an interpretive reorientation toward Charles Brockden Browns gothic novel Ormond by examining the eighteenth-century political ideas it engages. Locating what I call, following Amanda Anderson, a "cosmopolitan ideal" at the core of democratic life, Ormond, I argue, registers the influence of both Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws and The Federalist on Brown's thought concerning the relationship between political institutions and the "spirit"—the manners, customs, and practices—of a given people. Emphasizing these elements of the novel's concern with the nature of political analysis and reflection in a democratic world constantly threatened by violence, danger, and deceit requires us, I contend, to reassess the role of Sophia Courtland in the novel. Far from the voice of a narrow conservatism that critics have long attacked, Sophia, when properly situated in her eighteenth-century context, emerges as the novel's most astute analyst of the relationship between political ideas and the "spirit" that provides their motive force—a faculty that Ormond, following Montesquieu and Publius, suggests is necessary to the stability and survival of liberal democracy.

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“政府与礼仪”：《联邦主义者》和查尔斯·布罗克登·布朗的《奥蒙德》中的世界主义和自由民主的“精神”

摘要：本文通过考察查尔斯·布罗克登·布朗的哥特小说《奥蒙德》所涉及的 18 世纪政治思想，试图对其进行重新定位。我认为，按照阿曼达·安德森（Amanda Anderson）的说法，我认为奥蒙德是民主生活核心的“世界主义理想”，它记录了孟德斯鸠的《法律精神》和《联邦主义者》对布朗关于政治制度与政治制度之间关系的思想的影响。 “精神”——特定民族的举止、风俗和习惯。在一个不断受到暴力、危险和欺骗威胁的民主世界中，强调小说中的政治分析和反思的性质需要我们重新评估索菲亚考特兰在小说中的角色。