Since the publication of Robert Halsband's biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1956 and his later edited collection of her letters, modern scholars have been fascinated with the network of critical discourses in Montagu's writing in the Turkish Embassy Letters. Analyzing her work on multiple axes – religious, political, scientific, and gendered – contemporary critics have made this classic text accessible to new generations of readers and thinkers. Yet as scholarship on these letters continues to flourish, certain trends persist, often at the expense of new avenues of inquiry. This article proposes that several recent threads in the scholarly conversation surrounding the Turkish Embassy Letters have the potential to be expanded in three promising new directions to more fully explore Montagu's religious identity and its relationship to her discussions of religious belief and practice; her unique role as a mother while traveling; and her place in the smallpox variolation controversy and its relationship to disability.

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玛丽·沃特利·蒙塔古夫人和土耳其大使馆信件：当代批评调查

自从1956年罗伯特·霍尔斯班德（Robert Halsband）所著的《玛丽·沃特利·蒙塔古夫人》（Mary Wortley Montagu）传记出版和他后来编辑的书信集以来，现代学者都对蒙塔古在《土耳其使馆书》中的批判性话语网络着迷。分析她在宗教，政治，科学和性别等多个方面的工作，当代评论家已经使这一经典文本可供新一代的读者和思想家使用。然而，随着对这些信件的学术研究不断蓬勃发展，某些趋势持续存在，但往往以新的调查途径为代价。本文提出，围绕土耳其大使馆信函的学术对话中的几个近期话题有可能在三个有希望的新方向上得到扩展，以更充分地探索蒙塔古 的宗教身份及其与她对宗教信仰和实践的讨论之间的关系；她在旅行中作为母亲的独特角色；以及她在天花水痘争论中的位置及其与残疾的关系。