The argument presented in this article addresses a conflict that is fundamental to the eighteenth-century transformation of the novel namely that between the mobility restrictions imposed by the modern state and the novel's traditional dependency on the free mobility of its characters. J. G. Schnabel's Insel Felsenburg is a striking literary manifestation of this conflict. As I argue, the narrative logic of this voluminous and somewhat bizarre novel can only be fully appreciated when taking into account its complex negotiations of mobility and movement control. Marking the confluence of two novelistic traditions, the utopian novel and the adventure novel, it is equally reliant on the settledness and the nomadism of its central characters, the former being the precondition for social order, the latter the basis for the novel's narrative momentum. The structure of the novel results from an attempt to resolve this conflict by channelling mobility into politically and morally acceptable paths – that is, by inventing a literary movement control regime.

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乌托邦护照管制

本文提出的论点解决了对 18 世纪小说转型至关重要的冲突，即现代国家强加的流动限制与小说对其人物自由流动的传统依赖之间的冲突。JG Schnabel 的 Insel Felsenburg 是这种冲突的引人注目的文学表现。正如我认为的那样，只有在考虑到机动性和运动控制的复杂谈判时，才能充分理解这部庞大而有些奇怪的小说的叙事逻辑。标志着乌托邦小说和冒险小说两种小说传统的融合，它同样依赖于其中心人物的定居和游牧，前者是社会秩序的前提，后者是小说的基础” 的叙事势头。小说的结构源于试图通过将流动性引导到政治和道德上可接受的路径来解决这一冲突——也就是说，通过发明一种文学运动控制制度。