George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer (1706), performed after England’s stunning victory at the Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), stages Captain Plume’s efforts to prepare English recruits for warfare. In this essay, I specifically consider Plume’s “Recruiting Airs,” a regime that not only impresses recruits but also recalibrates the feedback loop between climate and England’s physical and social bodies. Indeed, as the eighteenth-century doctor John Arbuthnot codifies, early modern climatic theory posits that the air produces, and, therefore, can alter England’s physical bodies. Plume’s airs permeate the town and deterritorialize Shrewsbury’s villagers. In different ways, the women, Melinda and Sylvia, apprehend the rapid upheavals recruitment causes, but Plume’s alliances with the town’s elite as well as Shrewsbury’s surprising associations with England’s colonial periphery indicate that the penetration of war-making into England’s rural communities is too entrenched to challenge.

中文翻译：

---

“我们呼吸的空气”：法夸尔《招募官》中的战争

George Farquhar 的 The Recruiting Officer (1706) 在西班牙王位继承战争 (1701–14) 期间英格兰在布伦海姆战役 (1704 年 8 月 13 日) 中取得惊人胜利后演出，展示了 Plume 上尉为英国新兵做好战争准备的努力。在这篇文章中，我特别考虑了 Plume 的“招聘风气”，一种不仅给新兵留下深刻印象的制度，而且还重新调整了气候与英格兰物理和社会机构之间的反馈循环。事实上，正如 18 世纪的约翰·阿布思诺特博士所编纂的那样，早期现代气候理论假定空气会产生，因此可以改变英格兰的身体。Plume 的气氛弥漫在镇上，使什鲁斯伯里的村民解体。以不同的方式，女性，梅琳达和西尔维亚，理解快速动荡的招聘原因，