ABSTRACT

This essay examines Anna Barbauld’s public protest through her antiwar afterlife and her contemporaneous reception, including accounts of her support for the French Revolution in the Belfast News-Letter. The essay identifies heretofore unknown reprintings of Barbauld’s antiwar rhetoric from Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation in a range of sources, from nineteenth-century British newspapers to nineteenth-century American schoolbooks to an early twentieth-century journal in Newfoundland to a Vermont newspaper in 1918, among others. Included in this “afterlife” is a work heretofore not addressed in scholarship. The piece is called “The Contrast: Or Peace and War,” published in The Athenaeum (1807). Barbauld’s “The Contrast,” the first prose poem in English, betrays an increasing pessimism that would find its profoundest expression in Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812). The essay contends that the Biblical cadences and pedagogical style of Barbauld’s landmark Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) represent a formal underpinning for the unsentimental expressions of “The Contrast.” Scholars must pursue with renewed vigor efforts to “uncover” or “unmask” evidence of women’s protest writing that became anonymously excerpted for a public readership. Despite the odds, Barbauld’s protests nevertheless persisted.

摘要

这篇文章通过她的反战来世和她同时期的接待，考察了安娜·巴博尔德的公开抗议，包括她在贝尔法斯特时事通讯中对法国大革命的支持。这篇文章从 19 世纪的英国报纸到 19 世纪的美国教科书，到 20 世纪早期纽芬兰的期刊，再到佛蒙特州的一份报纸，确定了迄今为止未知的巴博德反战言论的重印，来自政府的罪孽，国家的罪孽。 1918 年，等等。包括在这个“来世”中的是迄今为止学术界没有提到的一项工作。这篇文章被称为“对比：或和平与战争”，发表在雅典娜神庙(1807)。Barbauld 的“对比”是第一首英文散文诗，它揭示了一种日益严重的悲观主义，这种悲观主义在1811（1812）中得到了最深刻的表达。这篇文章认为，巴鲍德在《儿童散文》（1781 年）中具有里程碑意义的赞美诗的圣经节奏和教学风格代表了“对比”的冷漠表达的正式基础。学者们必须以新的活力努力“揭露”或“揭露”女性抗议写作的证据，这些证据被匿名摘录给公众读者。尽管可能性不大，Barbauld 的抗议仍然存在。