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“Stimulated by these agents to vigorous action”: the language of suntanning and materiality of skin in Victorian culture
European Journal of English Studies ( IF 0.694 ) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 , DOI: 10.1080/13825577.2022.2044146
Charlotte Mathieson 1
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ABSTRACT

This paper explores the materiality of skin as it is figured and re-figured through sunburn and suntanning descriptions in nineteenth-century culture. In nineteenth-century literary representations, the suntanned skin of white, British subjects is depicted through a rich array of terminology attending not only to the transformation of colour but also to the surface texture of the skin. This article identifies that, amid changing ideas about the embodiment of self within the skin, suntanning representations bring to the surface a particular ambivalence around the stability of the skin that manifests through explorations of the reconfiguration of the skin surface. The article analyses the language of suntanning to explore, firstly, how the action of sunburn and tanning reveals the skin as unstable and susceptible to the invasive actions of the sun, endangering the boundary-lines of the physical and conceptual self; and, secondly, instances in which suntanned skin is conceptualised through likeness to material objects in a way that metaphorically and conceptually hardens the skin and self against the wider world.



中文翻译:

“在这些物质的刺激下采取有力行动”:维多利亚时代文化中晒黑和皮肤物质性的语言

摘要

本文探讨了皮肤的物质性,因为它在 19 世纪文化中通过晒伤和晒黑的描述被塑造和重新塑造。在 19 世纪的文学作品中,英国人晒黑的皮肤通过一系列丰富的术语来描绘,这些术语不仅涉及颜色的变化,还涉及皮肤的表面纹理。本文指出,在关于皮肤内自我体现的观念不断变化中,晒黑的表征使皮肤表面呈现出一种特殊的矛盾心理,这种矛盾心理通过对皮肤表面重新配置的探索而体现出来​​。文章分析了晒黑的语言,首先探讨了晒伤和晒黑的作用如何揭示皮肤不稳定和容易受到太阳的侵入作用,危及身体和概念自我的边界线;其次,晒黑的皮肤通过与物质对象的相似性被概念化,以隐喻和概念上的方式使皮肤和自我与更广阔的世界相抗衡。

更新日期:2022-04-04
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