Performing Factuality in John Dunton's Athenian Cosmos: The Rites of Truth

Jasenowski, Jaroslaw

Performing Factuality in John Dunton's Athenian Cosmos: The Rites of Truth
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-04
  • 售價: $5,480
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 291
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031624491
  • ISBN-13: 9783031624490

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Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility. Tracing the numerous ways in which authors such as John Dunton, Charles Gildon, François Perreaud, Thomas Brown, or Joseph Addison and Richard Steele deliberately toyed with the truth effects generated by their participation in discourses such as proto-science, medicine, philosophy, law and religion, this monograph argues that truth is not a monolithic constant. Performing Factuality proposes that truth is protean, ever-emerging from a simultaneously conventionalised yet constantly mutating set of practices, something which not simply is but something which is actively done. This performative dimension finds one of its most powerful examples in the case of Dunton and his handful of collaborators working on the Athenian Mercury, which set the tone in periodical publication for decades if not centuries to come.

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從十七世紀以來，本書探討了基本的認識論轉變，並探討了真理觀念的重新概念化，並詢問了事實性以及其他具有真實性的論述如何被各種文本所利用以產生可信度。本書追蹤了約翰·鄧頓（John Dunton）、查爾斯·吉爾登（Charles Gildon）、弗朗索瓦·佩雷奧（François Perreaud）、托馬斯·布朗（Thomas Brown）或約瑟夫·阿迪森（Joseph Addison）和理查德·斯蒂爾（Richard Steele）等作者有意玩弄他們參與原始科學、醫學、哲學、法律和宗教等論述所產生的真實效果的方式，本書主張真理並非一個單一的恆定概念。《表演真實性》提出真理是多變的，不斷從一套同時被傳統化且不斷變異的實踐中浮現出來的東西，這不僅僅是一個存在的狀態，而是一個積極的行為。這種表演性的維度在鄧頓及其少數合作者在《雅典墨丘利》上的工作中找到了其中一個最有力的例子，該刊物在期刊出版界設定了數十年甚至數個世紀的基調。

作者簡介

Jaroslaw Jasenowski is an independent scholar affiliated with the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include Documentary and Mockumentary Film, Epistolary Culture, Holocaust Studies, Victorian Popular Culture and Smell Studies. Previous publications include the co-authored article "Dragging out the Truth: Restoration Periodicals and the Textual Creation of Gendered Identities" in Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 79 (2019), the co-edited Special Issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies on "Restoration Epistolarity", as well as other articles in progress.

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Jaroslaw Jasenowski是德國埃爾朗根-紐倫堡大學英美研究系的獨立學者。他的研究興趣包括紀錄片和模擬紀錄片電影、書信文化、大屠殺研究、維多利亞時期的大眾文化和嗅覺研究。他之前的出版物包括與他人合著的文章「揭露真相：復興時期期刊與性別身份的文本創造」，發表於2019年的《Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses》第79期，以及他正在進行中的其他文章，還有他共同編輯的《Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies》特刊，主題是「復興時期的書信文學」。

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