英国大瘟疫时期的外来商品焦虑：《狐狸》的经济病理学

外国文学研究 ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 39-50.

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英国大瘟疫时期的外来商品焦虑：《狐狸》的经济病理学

陶久胜

发布日期:2022-05-18
作者简介:陶久胜,博士,宁波大学外国语学院教授,主要从事英国文艺复兴文学研究。
基金资助:
国家社会科学基金项目“英国16、17世纪文学中的疾病意识与国家焦虑研究”（16BWW056）

Anxiety Toward Foreign Commodities in the Plague Era: Economic Pathology in Volpone, or The Fox

Tao Jiusheng

Published:2022-05-18
About author:Tao Jiusheng, PhD in literature, is a professor at the School of Foreign Languages Ningbo University (Ningbo 315211, China). He specializes in the study of English Renaissance literature. Email: taojiush@163.com
Supported by:
“Disease Consciousness and Nation-state Anxiety in the 16th and 17th Centuries’ English Literature” (16BWW056), sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 英国16、17世纪是瘟疫频发和国际贸易额迅猛增长的时期,经济学与病理学话语互为构建,疾病被想象为一种在个人身体之间或国家政治身体之间迁移的类似外来商品的实体。从国际贸易引发财政危机的语境出发,可发现本•琼森戏剧《狐狸》使用了灵魂转世的幕间剧暗指商品流通,并借助外来药品药性与毒性共存的含混叙事呈现商品入侵身体的经济伦理意义。本剧与当时经济学文献互动,让各种进口药品与个人身体和政治身体疾病发生联系,暗示海关唯有通过有效监管商品在外港的流通才能确保王国健康,表达了英国前商业时代的外来商品焦虑。

关键词: 《狐狸》, 本•琼森, 瘟疫, 身体, 外来商品, 经济病理学

Abstract: During the 16th and 17th centuries, Britain witnessed the frequent outbreaks of plague and the rapid increase in international trade. Pathology and economics became “interconstitutive domains of discourse” in early modern England, disease was imagined as something originating externally like foreign commodities and circulating between individual bodies and the political bodies of the nation. Judging from the discourse, which claimed that financial crises were triggered by international trade, one may discover that in Volpone, or The Fox, Ben Johnson employs the interlude of Transmigration to hint at the circulation of merchandise and present the implication of the economic ethics with a murky narrative of the foreign drugs’ curing but poisoning effects on human bodies. In response to the statements on economics at that time, this play connects various imported medicines with the diseases of individual bodies and political bodies. And it implies that only by monitoring the circulation of merchandise before its entry through the harbor effectively can the custom ensure the health of the kingdom. All this shows the anxiety toward the imported merchandise in England during the pre-business era.

Key words: Volpone, or The Fox, Ben Jonson, plague, body, foreign commodity, economic pathology

陶久胜. 英国大瘟疫时期的外来商品焦虑：《狐狸》的经济病理学[J]. 外国文学研究, 2019, 41(2): 39-50.

Tao Jiusheng. Anxiety Toward Foreign Commodities in the Plague Era: Economic Pathology in Volpone, or The Fox[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(2): 39-50.

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