時と人：歴史ロマンス
- 言語:
- 英語
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
- 著者性:
- 著者自身による
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- スキャンのノイズは検出されていません (全文に対する自動測定で、人の目では確認していません)
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この作品を引用
- APAハリエット・マーティノー. (n.d.). The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance [時と人：歴史ロマンス]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance
- MLAハリエット・マーティノー. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance [時と人：歴史ロマンス]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
- Chicagoハリエット・マーティノー. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance [時と人：歴史ロマンス]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
収録版の書誌情報です。SigPhi はデジタル複製です。判明している刊行年・出版社・翻訳者を記載し、年が不明の場合は「n.d.」と示します。
何についての本か
ハリエット・マーティノーが一八四一年に書いた小説。トゥサン・ルヴェルチュールとハイチ革命を描く。世界の大半でなお奴隷制が合法であった時代のことだ。
背景と歴史
マーティノーは著述家であり社会学者であり、公然たる奴隷制廃止論者であった。そのために合衆国では脅迫も受けている。かつて黒人奴隷であった人物を本格的な小説の悲劇的主人公に据えることは、一八四一年にあっては文学上の決断であると同時に政治上の決断であった。この書は英国の読者に、その世界が道徳的偉大さも統治の能力もともに認めなかった一人の男に、その両方を認めよと迫る。歴史小説としては、この分野と時代の欠点をもち、主人公を理想化してもいる。だが奴隷制廃止運動の記録として、また人心を動かすために虚構がどう用いられたかの証しとして、第一級である。より広く知られた彼女の経済学・社会学の著作も本文庫にある。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
this din, from being accustomed always to hear more or less of it, the boy amused himself with chasing the fireflies, whose light began to glance around as darkness descended. His sister was poring over her work, which she was just finishing, when a gleam of greenish light made both look up. It came from a large meteor which sailed past towards the mountains, whither were tending also the huge masses of cloud which gather about the high peaks previous to the season of rain and hurricanes. There was nothing surprising in this meteor, for the sky was full of them in August nights; but it was very beautiful. The globe of green light floated on till it burst above the mountains, illuminating the lower clouds, and revealing along the slopes of the uplands the coffee-groves, waving and bowing their heads in the wandering winds of that high region. Genifrede shivered at the sight, and her brother threw himself upon her lap. Before he had asked half his questions about the lights of the sky, the short twilight was gone, and the evening star cast a faint shadow from the tufted posts of the piazza upon the white wall of the cottage. In a low tone, full of awe, Genifrede told the boy such stories as she had heard from her father of the mysteries of the heavens. He felt that she trembled as she told of the northern lights, which had been actually seen by some travelled persons now in Cap Francais. It took some time and argument to give him an idea of cold countries; but his uncle Paul, the fisherman, had seen hail on the coast, only thirty miles from hence; and this was a great step in the evidence. Denis listened with all due belief to his sister's description of those pale lights shooting up over the sky, till he cried out vehemently, "There they are! look!" Genifrede screamed, and covered her face with her hands; while the boy shouted to his father, and ran to call his mother to see the lights.…