英国涉海文学与帝国建构的关系

The British Sea-related Literature and the Empire Building

英帝国肇始阶段,涉海文学提出"人口过剩"及如何建立"海上帝国"等主张,从理论上探索英国向外扩张的必要性和可能性。帝国上升时期,涉海文学通过鲁滨孙等殖民者的海外垦殖实践,为英国民众勾画帝国构建的基本路径。英国攫取世界霸权以后,涉海文学则为帝国价值观念和统治秩序进行合法化辩护。英国涉海文学由此实现从文化叙事向政治功能的转变,从文本和意识形态层面参与了帝国构建。

At the beginning of the British Empire, the sea-related literature relates to ＂overpopulation＂ and how to build ＂empire of the sea＂ and other advocates, which, in theory, explore the possibility and necessity of Britain to expand outside. During the rise of the Empire, the sea-related literature draws to the British population, by colonists＂ overseas resettlement such as Robinson, the basic ways to build its empire. After Britain grabbed the world hegemony, the sea-related literature is to defend the values and the legalization of the order of the empire. The British sea-related literature, therefore, realizes the transformation from the cultural narrative to the political function, which helps to build Empire from the text and the ideological point of view.