| 英文摘要 |
This article examines several cross-cultural texts by the late-eighteenth century British writer Helen Maria Williams, to identify Williams’s strategies for political rhetoric in international contexts. Williams tends to use aesthetic metaphors, such as sketching or harp-playing, as a way of seizing the contingency of the moment and making possible a way of thinking about current events from the“future.”The example texts are the 1790 first volume of her Letters Written in France, where Williams engages with the arguments of Edmund Burke; her 1815 verbal“sketch”of Napoleon Bonaparte, which she says only the future can reveal; and the conclusion of her 1784 poem Peru, which celebrates“the future triumphs”of Peruvian culture in the wake of centuries of violent Spanish colonization. |
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