Under the Tower of Babel: Word Anxiety and Moral Reconstruction of Victorian Literati

About This Novel

This book is the final result of the National Social Science Fund Youth Project "Research on Word Anxiety and Moral Reconstruction of British Literati in the Nineteenth Century". Britain in the Victorian era was undergoing a process of "modernization" and a transformation from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization. In the face of unprecedented changes, when literati were thinking about morality, they realized their differences in ideas, concepts, and words and continued to argue, resulting in a state of clamor at the ideological and discourse level. They are deeply disturbed by the harm that the disordered state of words can cause. This anxiety occurs not only when thinking and writing with words, but also when reflecting on the words themselves. This book analyzes the manifestations and causes of this "word anxiety". Through case studies of key words and representative figures, it restores the social history and intellectual history context of moral thinking. It points out that literati's attempts to reconstruct the meaning system are also a means to resist various anxieties and reconstruct morality during the transition period, and reflect on the dilemmas and solutions of ethical construction and cultural adjustment in the process of modernization.

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