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Donghee Om (Kyungpook National University)
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19세기영어권문학회 19세기 영어권 문학 19세기 영어권 문학 제19권 1호
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2015.2
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269 - 285 (17page)

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This paper argues that Armadale`s apparent affirmation of Christian doctrines through its representation of the protagonist Ozias Midwinter`s renunciation of his superstitious belief in fate reflects less an embracement of Victorian social norms than a strategic demonstration of the positive agency of superstition. The novel`s initial association of the mixed-race Midwinter`s foreign looks with his superstitious nature actually questions the supposed negativity of the connection by reinterpreting superstition as a meaningful faculty. Specifically, Armadale represents superstition as a sensitive play of imagination-”the noblest of the human faculties”-and continually validates its agency. The novel demonstrates how superstition can be productively understood as a critical component of literary imagination: Midwinter`s superstitious interpretations of the causality between the key events of the novel (most of which hit the mark) illustrate “literary” imagination that both inform the novel`s plot and anticipate the protagonist`s successful literary career. The correspondence creates a sensation that invites the readers to put their own imagination into play, thereby conducing toward drawing the readers themselves into a superstitious frame of mind. Moreover, the paper argues that such operation of Midwinter`s superstition mirrors the proceedings o Collins`s own literary imagination during the novel`s serialization in Cornhill Magazine. As the novel`s endorsement of the agency of superstition informs the writings of both its protagonist and its author, it reflects the latter`s belief in the sensation novel as an essential literary form in Victorian culture. Furthermore, it complicates the boundary between Christian and superstitious beliefs by showing how the former is pre-conditioned by the latter.

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