굶주림의 시학: 에베네저 엘리엇의『곡물법 시편』에 나타난 사회 비평

• 영문명: The Poetics of Hunger: Social Criticism in Ebenezer Elliott’s Corn Law Rhymes
• 발행기관: 융합영어영문학회
• 저자명: 송기호(Kiho Song)
• 간행물 정보: 『융합영어영문학(구.English Reading and Teaching)』제10권 2호, 145~170쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.08.31

국문 초록

This paper investigates the political and social significance of Ebenezer Elliott’s Corn Law Rhymes, with particular emphasis on his response to the Corn Laws and the wider injustices of early nineteenth-century Britain. Through close textual analysis, it examines how Elliott’s poetry operates both as a trenchant critique of economic oppression and as a mobilizing discourse for working-class resistance. Harnessing the rhetorical power of poetry, Elliott articulates the lived experiences of the poor, especially under the burden of inflated grain prices. His work, however, resists confinement to its historical moment, continuing to resonate as a cultural and political resource for contemporary reflections on inequality, social justice, and democratic agency. Far from a relic of the past, Elliott’s poetry exemplifies literature’s enduring capacity to voice the marginalized and to envision transformative possibilities across historical and modern contexts.

목차

I. 시작하는 말

II. 엘리엇의 시대와 곡물법

III. 『곡물법 시편』에 나타난 노동자들의 삶

IV. 맺음말

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키워드

에베네저 엘리엇 『곡물법 시편』 곡물법 곡물법 시인 노동자 문학 Ebenezer Eliott Corn Law Rhymes Corn Laws Corn Law Rhymer Working-class literature