ABSTRACT

George Canning and John Hookham Frere’s satire on German plays and their radical English readers, The Rovers; or, The Double Arrangement (1798), marked the beginning of a short period of intense engagement with German drama and philosophy in the conservative periodical press in Britain. The Rovers appeared in the Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner, a magazine written largely by Foreign Office politicians. The Anti-Jacobin’s monthly successor, the Anti-Jacobin Review, mounted a more earnest attack on German philosophy, and its contributors introduced some of the ideas of Fichte, Kant, and Herder to a conservative Anglican and Scottish Episcopalian readership. This article shows that some contributions display signs of extreme paranoia and exaggeration inspired by Jacobin-Illuminati conspiracy theories, while others demonstrate a considerable knowledge of the German books and ideas that they are attacking.

摘要

乔治·坎宁 (George Canning) 和约翰·胡克姆·弗里尔 (John Hookham Frere) 对德国戏剧及其激进的英国读者《流浪者》( The Rovers) 的讽刺；或者说，《双重安排》（1798）标志着英国保守派期刊媒体与德国戏剧和哲学短暂密切接触的开始。流浪者出现在反雅各宾运动中；或者，《每周审查员》，一本主要由外交部政界人士撰写的杂志。反雅各宾月刊的继任者，反雅各宾评论，对德国哲学发起了更认真的攻击，其撰稿人向保守的英国圣公会和苏格兰圣公会读者介绍了费希特、康德和赫尔德的一些思想。本文表明，一些贡献显示出受雅各宾-光明会阴谋论启发的极端偏执和夸张的迹象，而其他贡献则表现出对他们所攻击的德国书籍和思想的相当了解。