《续海上繁华梦》的版本研究与价值重估

A Study on the Edition and Revaluation of Continuing the Dream of Prosperity on the Sea

《续海上繁华梦》与《海上繁华梦》是近代与《海上花列传》齐名的狭邪小说。《续海上繁华梦》的初刊本和初版本在回目和正文上存在诸多差异,通过对两个版本进行研究,可以探查在从连载到结集成书的过程中,小说内容修改背后作者创作旨趣的变化和创作技巧的精进。将《海上繁华梦》及《续海上繁华梦》统摄为一个整体,可对其价值进行多维度的重估,还原“狭邪小说”概念遮蔽下它的本来面目。

Continuing the Dream of Prosperity on the Seaand A Dream of Prosperity on the Sea are narrow evil novels as famous as Biographies of Flowers on the Sea in modern times.There are many differences in retrospect and text between the first edition and the original version of Continuing the Dream of Prosperity on the Sea.Through the study of the two editions,we can explore the changes of the authors’creative purport behind the modification of the novels’content in the process of serializing to assembling into a volume.This article takes A Dream of Prosperity on the Sea and Continuing the Dream of Prosperity on the Sea as a whole to reassess its value in multiple dimensions,restoring its true colors under the cover of the concept of“narrow evil novel”.