《北极星报》与英国平民阶层文学公共领域的形成

The North Star and Formation of the Public Sphere of English Plebeian Literature

《北极星报》是19世纪30-50年代英国最主要的平民报刊,围绕它进行的阅读与传播活动促进了平民阶层文学公众的形成,以它为平台进行的文学创作促进了作者个人主体性与社会共在性的相互建构,以及社会共识的达成。而它所刊发的文学作品,不仅内容是与平民阶层利益密切关联的重大社会问题,而且引发了读者广泛参与并形成公共舆论。《北极星报》的定位与交流对话机制,使之成了平民阶层文学交往对话和形成公共舆论的主要平台。它以文学形式培养了平民阶层的参与意识、批判精神和理性辩论能力,推动了社会的制度建设和文学观念的变革,成了英国平民阶层文学公共领域形成的标志。

The North Star was once the most Plebeian newspapers in England of the 1830 s and 1850 s.The reading and communication activities around it have formed the populace literature Public,and the literature creation based on it has promotes the mutual construction of the author’s individual subjectivity and social co-existence,and reached the consensus.The literary works it publishes not only deal with important social issues closely related to the interests of Plebeians,but also arouse the readers’s broad participation and form public opinion.The positioning and communication and dialogue mechanism of the The North Star made it the main platform for the literary communication and dialogue among Plebeians and for the formation of the public opinion.it not only cultivated the consciousness of participation,the critical spirit and ability of rational debate,but also promoted the contradictions of social system and the change of literary concept,and become formation’s symbol of the public sphere of English Plebeian literature.