弥尔顿三部曲的政治地理叙事

The Politics of Geo-Narratives in John Milton's Trilogy

弥尔顿的《失乐园》《复乐园》《力士参孙》包含着政治意蕴丰富的地理叙事。《失乐园》中,撒旦的北方处所传递出了弥尔顿带有种族偏见的伊斯兰想象,伊甸园里面的奇花异果以及撒旦成功地诱惑夏娃摘吃禁果,暗示了地理大发现引发的全球流通可能导致的恋物消费。参孙和大利拉代表两个民族的空间斗争实则影射了内战时期英格兰和苏格兰的地理政治。《失乐园》的黑暗和光明地理空间表征与《复乐园》的帝国政治相互呼应,表达了弥尔顿对世俗帝国的谴责和鞭挞以及对神圣帝国的向往。英格兰想象是弥尔顿三部曲诸多地理叙事的政治推动力。

John Milton's trilogy,Paradise Lost,Paradise Regained,and Samson Agonistes,reveals a variety of geo-narratives.In Paradise Lost,Satan's north-location implies Milton's racial prejudice in the imagining of the Islam;Satan's successfully seducing Eve to eat the forbidden fruit,related to the countless exotic plants,herbs and fruits in Eden,reflects a kind of fetishism caused by the global traffic at the Great Age of Discovery.The racial and spatial struggle between Samson and Dalila allegorizes the political geography between England and Scotland during the English Civil War.The dark and bright landscapes in Paradise Lost is coherent with the politics of empire in Paradise Regained.Milton's imagination of England serves as the political motive for the geo-narratives in the trilogy.