摘要
弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫和她的作品一直以来都倍受关注,然而长期以来评论的焦点往往局限于作品的现代主义技巧和女性主义倾向。其实,吴尔夫小说的社会政治意义同样是不可忽视的。通过对《雅各布之屋》和《达洛维夫人》中描写的公学、战争、殖民地等问题的关注,吴尔夫从另一个侧面展现了处于帝国主义晚期的大英帝国为维护其政治经济利益而做出的种种努力,也同时暴露出作为宗主国作家的她面对帝国主义的矛盾心态,由此表明了吴尔夫对于社会现实和政治问题的敏感以及她心中隐隐的不安。
Virginia Woolf’s works are usually associated with modernism and feminism; however, its socio-political aspect is often neglected. In order to show her concern for social issues, in novels Jacob’s Room and Mrs Dalloway, Woolf mainly reveals the experiences of three male characters---Jacob, Septimus and Peter. Through the analysis of imperial issues like public education, war and colony, readers can thus come to conclusion that Woolf, as the writer from the Suzerain, notices these problems but cannot find the way out, and her ambivalence also shows her uneasiness and worries.
