晚清青楼小说的传播与南方文化

Spreading of novels on brothels in the late Qing dynasty and the Southern culture

清代后期以大上海为轴心,江、浙繁华商埠为辐射带,形成了极具江南文化意味的以《海上花列传》为代表的青楼小说系列。清代后期小说的这种地域文化特征在中国古典小说的演进历程中是独特的,从清代后期青楼小说叙事风格的地域化与传播走向、接受群体审美心理结构的地域化;小说叙事主体的生活与社会生活的濡染;小说的文化渊源与南方文化生态及相关的人文背景等层面来阐释清代后期文坛这一奇特的文学和文化现象。

Among the Chinese classical novels, those appear in the late Qing Dynasty show the most vivid regional cultural characteristics. At that time, series of novels on Brothels, with the Sagas of Flowers on the Sea as representative, have arisen in the area centered in Shanghai and circled by the prosperous towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Such kind of regional cultural characteristic of the novels in the late Qing Dynasty is unique in the developing course of Chinese classical novels. Therefore, this paper is going to expatiate this special kind of literature and cultural phenomenon in the literary world of the late Qing Dynasty from such aspects as the regionalization and spreading tendency of the novels＇ narrative styler the regionalization of receivers＇aesthetic psychology, the narrators＇ regional cultural accumulation and the influences of social life.