摘要
《亚瑟·莫文》这部小说用哥特式的手法,对1793年的费城这座危机中的都市进行了详细的描写。它是异化的空间,是罪恶之城,也是瘟疫爆发的危险之地。肆虐费城的黄热病象征着邪恶与堕落,城市的景观呈现为迷宫般的异化空间与死亡出没的场域。《亚瑟.莫文》开创了城市哥特小说的先河。小说的哥特式特征,传达了作者布朗对困扰城市的种种弊病的批判。
Arthur Mervyn employs gothic devices to depict Philadelphia in 1793, the city in crisis. The urban space represented in the novel is troubled by alienation, crimes and plague. The yellow fever becomes the symbol of evil forces and moral corruption, tuming the city into an alienating maze in which death frequents. Arthur Mervyn initiates the tradition of urban gothic fiction. Its gothic features convey Charles Brockden Brown＇s criticism against the inherent problems of city life.
出处
《解放军外国语学院学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第3期88-92,共5页
Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages
基金
河南省2007年度社会科学规划项目(2007FWX012)
