萨拉·朱厄特的生态关怀思想解读

An Interpretation of Sarah Jewett's Ecological Concern

在美国文学史上,萨拉.朱厄特绝非仅是出色的乡土作家的代表,她还在其不少作品中涉及了20世纪五六十年代美国社会才开始关注的一些生态问题,并发出了保护的倡议,彰显出对人类前景超前的忧患意识。朱厄特的生态关怀思想表现在:保护野生动物及栖息地;保护森林资源;妥善修复和保护历史古迹等。

It is true that Sarah Jewett is one of the important local colorists in the cannon of American literature. However, some of her works dealt with the ecological concern to which American society didn＇ t pay attention until the 1960s and made the appeals for ecological protection, serving as the expression of her insight and her concern on the future of the mankind. Unfortunately, all of this was overlooked in the past study. Therefore, the paper attempts to present Jewett＇ s ecological concern in three aspects ： one is her appeal for the protection of wildlife and their habitat, another her appeal for the protection of forests, and the third her appeal for the careful renovation and preservation of historical relics.