浅论维多利亚时期英国女性文学发展的难言之痛

THE NAMELESS PAIN OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE LITERATURE IN VICTORIAN ERA

长久以来文学一直被视作是男性领地和男性实现文化价值观的专制武器,女性文学在1840年前曾是一片落寞之地。从两个方面分析了维多利亚时期女性文学发展的难言之痛:大批风格各异的女性作家被缩减、归并为少数几位伟大的作家,而由此总结出女性作家的全部理论;以男性文本和男性经验为中心的文学评论界对女性文学实行双重评价标准,很难真正从理论上评价女性作家和女性文学。

For a long time literature has been dominated by men and become a dictatorial weapon to carry out their cultural values. Before 1840, female literature took on an appearance of no tradition. This paper is targeted at exploring the nameless pain of the development of female literature in Victorian Era from two aspects： first, the extraordinary range and diversity of English women novelists were reduced and condensed to a tiny band of the great female writers and all theories of female writers were derived from them ; second, male critics tended to project and expand their own culture bound stereotypes of femininity and executed double critical standards upon female writers.