从进化心理学视角看《五镇的安娜》中的配偶选择

On Mate Selection in Anna of the Five Towns from the Perspective of Evolutionary Psychology

《五镇的安娜》系阿诺德·贝内特的"五镇"系列小说的一部。它描述了英国著名的陶瓷产地"五镇"的普通人的生活,体现了作者的进化论思想。这部小说虽然在英国文学史上占有一定地位,但是在中国对阿诺德·贝内特及其作品的研究近乎是空白。文章拟用进化心理学中女性和男性择偶倾向来研究《五镇的安娜》中主要人物的配偶选择,揭示阿诺德·贝内特的进化论世界观以及进化思想在该小说人物行为和情节安排中发挥着重要作用。

Anna of the Five Towns is one of Arnold Bennett＇s ＂Five Towns＂ fictional series.It depicts the life of the ordinary people which lived in the Potteries,representing the evolutionary thought of the author.It is an important work in English literary history.However,the study of Arnold Bennett and his works in China has still been scanty so far.This paper attempts to study the mate selection of the main figures in the novel from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology,mainly female and male preferences in the mate selection,so as to demonstrate the view of evolutionary world of Arnold Bennett and expose that the evolutionary thought exerts an intense impact on the behavior of characters and plot development in this novel.