明代建阳书坊主余象斗小说刊本研究评述

On the Fiction Editions Research of Yu Xiangdou who is the Most Famous Bookshop Owner in Jianyang in the Ming Dynasty

余象斗是明末建阳最富盛名的书坊主,其刻书之多,持续之久,流传之广,堪称明代书坊主之冠,其通俗小说的刊刻更是功绩突出,推动了明末通俗小说的发展。20世纪以来关于余象斗小说研究所取得的成果颇多。余象斗之所以能成为一名出色的书坊主,有客观原因,也有主观原因。余象斗所刊刻的小说刊本虽然有其不足之处,但仍然具有重要的研究价值。

Yu Xiangdou was the most famous bookshop owner of Jianyang in the Ming Dynasty, who engraved books with the largest number, the longest time and the most widespread in his era. He contributed a lot to the development of the novels in late Ming Dynasty. Since the twentieth century, the research about Yu Xiangdou＇s ficion editions was abundant, which could be divided into four aspects. There were subjective and objective reasons for the success of Yu Xiangdou. The fieions which engraved by Yu Xiangdou had some deficiencies, but the defects cannot obscured the virtues, his fictions stiu had important values.