笛福小说中女性僭越者的自我救赎

The Self-redemption of Female Transgressors in Defoe's Novels

较之诗歌和戏剧,现实主义小说更能充分展现18世纪英国社会复杂的现代性和处于从传统向现代转型的英国社会的社会矛盾和精神危机。笛福的小说在上述方面很具代表性。《摩尔·弗兰德斯》和《罗克萨娜》中的女性僭越者自我救赎这一主题,表现了当时的英国社会新旧价值观的碰撞,女性在此过程中经受的挣扎和转变,以及自我主体的丧失和重建。

The study of novels written in the 18th century has begun to receive an increased academic concern in the wake of the 18th century literature research. The realist novels go far beyond their contemporary neo-classical poetry and dramas in representing complexity of the transitional modern British society of the 18th century by exposing its significant social conflicts and spiritual crisis. Among the great novelists of his time, Defoe was one o（ the masters at the realistic representation of the living world. With an in-depth analysis of the self-redemption of female transgressors in his Moll Flanders and Roxana, the paper endeavors to illustrate how Defoe reflected in his works the clash between the old and new social and moral values permeating in the 18th-century British society, and women＇ s struggle for survival and their transformative social re-construction in the process.