功利道德和情感道德的劝善——18世纪英国感伤主义小说的文学伦理学批评

Persuasion of Goodness by Utilitarian Moral and Emotional Moral——Ethical Literary Criticism on the 18th Century Sentimental Novels in England

在18世纪经济迅猛发展的英国,对物质的过度追求影响到社会伦理道德体系的构建,感伤主义思潮随之出现。感伤主义文学注重人物内心情感的刻画,作家理查生和斯特恩深受当时诸多哲学家、伦理学家道德伦理观念的影响,在其代表作中或树立伦理道德典范,或剖析传递伦理道德观,劝善读者,成就了现代小说的经典之作。

Sentimental trend developed in England in the 18 th century, when economy developed quickly, and too much emphasis on material had a great impact on the building of social ethical moral system. Sentimental literature stresses the depiction of characters＇ inner feelings. The writers, Richardson and Sterne, greatly influenced by many philosophers and ethicists of that time, set up ethical moral models and dissected and transmitted ethical moral values in their works, promoting the readers to do good. Thus came the classics of modern novels.