英国维多利亚时代早中期家庭意识形态探析

Approaching the Victorian Domestic Ideology

英国维多利亚时代早中期(1837—1870年)的家庭意识形态话语是规范与约束当时女性尤其是中产阶级女性行为的主导力量,亦深刻影响了这一时期乃至后世的文学作品对女性形象的再现。追本溯源,此意识形态与19世纪初英国中产阶级的形成与崛起息息相关,构建了中产阶级的"家庭理想"与中产阶级女性的"家庭天使"意象,是中产阶级对严肃道德生活追求的重要组成部分。而此意识形态与社会现实之间的矛盾日后又将为英国中产阶级女性所用,推动着她们积极改变自身命运。

Victorian domestic ideology is the omniscient ideology that regulates women, especially middle -class women＇ s behavior. And it has a profound effect upon the representation of women in the Victorian and modem literary works. Encompassing both the domestic ideal and ＂the Angel in the House＂ ideal, this ideology comes into being almost concomitantly with the formation of mid- dle - class in Victorian England and becomes part of Victorian middle - class＇ s serious pursuit of a moral life. Yet the discordance between the ideology and societal realities eventually compels Victorian middle - class women to take the initiative to make changes in the 1860s.