摘要
《苏菲·伯克利小姐的经历》作为一部书信体的爱尔兰哥特小说,在选材与主题上对理查逊多有借鉴,更在写作技巧上尝试创新,这一创新体现了伯克美学的影响,有效地服务了"美德有报"的小说主题。将小说的形式美学与道德主题置于18世纪爱尔兰的政治语境中进行观照,可以看出这部早期的爱尔兰哥特小说以一种吊诡的方式暴露了"新教爱国主义"的内在矛盾。
The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley, an epistolary Gothic novel, adopts various plot elements and key themes of Samuel Richardson＇s novels. Part-imitation and part- invention, its experiments with the epistolary form, however, reflect the author＇s knowledge of Edmund Burke＇s A Philosophical lnquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful and conduce to the author＇s ＂Protestant＂ exploration of the ＂virtue rewarded＂ theme. An allegorical reading of the ＂virtue rewarded＂ theme in The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley locates this early Irish Gothic novel within the context of mid-Eighteenth-century Irish politics, and reveals the paradoxical nature of its expression of Irish Protestant patriotism.
作者
龚璇
Gong Xuan(Associate Professor, School of English Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China)
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第4期3-13,共11页
Foreign Literature
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金(15YJC752008)
北京语言大学青年英才培养计划
