晚清通俗小说序跋的现代转型

The New Changes about Prefaces and Postscripts of Popular Novels in the Late Qing Dynasty

通俗小说发展至晚清迎来繁荣发展期,其表现之一便是大量新创序跋的出现,更加敏锐、全面地展示出晚清时代特色。晚清时期的通俗小说序跋反映出的外部世界变化呈现出由点及面、逐步深入的过程,意味着晚清文人知识体系逐渐完成新旧更迭。作者在创作序跋时继承并改造了传统政教观,使小说序跋中的政治观念表达更为灵活自主。小说序跋编创方式的转变则显示出晚清文人对通俗小说的认识渐趋成熟,主动调和其中的商业价值、思想深度和文学趣味。晚清通俗小说序跋在此基础上实现了现代化转型,成为了连接新旧文学观念的纽带。

The popular fictions ushered into prosperity in the late Qing Dynasty. One ol its performance is that a large number ol new prefaces and postscripts appeared in this period, and began to reflect the character-istics ol the late Qing Dynasty. The changes about the external world reflected in these prefaces and postscripts presented a gradual processe from point to surface, which meant that the literati’s knowledge system gradually develeped. The authors inherited and transformed the traditional view of politics and education, and made the political concepts of the prefaces and postscripts more flexible and autonomous. The change of writing style showed that literati’s understanding of popular novels gradually matured, and started to reconcile the business value, the depth of thought, and the tastes of literature. Taking the prefaces and postscripts of popular novels as the reference point, it can be more effective to describe the process of the mordernization transformation of the late Qing popular novels.