《卡萨玛西玛公主》中伦敦空间政治的再现

The Representation of the Spatial Politics of London in The Princess Casamassima

在《卡萨玛西玛公主》中,亨利·詹姆斯以本真的叙事手法,将伦敦的城市景观、时代思潮、阶级结构、政治状况等诸多要素以全景画的方式再现给读者,把伦敦的诸多空间元素塑造成蕴含着权利、身份、性别等多维社会因素的体系。亨利·詹姆斯以自己独特的空间意识将政治元素有机地融入到小说中涉及到的监狱、街道、百货商店等具体的伦敦空间意象中:米尔班克监狱表征着规训机制,伦敦的街道再现了典型的观看政治,伦敦的百货商店彰显出新型的民主政治,小说中每个被书写的空间都再现出当时新兴的政治观念。

In The Princess Casamassima, Henry James presents the cityscape, zeitgeist, class structure and political situation to readers in a panoramic way, and depicts the spatial elements of London as the system of multidimensional social factors including rights, identity, gender and so on. Henry James integrates the political elements into prison, streets, department stores related to the novel, which are the concrete spatial images of London, with his own distinct spatial consciousness： Milbank Prison embodies discipline mechanism; the streets of London represent the typical seeing politics; the department stores of London manifest a new kind of democratic politics. Every space depicted in the novel displays the newly developing political ideas.