Problems of Contemporary Marxism:A Dialogue between Dr Michael Sanders and Professor Wang Jie

迈克·桑德斯博士为英国曼彻斯特大学英美研究中心讲师,研究领域涉及维多利亚时期文学与文化、宪章文学、激进文学以及工人阶级文学和文化等,已发表著述包括《十九世纪妇女和激进文学》(2001)、《本雅明·迪斯雷利早期小说》(2004)和《宪章派诗歌:美学、政治与历史》(2007)。2008年6月18日,桑德斯博士在他的办公室接受了正在曼彻斯特大学访学的王杰和徐方赋两位教授的访谈,就英国马克思主义、马克思主义美学和文学批评、工人阶级文学的历史和现状以及当今形势下青年学生对马克思主义的态度等话题详尽地阐述了自己的见解,并介绍了其本人在宪章派诗歌和文化研究中的成果和观点。

Dr Michael Sanders is a lecturer of English & American Studies at the University of Manchester,interested in Victorian literature and culture, Chartist and radical literature,as well as working-class literature and culture. His publications include Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century (2001),The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli(2004),and The Poetry of Chartism:Aesthetics,Politics,History(2007).In this interview,Dr Sanders analyses the status quo of Marxism,Marxist aesthetics and literary criticism and the working class writing in Britain,and introduces his work in Chartist poetry and cultural studies.