夏洛特·史密斯作品的庄园悲情与圈地叙事

The Elegiac Sentiment and Enclosure Narrative in Charlotte Smith's Works

圈地运动当属英国工业化进程中影响最深远的事件之一。当代圈地运动研究常从史学资料出发考证,在十七八世纪英国文学作品中起到了充实研究资源的作用。夏洛特·史密斯的浪漫主义诗歌和虚构文学创作恰如其分地展现了圈地运动下的时代心潮,小说中的主人公命运大多受到了土地改革的冲击,引发或悲或喜的故事脉络。另一方面,作者本身与当时社会经济变化交织而成的坎坷命运为文本研究提供了真实对照,使史密斯笔下的不同庄园蒙上了相近悲情。

Enclosure is acknowledged as one of the most far-reaching events during the course of the industralization in Britain.Contemporary studies on this subject are,to a large measure,relied upon the historical records,thus playing a role in supplements in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century English literature.A range of romantic poems and fictional works produced by Charlotte Smith adeptly reflects the mood under Enclosure-her protagonists mostly come under the shock brought by reforms on the land ownership,which spawns story lines ending up in happiness or tragedies.Moreover,as the author lives through hardships caused by then-drastic socio-economic changes,her works provide far more authenticity in recounting the closely felt affairs.The fact that Smith was personally a witness to Encloursure threads her writings with profoundly elegiac sentiment.