维多利亚惊悚小说中的秘密叙事

Secret Narration in Victorian Sensation Novel

英国维多利亚惊悚小说中充满了秘密,秘密贯穿惊悚小说始末,成为该类小说的常见叙事模式。秘密的进程决定着故事发展的节奏,形成了"舒缓闲适-紧张高潮-回归平静"的三步模式;在行文上与三章节结构形成呼应,其中包括秘密潜藏风平浪静阶段、秘密渐露追踪调查阶段以及秘密揭穿真相大白阶段,故事随着秘密的发展而推进,最终以秘密被破解而降下帷幕。另外,秘密始终与人物命运密切相关,秘密的暴露与否关系到人物的命运轨迹,最终导致邪不压正、善恶有报的大结局。从这个意义上讲,惊悚小说就是有关秘密的故事。

Sensation novel prevailed as a new genre of English literature in the mid-nineteenth century since the publication of Collins? The Woman in White. Secret in characters pervades Victorian sensation novel and the mode of secret narration centered on the crime bigamy is characteristic of sensation novel in textual construction. Based on an interior research,this paper aims to explore and illustrate the hidden narrative strategy-hidden, awareness, investigation, disclosure-in textual construction and sensational atmospheric creation.