城市与现代生活:英国浪漫主义诗歌中的伦敦

City and Modern Life:“London” in British Romantic Poetry

长期以来,学界一直认为浪漫主义崇尚自然,这一思维定式使英国浪漫主义诗歌中的城市沦为空洞而否定性的存在,但事实上,城市是许多浪漫主义诗人重要的书写内容。从文化地理学的认知视角出发,重新阅读英国浪漫主义诗歌,剖析诗人笔下的伦敦这一城市想象和表征,揭示其现代城市的体验与书写,从而可以看到伦敦并非仅仅是自然的对立物,还是一个充满矛盾且包含丰富意蕴的立体空间,且既体现诗人对工业化所伴生的现代性症候的体察和关切,又包含其漫游视角下对现代生活本质的思考。

For a long time,the belief that Romanticism embraces nature has made the city an empty and negative existence.In fact,the city has proved to be an important object of poetic writing for many Romantic poets.This paper attempts to relocate British Romantic poetry in the context of urban human geography and analyze the London imagined and represented by Romantic poets.It argues that London is presented not as a mere contrast of nature,but a space full of contradictions and meanings,reflecting the poets’ perception of and concern with the symptoms of modernity,and their understanding of modern life from the perspective of flaneurie.