超越与局限:萨拉·奥恩·朱厄特小说《乡村医生》中的职业女性形象

On the Transcendence and Limitation of the Professional Woman in Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor

将朱厄特的小说《乡村医生》置身于其创作的历史背景,会发现故事刻画的职业女性形象兼具超越性和局限性。故事中独立、能干的女主人公在事业和婚姻的选择和思考上突破了当时主流意识形态的约束,但她只在宗教框架下而不是世俗的权利、智力平等的意义上合理化。她打破常规的思想和行为,同时又拒绝女性的传承与典范,在同时代妇女解放运动的历史背景映衬下则又显得相当局限。

If Jewett's novel A Country Doctor is contextualized in the historical background of its creation,its woman professional image reveals both transcendence and limitation.The independent and capable heroine has broken through the shackles of the mainstream ideology in her career and marriage choice but only under the religious framework,not in the sense of secular rights and intellectual equality.Her unconventional thoughts and actions with rejection of female inheritance and role models reveal her limitation in contemporary women’s emancipation.