《奥多芙的神秘》中的中产阶级道德趣味区隔

The Distinction of Moral Taste of the Middle Class in The Mysteries of Udolpho

十八世纪的英国哲学和文学都强调个人与社会、艺术与生活、趣味与道德的同构关系。安·拉德克利夫的小说《奥多芙的神秘》将中产阶级爱好自然的艺术趣味与贵族阶级追求奢靡、炫耀的趣味和下层阶级满足于实用、粗鄙的生活趣味区隔开来,将优雅趣味与良好道德等同起来,体现出十八世纪后期已经拥有丰厚经济资本的英国中产阶级急切扩大文化资本和社会资本、确立话语主导权的强烈诉求。

Both philosophy and literature in the eighteenth-century Britain stress the connection between art and life,individual and society,taste and morality.By separating the bourgeoisie s taste for nature and art from the aristocrats for luxury and conspicuous consumption,and the lower class rough and practical life taste,and equating good taste with high morality,Ann Radcliffe in her novel The Mysteries of Udolpho shows the bourgeoisie s strong pursuit for larger cultural capital and social capital after they have acquired abundant economical capital,and thus to establish their cultural dominance in late eighteenth-century.