现代性的性别空间:空间视角下伍尔夫研究新著述评

A Review of Two Recent Spatial Studies on Virginia Woolf

2017和2018年,麦克米伦出版社接连推出两本从空间角度研究伍尔夫主要作品的专著:《漫步于弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的伦敦》和《弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的房间与现代性空间》。这两本专著一本从图绘伍尔夫小说人物行走的路线入手,一本从物理和比喻意义上的"房间"入手,思路不同,却在很多方面殊途同归,尤其是在探讨伍尔夫小说的空间性以及现代主义与空间的新关系方面,体现出目前伍尔夫学者对于重新考察现代性的性别空间的浓厚兴趣。

Palgrave Macmillan published respectively in 2017 and 2018 two monographs on Virginia Woolf’s major works from the perspective of spatial literary studies:Walking Virginia Woolf's London:An Investigation in Literary Geography and Virginia Woolf's Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity.Though they take different approaches-one maps Woolf’s fictional routes onto the Google map of London while the other focuses on all kinds of rooms,both physical and metaphorical,in Woolf’s works,they share a lot in common,especially in exploring the significance of spatiality in understanding Woolf’s writing and in the reassessment of the relationship between modernity and spatiality.Both exhibit the current academic interest in reconfiguring spaces of gender and modernity in Woolf studies.