摘要
苏格兰作家约翰·高尔特的《教区纪事》用年鉴的方式,记录了巴尔惠德尔牧师所供职的苏格兰西部小镇的变迁史。小说集中展现了1760年至1810年间工业革命、美国独立战争和法国大革命给苏格兰西部小镇带来的沧桑巨变:制造业兴起、地域限制被打破;青年参战与家庭破碎;资产阶级民主意识觉醒、封建王权衰落。《教区纪事》的关注点不是个人,而是沧桑巨变中的苏格兰共同体,而牧师则成为这个苏格兰共同体的核心。牧师通过辛勤的布道,将苏格兰小镇的人心凝聚在一起,带着苏格兰乡村共同体经历以上种种历史变迁。《教区纪事》展现了文学家在历史变迁时期的“共同体冲动”,饱含着对工业革命之前的乡村共同体的怀念与想象。
John Galt's Annals of The Parish recorded the vicissitudes of a western Scottish town during the ministry of Balwhidder in the form of chronicles.It focused on the great changes in the parish from 1760 to 1810,when the Scottish town underwent trials,like the rural community being af-filiated to cities gradually when industries started to grow,the youth joining in wars against the American revolution with their families losing fathers and sons and villagers beginning to embrace the bourgeois democracy instead of the feudal autocracy,brought by the Industrial Rev-olution,the American War and the French Revolution.The focus of Annals of The Parish was not one person,but the whole Scottish community in the wake of great change.The minister be-came the center of the Scottish community.Through tireless preaching,the minister helped the townspeople unite and led the Scottish rural community to undergo all kinds of historical changes mentioned above.Annals of The Parish was a typical example of the“enthusiasm for communi-ty”,which the writers had during historical upheavals.It reflected the writer's nostalgia and i-magination for the rural communities before the Industrial Revolution.
作者
王卫新
蔡娜娜
WANG Weixin;CAI Nana(College of Foreign Languages,Shanghai University of International Business and Econom-ics,Shanghai 201620,China)
出处
《外文研究》
2020年第2期54-59,107,108,共8页
Foreign Studies
基金
国家社会科学基金重大项目“英国文学的命运共同体表征与审美研究”(19ZDA293)。
