赫曼·麦尔维尔小说中的城市书写

The Research of Herman Melville's Urban Writing in His Novels

城市书写是麦尔维尔文学创作的重要组成部分。麦尔维尔将美国19世纪大规模城市化进程作为其小说的时代背景,将乡村与城市、海洋与陆地并臵于作品中作为对照。其笔下的城市图景呈现出恒定的灰暗、阴冷、隔离等负面特质,反映出的是城市环境与健康人性发展之间的不协调。其城市书写的内容涉及阶级贫富分化以及个体在城市经济因素支配下的异化倾向,呈现出鲜明的现代性。

Urban writing is an essential ingredient of Herman Melville's novels.With the large-scale urbanization in the 19th century in the USA as the background,Melville tends to appose the rural vs urban areas and sea vs land as the obvious contrasts.In his novels the urban scenes are characterized with such constant and negative features as gloom,depression and isolation,which reflect the disharmony between urban environment and formal personality growth.His urban writing refers to the class differentiation in wealth and the individual alienation under the control of urban economy,which presents obvious modernism.