19世纪英国女性小说家的阅读旨趣与书写策略

Reading Purposes and Writing Strategies of British Women Novelists in the 19;Century

19世纪英国女性小说家的阅读活动与其时的历史文化语境、创作批评语境以及自身的身份与阅历息息相关。从女性小说家的传记、日记、书信集、回忆录、小说题记以及小说文本中提供的阅读信息,可以了解女性小说家们的阅读视域、知识结构与阅读旨趣。由此切入,可以发现女性小说家们的阅读视域在一定程度上影响了她们的小说题材选择与创作旨趣,左右了小说互文性世界的构建,彰显了女性小说创作的智性力量与艺术追求。可以说,正是借助阅读,女性小说家才使其小说创作与英国文学传统根脉相连,成为英国伟大文学传统的重要组成部分。

In the 19;century, British women novelists’ readings had much to do with the historical and cultural background, the context of writing and criticism, and their personal identities and experiences at that time. The information about their readings, gleaned from their biographies, diaries, letters, memoirs, and the prefaces to and actual texts of their novels may help us learn about their reading horizons, knowledge structures, and reading purposes. From this perspective, we could find out that women novelists’ reading horizons affected, to some extent, the choice of their subjects and their writing purposes, controlled the construction of their novels’ intertextuality, and highlighted the intellectual power and artistic pursuit in women’s novel writing. Thus, it is through reading that women novelists were able to connect their novel writing with the roots of the British literary tradition and became an important component of the British literature.