商业贸易社会的文学化建构——以笛福的“信用女士”为中心

The Literary Construction of the Commercial Trade Society:Taking Defoe s“Lady Credit”as the Center

笛福在多期《评论》文章中塑造了“信用女士”的形象,汇入了18世纪初期英国文人对金融和信用市场的大讨论。借助对“信用女士”话语的塑造,笛福剖析了信用在道德和经济两方面的内涵,指出了信用存在的风险以及在个人和国家层面的应对思路。笛福的经典创作不仅传达了在当今仍有价值的信用观念,也表明政策、观念的通俗化、文学化演绎是学者面向大众发声的一条有效路径。

In several issues of the Review,Defoe constructed the image of“Lady Credit”and integrated into the discussion of finance and credit markets in the early 18th century by British literati.By shaping the discourse of“Lady Credit”,Defoe analyzed the moral and economic connotations of credit,identified the risks of credit and the countermeasures of dealing with them at the individual and national levels.This classic creation of Defoe not only conveys the idea of credit that is still valuable today,but also reveals that the popularized and literary interpretation of policies and ideas is an effective way for scholars to speak out to the public.