摘要
1707年的《联合法案》宣布,英格兰、威尔士和苏格兰以“大不列颠”的名号统一到一个王国之下,这种名义上的联合仍然掩盖不住彼此之间的不和谐和分歧。作为一名苏格兰人,托比亚斯·斯摩莱特目睹了联合王国成立后英格兰和苏格兰之间频繁出现的矛盾和纠葛,尤其是1763年后他身处英格兰厌苏(格兰)症的漩涡与动荡的岁月之中。因而他一生的文学创作和政治思考都是围绕着唤醒和构建苏格兰民族认同而展开的,对故土的至情思想以及消除狭隘的英格兰中心论从未离开过他的视野。在他的临终一曲《汉弗莱·克林克历险记》里,斯摩莱特强烈的民族认同更是袒露无遗。
With the signing of Act of Union in 1707,England,Scotland and Wales were united under the name of Great Britain.This nominal union couldn't cover the dissonances and disagreements among them.As a Scottish-born Briton,Tobias Smollett had witnessed those tensions and conflicts that frequently occurred between the English and the Scots.He was deeply involved in the fighting against the popular English Scottophobia of the 1760s.As a matter of fact,both his literary creation and political thought throughout his life have been centered upon the awakening and consolidation of Scottish national identity in an attempt to revise the narrow-minded Anglocentrism.His last novel Humphry Clinker best illustrates this.
出处
《英语文学研究》
2024年第1期48-59,共12页
Journal of Literature in English