金钱关系与同情之爱:《南方与北方》中的共同体想象

Cash Nexus and Sympathetic Love:Community Imagination in North and South

《南方与北方》是一部描写维多利亚时代工业社会状况的小说,展现了同情之爱在伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔共同体想象中的重要地位。19世纪的英国工业化与城市化进程加快,社会转型导致情感结构发生变迁,往昔乡村生活宁静悠闲的情愫褪去,金钱关系逐渐成为共同体成员的信仰,由此劳资矛盾日益尖锐,共同体内危机四伏。在作品语境中,盖斯凯尔意图运用同情的运行机制调和阶级矛盾,挽救共同体危机,反映出19世纪英国批判现实主义小说家们的共同体想象与尝试。

North and South is a novel that describes the conditions of industrial society in the Victorian era and demonstrates the important role of sympathetic love in Elizabeth Gaskell's community imagination.In the 19th century,Britain's industrialization and urbanization accelerated,and social transformation led to changes in the structure of feelings.The quiet and leisurely feelings of rural life in the past faded away,while cash nexus gradually became the commonsense of community members.As a result,the contradiction between labor and capital has become increasingly acute,and the community has been surrounded by crises.In the context of the work,Gaskell intends to mediate class contradictions and solve the community crisis through the function of sympathy,reflecting the community imagination and attempts of British critical realistic novelists in the 19th century.