回归自然的人性呼唤——从《佛洛斯河磨坊》看乔治·艾略特自然观

Humanity and Nature—George Eliot's View of Nature in The Mill on the Floss

乔治·艾略特的《佛洛斯河磨坊》是英国批评现实主义的经典之作。历来批评家们多从宗教、道德、心理或者女性主义的角度来解读它。对于作品中所包含的丰富自然、环境以及其与角色之间的关系描写多有忽略。该文试图从生态批评的视角,通过分析《佛洛斯河磨坊》中关于佛洛斯河及红洼地的荒野、铎尔蔻特磨坊、大洪水的描写,来发掘乔治·艾略特的自然观,即:在工业革命的大潮中寻找一条回归自然的出路。

George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is among the greatest critical realism works in English literature. Research of most critics about her is concerned with religion, morality, psychology or feminism etc. While Eliot's description of nature scene as well as the relation ship between characters and environment are almost neglected by scholars. To seek a way to return pastoral life in the industrialized world as her view of nature will be discussed in this paper by analyzing the wilderness of Floss and the Red Deeps, Dorlcote Mill and the big flood.