《虹》的景观与维多利亚时代的发展

Landscapes of Victorian Era in The Rainbow

《虹》的景观叙述揭示维多利亚时期的工业化进程、商业资本主义扩张和世界主义的形成。《虹》书写乡村中存在一种逐渐增强的经济文化意向,城市中有逐渐增强的空间功能规划意识,从多个维度表明发展的运行轨迹怎样从无所不在的自然过程逐渐转变为一系列的意图刻意干预的进步。《虹》同时书写了社会关系的重新区隔,小说角色们产生逐渐增强的不确定的和疏离的身份感。工业、商业和科技的社会发展史与三代人的个人发展史相互渗透,相互矛盾,成为推动《虹》的情节发展的双重叙事动力链。

Landscapes narrated in The Rainbow is the metonymy for the developing process of industrialization,expanding commercial capitalism and cosmopolitanism in Victorian Era.The Rainbow describes the enhanced consciousness in economy growth and spatial planning,indicating the trajectory of development from ubiquitous natural growth to the progress intervened by series of purposeful plans.Besides,The Rainbow reflects redivision of social relations,through the representation of developing and alienation in the self-perceived identity of characters.The social development penetrates into and conflicts with the individual growth,constructing the double dynamics for the chain of plots.