Unreal City: Reflections on London and the Novel in the Twentieth Century
Unreal City: Reflections on London and the Novel in the Twentieth Century
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虚幻的城市：对伦敦和二十世纪小说的反思
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10.1093/hwj/56.1.1
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2003
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J. White
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J. White
伦敦的庞大和复杂使它从字面上看是“不可知的”。要想弄清楚伦敦对市民生活的影响，以及伦敦人如何塑造他们所居住的城市，地理学家的科学和历史学家的艺术都难以奏效。但也许正是在伦敦的小说中，城市和伦敦人才最有活力。在这个有着悠久传统但又对时尚的每一个细节都充满活力的地方，由这个巨大的人群聚集所产生的力量，可以通过小说家的经验和想象来塑造人物。世纪的伦敦小说在范围、多样性和勇气上都超过了这一伟大的传统是从19世纪30年代开始建立起来的。这条既深又宽的富矿带在这里通过小说来庆祝，小说探讨了抵达伦敦的兴奋和紧张;伦敦的酒吧和伦敦的妓女的豪饮承诺;也是历史与伦敦人对峙并塑造其命运的时刻。正是在这些文本中，我们感受到了作为一个伦敦人意味着什么。来自出版商网站的描述：http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/1/1
The immensity and complexity of London have rendered it literally ‘unknowable’. Teasing out what impact the city has had on the lives of its citizens, and how its people have shaped and moulded the city they live in, has proved resistant alike to the geographer's science and the historian's art. But it is perhaps in London's fictions that city and people come most alive. Here the forces generated by this giant aggregation of people, in a place with long traditions yet nervously alive to every tic of fashion, can be worked through in characters drawn from the novelist's experience and imagination. The London novel in the twentieth century exceeded in scope, diversity and courage (if not in grandeur and genius) the great tradition established from the 1830s on. This rich seam, both deep and wide, is celebrated here through fictions that explore the excitement and strain of arriving in London; the boozy promises of London's pubs and London's prostitutes; and that point where history confronts the Londoner and shapes her destiny. It is in these texts that we feel what it means to be a Londoner. Description from the publisher's website: http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/1/1