Inter-generic Research on Dramatic City Romance and the Early Works of Dickens

关于查尔斯·狄更斯与17世纪文艺复兴和复辟时期戏剧的关系的批判性研究还没有得到充分的进行。这项研究的起源是发现了狄更斯早期作品与17、18世纪英国戏剧之间的密切联系。通过对17世纪戏剧的主要来源进行广泛的研究，试图阐明狄更斯戏剧性的起源，这将有助于解决涉及文化和机械动力的问题，这些问题引发了18世纪早期主导文学体裁从戏剧到小说的转移。作为现代资本主义文明缩影的城市的发展与文学体裁的转换之间存在着密切的关系。一种城市化的浪漫形式是由中世纪浪漫与戏剧的联系产生的，戏剧主要是为城市观众组成的学徒;城市商人阶层随着城市的发展而迅速扩大。森林作为浪漫的中心，象征着人类的自然欲望和本能驱动力，而城市则代表着文明。人类在从森林到城市的转变中，继续建设现代文明，但同时也不可避免地将一个基本矛盾内在化。小说作为一种新的、现代的文学形式，是建立在森林与城市之间的这种基本冲突之上的。本研究超越了以往对狄更斯与戏剧关系的研究，成功地阐释了从浪漫小说到小说的转变背后的动力。为彻底改写17 - 19世纪英国文学史开辟了一个新的视角。

Critical studies on the relationship between Charles Dickens and the drama of the seventeenth-century, Renaissance and Restoration drama, has not been adequately conducted. This research has its origin in the discovery of affinities between Dickens's early works and English drama of seventeenth-and eighteenth-centuries. An attempt has been made to elucidate the origins of theatricality evident in Dickens by making extensive research on primary sources of drama of the seventeenth century, which, it is expected, will lead to the resolution of problems involving cultural and mechanical dynamism which triggered the transfer of dominant literary genre from drama to novel in the early decades of the eighteenth-century. As a result, it has been perceived that a close relationship exists between the growth of the city, an epitome of modern capitalist civilization and transformations of literary genres. An urbanized form of romance was engendered by the affiliation of medieval romance into drama intended for the city audience consisting mainly of apprentices; the urban mercantile class was rapidly expanding with the development of the city. The forest as the locus of romance symbolizes natural desires and instinctive drives of man while the city stands for civilization. Human beings, by changing their dwelling places from the forest to the city, went on to building modern civilization, but at the same time they had inevitably to internalize a fundamental contradiction. The novel as the new, modern form of literature was founded on this basic conflict between the Forest and the City. This study has succeeded in elucidating the dynamism behind the transition from the romance to the novel, stepping beyond the original research on the relationship between Dickens and drama. A perspective is opened for radically rewriting the English literary history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.