Analysis of Ideologies in the Landscapes Represented in the Literary Works of American Renaissance

这一研究的成果来自于对美国文艺复兴时期作家，特别是纳撒尼尔·霍桑作品中所描述的风景、地点或空间所代表的历史意识形态的分析，运用了从生态学到地理学和生态文学批评等各个领域的最新学术方法来研究风景或空间。这项研究显示了19世纪流行的象征或神话形象下的当代政治意识形态和对荒野、边疆、城市或乌托邦社区等地方的讨论在南北战争前美国作家的作品中得到了多么强烈的反映。

The good results of this study come from the analysis of historical ideologies represented in the landscapes, places or spaces described in the works by American Renaissance writers, especially those by Nathaniel Hawthorne, conducted by employing the recent academic approaches to landscapes or spaces in the various fields from ecology to geography and ecological literary criticism. This study shows how strongly the contemporary political ideologies beneath such symbolic or mythical images and discussions of place such as wilderness, frontier, city, or utopian communities prevailed in the nineteenth century are reflected in the works of the antebellum American writers.