范尼·伯尼《伊芙琳娜》中的女性声音-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

II II Descriptive Abstract in Chinese 声音是一种策略性的声音，经历了从完全被淹没到最终敢于挑战规约，追求自我，发出 声音的过程。这种声音体现了十八世纪女性建构自我身份的努力但同时也说明了女性采 取这种妥协策略的无奈。 关键词：范尼·伯尼；《伊芙琳娜》；女性声音；策略 Engli English Abstract III III Abstract Fanny Burney (1752-1840), is one of the most important British female novelists in the eighteenth century. Dr. Johnson compares her with Samuel Richardson, and Virginia Woolf also praises her as “the mother of English fiction”. Evelina (1778) being Burney’s most famous work, this epistolary novel has been noticed for its conduct criteria and moral education to British women in the eighteenth century. With the rise of feminist criticism, some critics have analyzed its exposure of and criticism to the inequality between men and women in the patriarchal society. However, few people discuss this novel from the perspective of female voice, exploring how the female voice is suppressed by the society and what efforts women make to have their voice. “Voice” in feminism is almost identical to identity and power, and has the strong ideological sense, while in narrative theories it refers to the concrete form in the practical text, which focuses on the narrator and has little to do with narrative action, ideology, and social meaning. In her Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (1992), Susan Sniader Lanser points that “female voice is a site of ideological tension made visible in textual practices” and “in thus linking social identity and narrative form”. In the process of the eighteenth century British women’s searching for their own independence, their living conditions and development space are limited and their power of discourse is deprived. So the voice of the (female mass) “is behind the single (male) voice.” This thesis analyzes the heroine’s voice in Fanny Burney’s Evelina, and explores in what way she gains social position, happy marriage and finally achieves herself without overturning the social conventions. This thesis is divided into three chapters beside