Birth-of-the-British-Novel英国文学的诞生.docxVIP

Birth of the British Novel It’s 1749, London is in the grip of an addiction——gin. It’s dirt cheap, and it’s turning the capital into a nest of vice and destruction. 伦敦陷入了?杜松子酒的毒瘾. 它超级便宜，它使伦敦陷入了罪恶和毁灭的巢穴 Out of this chaos, the legendary Bow Street Runners, Britain’s first professional police force, were born.One of the most significant social reforms in British history, was only part of the radical reforming agenda of its founder. 为了走出混乱，传奇的弓街奔跑者，英国第一支专业警察部队诞生了英国历史上最重要的社会改革之一，只是其创始人激进改革议程的一部分 Henry Fielding, a magistrate地方法官. At the same time, Fielding was doing something else, which would have huge social consequences.这将产生巨大的社会后果He published a novel. 地方法官 The History of Tom Jones a Foundling is one of the greatest novels of all time. Behind the comic story of its hero is a blistering critique of British society.在主人公的喜剧故事背后，是对英国社会的猛烈批判A moral call to arms.这是一场道义上的战斗 Henry Fielding was a genius. The novel was a new emergent art form.新兴艺术形式Fielding saw in the novel the potential to challenge and renovate everything that was wrong with society.菲尔丁在小说中看到了挑战和革新社会上所有问题的潜力And all under the guise of entertainment.一切都以娱乐为幌子While fiction today may seem a rather cosy business,虽然今天的小说似乎是一种相当惬意的行当，back then it was a dangerous and subversive enterprise颠覆性的事业. Fielding was one of a handful of trail blazers.是为数不多的开拓者之一Using the novel to challenge the norms of British society英国社会的规范. 颠覆性的事业 英国社会的规范 In just 80 years, writers including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne and Fanny Burney would lay down the basic templates for the novel.为小说打下基础模板establishing all the literary genres we recognize today, from Horror and chick-lit to the political thriller.从恐怖和小鸡文学到政治惊悚片 These early novels remain the bedrock of British fiction英国小说的基石, unsurpassed in brilliance and ambition.无与伦比的才华和野心 英国小说的基石 I want to uncover the dynamic and radical personalities of their authors.揭示他们的作者的动态和激进的个性And the places that inspired them, to find out why they still exert the power and influence they do.找出为什