走出房间的天使——伍尔芙笔下的简·奥斯丁和乔治·艾略特

《普通读者》中伍尔芙用轻松浪漫的笔调为读者呈现了一个天资聪慧、与众不同的简·奥斯丁,用写实的文字展示了一个出生卑微、柔中有韧的乔治·艾略特。前者的浪漫实际是在叙述一种理想,轻松背后更多是沉重;后者的写实则侧重表达抗争,直白之下更多是钦佩。同时伍尔芙用自己小说家兼评论家的实力,通过对两位女作家作品的细致品析让我们感受到她们即使令男人们也艳羡的成就。这一切都表达了伍尔芙作为女性同时也是女权主义评论家对父权制社会的控诉、对遭受不公的女性的同情和对理想社会的期待。

Jean Austen and George Eliot in Virginia Woolfs Narration

In the Common Reader, Virginia Woolf shows us a Jean Austen of talent and distinctiveness in carefree and romantic words;and when it comes to George Eliot, she presents a woman of humble birth hut of perseverance. The former romantic text is telling an ideal with a heavy heart; the latter realistic one shows a woman＇s struggle with an admiration. Simultaneously Virginia Woolf, through her piercing insight of a novelist and commentator, shows the enviable achieve ments obtained by the two. All in all,Virginia Woolf, the feminist, displays her protest against the patriarchal soclety,her sympathy with the oppressed women and her desire for the ideal society.