18世纪英国作家贺拉斯·沃波尔创作的《奥特朗托城堡》是历史上第一部哥特小说,作品对恐怖气氛的渲染以及形式上的非现实主义特征使它迥异于当时流行的现实主义小说,把作品的文本特征与文化语境联系起来进行考察,可以发现它的出现意味着18世纪中期部分英国人对启蒙理性统治的怀疑和不满。 The 18th-century English writer Horace Walpole’s Otranto Castle was the first Gothic novel in history. His work on the horrifying atmosphere and the formally non-realistic features made it quite different from the prevailing reality The fictional novel, which examines the textual features of the work in context with the cultural context, reveals that its appearance implies doubts and dissatisfaction with the enlightenment of rational rule by some British in the mid-18th century.