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《华盛顿广场》和《豪门春秋》分别是美国著名作家亨利·詹姆斯和伊迪丝·华顿的早期代表作。作品问世以来,学术界对这两部小说的研究大多着重于女性主义、马克思主义、自然主义等阐释。本文从新历史主义的视角,将19世纪转型期的纽约市作为文本而不是“背景”进行诠释:詹姆斯和华顿通过记述19世纪两大转型期纽约的阶级分布与城市发展之间的内在关系,巩固了当时历史语境下的主导权力话语;作家的个人意识对主流意识形态的抵牾,体现了两位作家颠覆权力话语的创作倾向;但作家的反抗最终还是受到了主导权力话语的遏制。
“Washington Square” and “giants Spring and Autumn” respectively are the early representative works of famous American writers Henry James and Edith Wharton. Since the advent of the work, most of the researches in these two novels by academics focus on the interpretations of feminism, Marxism and naturalism. From the perspective of neo-historicism, this essay interprets New York City in the nineteenth-century transition as a text rather than as a “context.” By contrasting James and Wharton’s account of the interdependence between class distribution and urban development in New York in the two transitional periods of the nineteenth century Relations, and consolidated the discourse of dominant power under the historical context of that time. The author’s personal consciousness contradicts the mainstream ideology and reflects the creative tendency of the two writers to subvert the discourse of power. However, the writers’ resistance finally came under the control of the dominant discourse .