数学、宗教与谣言:17世纪至18世纪知识视野下的《瘟疫年志》  

Mathematics,Religion and Rumour:A Journal of the Plague Year in the Epistemic Perspective of 17th-18th Century

作　　者：王旭峰[1] Wang Xufeng

机构地区：[1]南开大学文学院

出　　处：《文学与文化》2020年第2期36-43,共8页Literature and Culture Studies

摘　　要：17世纪至18世纪英国的知识体系对于我们理解当时的文学非常重要。在《瘟疫年志》中,我们就能发现笛福所受到的17至18世纪知识视野的影响。小说对数据和列表等的重视,反映了当时强大的数学思想的力量。小说对瘟疫期间宗教和教会的叙述,则反映了一种聚焦现实的认识态度。小说中,作家还以社会分析的视野关注了瘟疫时期的"谣言"现象。The epistemic system of the 17th-18th Century in England is very important for us to understand the literature then.We can find out in A Journal of the Plague Year the influence of the17th-18th century epistemic perspective to Defoe.The importance of the data and tabulation in the novel reflected the strong power of the mathematical thought then.The narrative about religion and church during the plague in the novel embodied the cognitive attitude of focusing on reality.In this novel the author paid attention to the"rumour"phenomenon during the plague in the perspective of social analysis.

关 键 词：《瘟疫年志》 数学 宗教 谣言 

分 类 号：I561.074[文学—其他各国文学]