维多利亚时期英国多元婚姻法律规范的冲突和博弈——以《卡斯特桥市长》中卖妻事件为视角  

Conflict and Game in the Pluralistic Matrimonial Legal Norm of Victorian England--Based on the Wife-sale Scene in The Mayor of Casterbridge

作　　者：魏军梅[1] WEI Junmei

机构地区：[1]陕西师范大学外国语学院,陕西西安710119

出　　处：《江汉大学学报（社会科学版）》2020年第5期34-43,125,共11页Journal of Jianghan University(Social Science Edition)

基　　金：国家社科基金项目“英国维多利亚时期文学作品中的法律现象研究”(15XFX004)。

摘　　要：文学作品是人们研究当时法律现象的一个有效又有趣的途径。哈代小说《卡斯特桥市长》中所描述的卖妻事件,反映出英国维多利亚时期在解除婚姻关系方面多元婚姻法律规范的冲突和博弈。民间习惯法规范对卖妻行为的认可体现出对传统合理的延续,以及对底层民众解除婚姻诉求的变通处理,国家正式法对卖妻行为的暧昧态度反映出现代化进程中的矛盾和无奈,维护神圣婚姻关系的宗教法对解除婚姻关系持基本的排拒态度和严格的限制规定。底层民众对习惯法婚姻法律规范的认同和选择不可避免地处在矛盾状态之中。社会的急剧转型加剧了多元婚姻法律规范的冲突,不同阶层人群对不同婚姻法律规范的认可和选择也体现出法律内在的阶级属性。Literary works can serve as an effective and interesting sample for people to study the legal scene at that time.The wife sale episode in Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge reflects conflicts and game of pluralistic matrimonial legal norm in the aspect of marriage dissolution in the Victorian period.The recognition of wife sale by the customary law represents the reasonable continuation of tradition as well as an expedient treatment of the lower class people’s requirement to dissolve their marriage;the ambivalent attitude of the statute law towards the sale of one’s wife reflects the contradiction and helplessness in course of modernization;and the basically excluding attitude of religious law to marriage dissolution with strict limitations and regulations aims to uphold the sanctity of matrimony.Therefore,the lower class people’s identification with and choice of the matrimonial norms of the customary law inevitably falls into a contradictory situation.The drastic social transformation has exacerbated the conflict in the pluralistic matrimonial norm,and the identification with and choice of different matrimonial legal norms by people of different social classes embodies the inherent class attribute of law.

关 键 词：维多利亚时期 卖妻行为 婚姻法律规范 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学]