《威克菲尔德牧师传》中查尔斯·普里姆罗斯博士的伦理解读  

An Ethical Reading of Dr.Charles Primrose in The Vicar of Wakefield

作　　者：桑德罗·荣格 Sandro Jung(Fudan University)

机构地区：[1]复旦大学

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2023年第6期48-64,共17页Foreign Literature Studies

摘　　要：本文试图纠正将奥利弗·哥德史密斯针对查尔斯·普里姆罗斯博士的描述视为讽刺或戏仿牧师唯物主义的解读。相反,通过从牧师在《威克菲尔德牧师传》(1766)中显露并表现出的伦理身份来解读他性格中的矛盾。牧师的道德困境与其缺乏经验有关,根源在于他无法有效地维护自己的家长权威。一旦叙述者揭示了怪异的伯切尔先生的真实身份是威廉·桑希尔爵士,并在小说结尾将他推介为救世之神,准男爵就被提升为牧师伦理身份的逆反模式:他将为了自己的公共和私人形象,设定唯一的伦理标准,进而掌控困扰普里姆罗斯博士的伦理混乱。This article offers a corrective to interpretations that have focused on Oliver Goldsmith's characterization of Dr. Charles Primrose as ironic or as a parody of clerical materialism. Instead, it investigates the contradictions in the clergyman's character by reading them in terms of the ethical identity he manifests and performs in The Vicar of Wakefield(1766). The vicar's ethical dilemma is related to his lack of experience, and it is rooted in his inability to assert his authority effectively as pater familias. Once the narrator reveals the idiosyncratic Mr. Burchell's true identity as Sir William Thornhill and introduces him as deus ex machina at the end of the novel, the baronet is advanced as a counter-model to the vicar's ethical identity: he will be shown to have mastered the ethical chaos that enveloped Dr. Primrose by having reached a single ethical standard, both for his public and private personae.

关 键 词：哥德史密斯 《威克菲尔德牧师传》 普里姆罗斯博士 伦理阅读 伦理认同 

分 类 号：I561.074[文学—其他各国文学]