文档介绍：学校代码：10200 研究生学号：10200201020977
分 类 号：H31 密 级：无
硕士学位论文
The Historical Writing in Sarah Waters’ Novels
萨拉・沃特斯小说中的历史书写
作者：陈佳
指导教师：刘国清
学科专业：英语语言文学
研究方向：英国当代文学
学位类型：学历硕士
东北师范大学学位评定委员会
2013 年 5 月
Abstract
Sarah Waters is a writer of high-profile in the literary world of contemporary
Britain. So far, she has written five novels, which have obtained a number of literature
awards and the widespread attentions and high praise from the European and
American academia and critics. Her novels have multiple genres, rich content and
unique perspectives. Her style of writing is delicate and fluid, which shows the real
historical features of British society in different periods by the ethereal atmosphere.
New historicism is an ideological trend of society and culture, which gives a
reinterpretation and political interpretation to the historical texts. Under its influence,
this thesis is based on the previous studies, analyzes the value concepts and the
narrative characteristics of Waters’ novels from the perspective of new historicism
and summarizes the real writing of her novels in different periods of history.
This thesis is altogether divided into four parts: The introduction part mainly
introduces Sarah Waters' personal experience and the domestic and foreign literary
reviews of her works. The first chapter introduces the theory of new historicism and
the new historical spirit of Water