蘭姆（Charles Lamb）的在地情感與記憶敘事

Local Attachment and the Art of Reminiscences and in Charles Lamb's Writings

黃柏源(Bo-Yuan Huang)

蘭姆 ； 《以籟雅隨筆》 ； 《以籟雅最後的隨筆》 ； 懷舊 ； 回想 ； Charles Lamb ； Essays of Elia ； Last Essays of Elia ； nostalgia ； reminiscence

逢甲人文社會學報

36期（2018 / 06 / 01）

159 - 176

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英國散文家查爾士．蘭姆（Charles Lamb）之散文集《以籟雅隨筆》（Essays of Elia, 1823）與《以籟雅最後的隨筆》（Last Essays of Elia, 1833）中，作者藉以籟雅之筆名，鍾意以日常生活為題。異於當代作家，蘭姆並不以書寫藥物所引發之幻象或想像為志；相對地，蘭姆擅長以倫敦城市的行走漫遊，藉城市演變所引發之懷舊（nostalgia），時空並置、今昔對比，並以此成就「隨筆」（familiar essays）的敘事基礎。本文欲以蘭姆與友人渥茲華斯（William Wordsworth）與曼寧（Thomas Manning）的通信，以及稍後獨立發表之隨筆〈倫敦人〉（＂The Londoner＂），檢視蘭姆對於倫敦的在地情感（local attachment）。倫敦作為蘭姆流連忘返的城市，日常生活的消費物件與行為，不僅因為時移事往，驅策個人藉書寫面對記憶，更對應著當代中產階級讀者之共同經驗。因此，包括〈南海貿易公司〉與〈舊瓷器〉等《以籟雅隨筆》系列篇章，係蘭姆在新興的大都會裡，化身為漫遊者，在時光裡一再徘徊、凝視、耽想，讓私人記憶與公眾經驗產生對話，建立其記憶敘事的美學與抒情性。

Published respectively in 1823 and 1833, Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia were written and made popular by Charles Lamb, a loveable English essay writer in the Romantic period. Under the pseudonym ＂Elia＂, Lamb wrote extensively about everyday life. Unlike his contemporary writers, Lamb did not write about imagination and hallucination under the influence of drug; instead, as he walked the streets of London, the nostalgia triggered by the passage of time served as the foundation of his reminiscence writings. The juxtaposition of time and space, in particular, formed the idiosyncrasy of narrative in his familiar essays. This article first looks into Lamb's correspondences with William Wordsworth and Thomas Manning as well as Lamb's own essay ＂The Londoner＂ to examine Lamb's ＂local attachment＂ to London. As an emerging metropolis, London was a locale that not only allowed busy commerce and socio-economic mobility to take place but also permitted Lamb's personal memories to forge a closer bond with the urban reading public. Essays such as ＂The South-Sea House＂ and ＂Old China＂ will be scrutinised to further explore how materiality and consumption in everyday life are presented, and how reminiscence and writing memories enable Lamb to negotiate a self-identity whose distinctive lyrical expression and aesthetics can be fully displayed in his highly autobiographical writings.

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