Economics and Feelings: Property and Propriety in Ann Radcliffe's the Mysteries of Udolpho

經濟與情感－安．拉茲克莉芙《尤多佛城堡的祕密》小說中的財產與舉止合宜

林松燕(Song-yen Lin)

女性化 ； 財產 ； 舉止合宜 ； 情感 ； 安．拉茲克莉芙 ； 《尤多佛城堡的祕密》 ； the feminine ； property ； propriety ； sentiments ； Ann Radcliffe ； The Mysteries of Udolpho

興大人文學報

54期（2015 / 03 / 01）

205 - 225

英文

《尤多佛城堡的祕密》小說中排除了不適當的女性（化）情感及不合宜的行為，以奠定女性經濟個體的概念。小說顯示出女性若是值得擁有財產，則須展現適當合宜的舉止及美德以配得財產，不符合理性與美德規矩者則被視為無能或乖張，必須被排除。拉茲克莉芙透過兩個角色人物再現兩種不合適的情感及其與時間的連結。女性化的、脆弱的、放縱情緒的年長男性代表一個懷舊的、停滯的過去，擁有資產的專橫寡婦彰顯現在當下對女人經濟、身體與性自主的焦慮。本文論述本小說以保守及負面的手法透過移除上述兩種不適當的情感與行為以想像未來，形塑並開展女主角愛蜜莉作為新的美德典範與道德中心。

The article contends that Emily in The Mysteries of Udolpho becomes an economic individual through the removal of certain types of inappropriate sentiments and behaviors that fail to meet the requirements of rationality and propriety. Radcliffe displays two kinds of figures to illustrate these improper sentiments-the feminized, sentimentalized, and overindulgent old man and the imperious widow who owns properties- to figure out the novel's temporal representations. Through elimination of these two kinds of feelings and sentiments, which respectively represents a nostalgic past and an economic present, the protagonist Emily epitomizes the novel's new moral center where economic stability, propriety, and paragons of virtue are united.

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