Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new ...(展开全部)

Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new ...(展开全部)

Marston Anderson is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study, Andrew H. Plaks has used the conceptual tools of comparative literature to focus on the novel’s allegorical elements and narrative structure. He thereby succeeds in accounting for ...(展开全部)

浦安迪（Andrew H. Plaks），1945年出生于美国纽约，1973年获普林斯顿大学博士学位。现任普林斯顿大学东亚系和比较文学系荣休教授、以色列希伯来大学东亚系教授。浦安迪通晓十几种语言，尤其对汉语、日语、俄语、法语、希伯来语最为精通；研究领域广泛，如中国古典小说、叙事学、中国传统思想文化、中西文学文化比较等。代表作品有《〈红楼梦〉的原型和寓意》（Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber）、《中国叙事文：批评与理论文汇》（Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays）、《明代小说四大奇书》（The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel）等。

Edited by Uskali Maki