经济独立对女性写作的影响-解读《一间自己的房间》_英语论文

The Influence of Economic Independence on Female Writing:A Study of A Room of One’s Own

摘要

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫的作品《一间自己的房间》是女性主义和女性写作研究的重要文本。本文以这篇散文为基础，结合相关研究成果，探讨经济独立对女性写作的影响。该论文首先对《一间自己的房间》进行了简要介绍，并对吴尔夫及同时代英国女性的经济背景和生存环境加以讨论，在此基础上指出“房间”的两方面内涵——经济独立和精神独立，以及二者之间的关系。另外，本文站在男女两性角度，分别讨论两性写作的优势及障碍，以及由此反映出的经济独立与写作之间的关系。最后，本文指出吴尔夫的前瞻性，即随着女性经济地位的提高和女性写作的发展，未来女性写作将具有两个趋势——创作题材领域扩大和作家写作时应具有双性思维。

关键词:经济独立 女性写作 女性主义 吴尔夫 《一间自己的房间》

Abstract

Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own is one of the most important texts of Feminist research. Based on it, and combined with others’ research results, this paper will discuss the influence of economic independence on female writing. It gives a brief introduction to A Room of One’s Own, and reaches a discussion on the economic background and living environment of Woolf and her coetaneous British females. On this basis, this thesis points out two connotations of “room”, namely economic independence and spiritual independence. Also, relations of dependence between the two are discussed. Besides, from the perspectives of male and female, this paper respectively discusses advantages and obstacles in the writing process of both sexes, and the revealed relations between economic independence and writing. In the end, it clearly indicates Woolf’s perspectiveness, which is, with the improvement of female economic status and the development of female writing, there are two trends in future’s female writing—expansion of subject matter areas and growing bisexual thinking of writers.

Key words: economic independence, female writing, feminism, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own