新书快递 | 郝田虎：《弥尔顿在中国》
郝田虎：《弥尔顿在中国》，文艺复兴论丛，杭州：浙江大学出版社，2020年。333页，68元。本书是国家社科基金一般项目“弥尔顿在中国的跨文化之旅研究”（12BWW034）结项成果，国家社科基金重大项目“弥尔顿作品集整理、翻译与研究”（19ZDA298）阶段性成果。
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书系统考察了自1832年以来英国大诗人弥尔顿在中国的接受情况，指出了弥尔顿对于中国文学、思想和文化建设的重要意义，并提供了弥尔顿研究的例证。全书除绪言、结论外，主体部分分上、下两篇。上篇“弥尔顿在中国的跨文化之旅”共四章，以扎实的文献材料为基础，揭示了“中国弥尔顿”这一文化现象的复杂成因。下篇“弥尔顿研究举隅”包括五篇特色论文，这些论文以中文或英文形式在中国、美国，以及欧洲的主要学术期刊发表时，引发了积极的反响。作为国内外有关这一论题的首部专著，本书颇具开拓性。著名弥尔顿专家John Rumrich教授和沈弘教授作序推荐。鉴定专家认为，本成果“具有开拓性意义和较高的创新性……分析深入细致到位，论证严谨，观点合理，体现出研究者对弥尔顿和中国文化文学知识的深入了解及其所具备的全面的中西文化素养。本项成果的学术价值高”，“在研究思路上具有较好的拓展，对于弥尔顿研究和西方文学的中国接受具有很好的参考价值”。
This brilliant study of John Milton by Professor Hao Tianhu begins by performing the valuable service of correcting the record concerning the introduction of the English poet’s writings to a Chinese audience. Professor Hao demonstrates that Christian missionaries first brought Milton to the attention of the Chinese as early as 1832. This initiation occurred several years before Shakespeare was introduced to China even if the Bard did become symbolic of English literary culture during the late Qing period. It is noteworthy that a similar misperception of the relative historical importance of Milton and Shakespeare has long prevailed in the United States. Only after the American Civil War, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, did Shakespeare become a more prominent and popular cultural icon in the United States. In China, not only were Milton’s works introduced and translated into Chinese prior to those of Shakespeare, but also, as Professor Hao carefully demonstrates, Milton would by the early twentieth century play a broadly influential role in the cultural development of modern China.
Having established this historical basis for his argument, Professor Hao proceeds to reveal how different interpretations of Milton have held sway in China at various points during the twentieth century, beginning with Lu Xun’s questionable rendition of Milton’s Satan as an inspirational opponent of tyranny. In the West, this interpretation of Satan is associated with English Romantic poets (especially William Blake and Percy Shelley). Although most Milton scholars have since come to think otherwise about Satan, a similar view of God’s chief adversary was later championed by the great English scholar William Empson, who spent many years teaching Milton in China during the middle of the twentieth century. Professor Hao’s informative survey of Milton’s reception history in China culminates with the work of my former student, the brilliant Shen Hong, specifically his groundbreaking contribution to Milton studies, Milton’s Satan and the English Literary Tradition (2010).
Professor Hao’s magisterial study of Milton in China ultimately places the English poet in a global context, providing a valuable cross-cultural perspective on Milton that only an internationally conversant scholar such as Professor Hao could accomplish. He not only studied abroad but completed his dissertation at Columbia University under the supervision of the celebrated early modern scholar David Kastan (2006). Since then, he has become a widely recognized scholar of early modern literary culture in his own right, well known among colleagues in Europe and North America. This excellent new book will add even more substance and luster to his reputation by offering an accurate and nuanced account of the impact and use of Milton’s works in China over nearly two centuries.
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作者简介：郝田虎，浙江大学外语学院教授、博导、中世纪与文艺复兴研究中心主任。北京大学英语系学士、硕士，哥伦比亚大学英文系博士，教育部青年长江学者（2016年度），国家社科基金重大项目“弥尔顿作品集整理、翻译与研究”首席专家。研究领域包括早期现代英国文学、比较文学、英文手稿研究等。专著《<缪斯的花园>：早期现代英国札记书研究》获第八届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（人文社会科学）二等奖。
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浙江大学外语学院中世纪与文艺复兴研究中心（Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies，简称CMRS）于2016年12月30日在杭州成立。作为国内第一家中世纪与文艺复兴研究中心，CMRS的使命是整合研究力量，推进浙江大学的中世纪与文艺复兴研究，搭建中国大陆、海峡两岸和国际学术交流平台，服务中世纪与文艺复兴研究学术共同体。著名学者沈弘教授担任中心名誉主任。CMRS目前出版三套丛书：中世纪与文艺复兴译丛、《中世纪与文艺复兴研究》丛刊和文艺复兴论丛，均由中心主任郝田虎教授主编，浙江大学出版社出版。