美国女作家薇拉·凯瑟一直被学界视为美国现代文明进程中“精神美”的捍卫者。她的大草原系列作品,寻求“精神家园”、“歌颂农耕文明”一直是贯穿始终的共同主题。在此语境下,本文以她的自传体小说《我的安东尼亚》(My Antonia)为例,看看她在20世纪初是如何进行“家园”书写,如何捍卫“精神美”的。 American writer Willa Cather has been the academic community as the defender of the “spiritual beauty” in the process of modern American civilization. Her prairie series of works, seeking “spiritual home ”, “praising agricultural civilization ” has always been the common theme. In this context, this article uses her autobiographical novel My Antonia as an example to see how she wrote “Homestead” in the early 20th century and how to defend the “spiritual beauty ”of.