18世纪小说《帕米拉》曾在中上层社会风靡一时,作者理查逊将他个人所持的资产阶级道德观赋予了小说主人公,并称之为“美德”。但受中产阶级的局限和制约,这种美德既是中产阶级抗拒改造上层社会腐败道德的工具,又是和上层社会达成妥协得到认可从而分享社会权力的途径。本论文拟从理查德与同时期学者菲尔丁对于美德的不同理解,探讨18世纪道德建构过程以及实质意义。 Eighteenth-century novel “Pamela” was rage in the upper-middle class society, the author Richardson gave his personal bourgeois morality as the protagonist, and called “virtue.” However, due to the limitations and constraints of the middle class, this virtue is not only a tool for the middle class to resist the moral corruption in upper-class society, but also a way to recognize and thus share the power of society through compromise with the upper-class society. This thesis intends to explore the emancipation and essence of the moral construction in the 18th century from the different understandings of the German and German scholar Fielding on virtue.