作为英国文学史上最著名的哥特小说之一,安.拉德克利夫的《尤道弗的秘密》并不是一部只有娱乐和美学价值的作品。虽然故事的背景设置在遥远的16世纪的法国和意大利,但拉德克利夫却通过借古论今,在其中含蓄地流露出对18世纪英国工业社会的失望和批判,表达了渐进主义的政治主张。 As one of the most famous Gothic novels in the history of British literature, Anderson Radcliffe’s Secrets of Youdoud is not a work of entertaining or aesthetical value only. Although the background of the story was set in faraway France and Italy in the 16th century, Radcliffe implicitly expresses disappointment and criticism of British industrial society in the 18th century through the use of ancient theories, expressing gradualist politics Advocate.