18世纪英国涌现出众多知名的小说家,如笛福、亨利·菲尔丁、斯威夫特、斯末莱特等。与当时社会背景紧密相关的是,他们的小说大都涉及海洋冒险、商业贸易、异国情调等描写。作家们大力渲染了对英国民众吸引力非凡的海外题材,不但有西欧殖民者们新开辟的美洲,经常光顾的南亚和中东,更有充满神秘色彩的远东世界。本文选取以笛福和斯威夫特的作品为代表的英国航海小说所呈现的远东世界,对作家们笔下所形构的远东世界及其相关原因进行探讨。 Eighteenth-century England emerged a number of well-known novelists, such as Defoe, Henry Fielding, Swift, Smit Wright and so on. Closely related to the social background of the time, most of their novels involved descriptions of ocean adventure, commerce and trade, and exoticism. The writers vigorously rendered an attractive overseas theme to the British people, not only with the newly opened Americas by the Western European colonists, the frequently visited South Asia and the Middle East, but also with the mysterious Far East. This article selects Far Eastern world represented by British navigational novels, represented by Defoe and Swift, and discusses the Far Eastern world shaped by writers and the related reasons.