18世纪末、19世纪初英国哥特式小说的流行是不争的事实。然而滋养这类小说崛起的社会政治情境,并非大多数西方学者所说的法国大革命,而是自乔治三世以来英国国内的各种政治危机和暴力冲突。面对国内剧烈的政治动荡,刚刚从工业革命中诞生的英国中产阶级展示了复杂的“焦虑”心态,而英国哥特式小说的流行即是作为大众阅读主体的这一社会阶层对这种“焦虑”的反映。 The popularity of British gothic novels in the late 18th and early 19th century is an indisputable fact. However, the socio-political situation that nurtures the rise of such novels is not the French Revolution that most Western scholars call but the various political crises and violent conflicts in Britain since George III. Faced with the severe political turmoil in China, the British middle class born just from the industrial revolution demonstrated a complex “anxiety” mentality. The prevalence of English Gothic novels is that of the social class as the main body of mass reading. Species “anxiety ” reflection.