劳伦斯·斯特恩是18世纪英国文学史上的重要作家,其代表作《多情客游记》与《项狄传》,奠定了他在英国文学史中的地位。很多人认为,斯特恩是一个“背叛”了18世纪文学的作家。18世纪后期文学,以“情感”和“想象”为主要特征,斯特恩被认为是这一时期感伤主义文学的代表。在阅读感伤小说以及阅读斯特恩的时候,笔者认为有一些地方需要引起读者的注意和思考。首先,情感的作用往往被夸大化,这是该类型小说崇尚 Lawrence Stern was an important writer in the history of English literature in the 18th century. His masterpieces, “Emotional Travels” and “Di Di Chuan”, laid him in the history of British literature. Many people think that Stern is a writer of “Betrayals” of 18th century literature. The late 18th century literature, with “emotion” and “imagination” as the main feature, Stern was considered the representative of sentimental literature of this period. When reading sentimental novels and reading Stern, I think there are some places that need to attract the reader’s attention and thinking. First of all, the role of emotion is often exaggerated, which is advocated by this type of novel