Author(s)

Ruimin Xu, Yafen Huang

Corresponding Author

Ruimin Xu

ABSTRACT

New historicism is a kind of backwash of literary ontology thoughts like formalism and structuralism. It not only argues that we should put historical study into the literature research, but also points out there isn’t exist the relationship of "outlook" and "background" between literature and history, for they interact and influent each other. This paper analyzes the novel from the perspective of new historicism, reconstructs the historical context, and then points out that the novel how to reflect the historical context ---- romanticism, and how to express people’s rich inner feelings, the complex relation between man and nature, and the influence of the ideology at that time in the novel.

KEYWORDS

New historicism, historical context, romanticism, ideology