ABSTRACT In the late eighteenth century, European novelists discovered youth. Writers like Goethe, Austen and Scott developed a new genre, the Bildungsroman, in which young, enthusiastic protagonists explore the world, develop themselves and find a place to remain. This, at least, has been a popular argument in modern criticism. Recently, however, Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse have brought it into question. Studying a number of British and American novels, they show that an alternative genre, the ‘network novel’, arose in the period, which ‘disrupted’ the image of an organic, domestic world that lay at the heart of the ‘domestic novel’ (their term for the classical Bildungsroman). Here, I propose that the ‘network novel’ and the ‘domestic novel’ can actually be seen as two distinct but interrelated aspects of the Bildungsroman. To demonstrate this, I use Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee (1812) as a case study, utilising Franco Moretti’s innovative digital technique, ‘character network analysis’, to analyse its structure.

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建立联系：网络分析，《圣经》杂志和《缺席者的世界》

摘要在十八世纪末期，欧洲小说家发现了青年。歌德，奥斯丁和斯科特等作家发展了一种新的小说类型，即《 Bildungsroman》，年轻的，热情的主角在这个世界中探索世界，发展自己并找到留下的地方。至少在现代批评中，这是一个流行的论点。然而，最近，南希·阿姆斯特朗和伦纳德·滕嫩豪斯对此提出了质疑。研究了许多英美小说之后，他们发现在这一时期出现了另一种类型的“网络小说”，这“打乱”了位于“国内小说”核心的有机家庭世界的形象。 （其术语为古典Bildungsroman）。在这里，我建议，“网络小说”和“家庭小说”实际上可以被看作是Bildungsroman的两个截然不同但相互联系的方面。