Abstract This article is an ecostylistic examination of Sub-Umbra, one of the six serialised novels in the Victorian pornographic magazine The Pearl (1879–1881). It explores the stylistic strategies utilised to depict landscapes and masculinity – stylistic choices at word- and phrase-level, collocation and compounding, semantic crescendo, humour and point of view – applying an ecostylistic approach. The investigation reveals that the unfolding of the licentious narrative develops from the description of the setting, more precisely the landscape and natural scenery, as feminised and sexualised (Kolodny. 1975. The lay of the land: Metaphor as experience and history in American life and letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). It also demonstrates that the sociological model of gentry masculinity (Connell. 2005. Masculinities. Oxford: Blackwell), characterised by landownership and domination of the physical environment, is the most appropriate to define the main character and narrator interacting with the gendered countryside setting.

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维多利亚时代风光中的性化景观和绅士气概：对《珍珠》杂志中一本色情小说的重新审视

摘要本文是对维多利亚时代色情杂志《明珠》（1879–1881年）中六本连载小说之一的Sub-Umbra的回顾性研究。它探索了一种用于描绘风景和阳刚之气的文体策略–应用一种Ecostylistic方法来进行单词和短语级别的文体选择，搭配和复合，语义渐强，幽默和观点分析。调查表明，淫秽叙事的展开是从对环境的描述发展而来的，更确切地说是对女性化和性化的风景和自然风光的描述（Kolodny。1975年。 Chapel Hill：北卡罗来纳大学出版社）。这也证明了绅士男性化的社会学模型（Connell。2005年。男性化。