Abstract:This essay reconsiders the notion of novelistic bildung as more than a protagonist's social maturation. Reading Frances Burney's Evelina as a developmental account of the young heroine's self-conscious faculties, it examines how novels rely on the work of conscious memory, and on temporal concepts of subjectivity, to account for human agency. Burney's novel begins with Evelina's emotional relationship to her surroundings; Volume I focuses predominantly on Evelina's aesthetic reactions to the unfamiliar environment of London, delineating a paradigm of self-consciousness as embodied awareness. However, these moments of self-consciousness, akin to feelings of shame and mortification, prove fleeting and problematic in relationship to Evelina's actions. It is only when Evelina reflects upon her experience with objects and others in time that she finally attains agency and independence of action. As Evelina's thinking becomes less reactive and automatic, she gains an ability to survive and overcome situations that pose unremitting threats to her female virtue.

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不仅仅是一种有意识的感觉：及时阅读 Evelina 的思想

摘要：本文重新考虑了小说家的概念，不仅仅是主角的社会成熟。将弗朗西斯·伯尼 (Frances Burney) 的《伊芙琳娜》(Evelina) 解读为对年轻女主人公的自我意识能力的发展描述，它考察了小说如何依靠有意识记忆的工作和主观性的时间概念来解释人类能动性。伯尼的小说从伊维琳娜与周围环境的情感关系开始；第一卷主要关注 Evelina 对伦敦陌生环境的审美反应，将自我意识的范式描绘为具身意识。然而，这些自我意识的时刻，类似于羞耻和屈辱的感觉，与 Evelina 的行为有关，证明是短暂的和有问题的。只有当 Evelina 及时反思她对物体和其他人的体验时，她才最终获得行动的能动性和独立性。随着 Evelina 的思维变得不那么被动和自动，她获得了生存和克服对她的女性美德构成持续威胁的情况的能力。