内容简介

邂逅仙灵精怪漫步童话王国品读自然文学感受博物浪漫

踏上英国经典童话仙境之旅：

邂逅水孩子、妖精信使、仙王仙后、玩具公主、水晶宫、灰姑娘、仙子教母、小红帽、树精、沙地精......它们不只是童话角色，也是维多利亚文化代言人。

从自然奇观到进化奇迹

从童话王国到科学仙境

从物种灭绝到自然复兴

回顾维多利亚时代的童话兴衰与博物思潮

《童话、博物学与维多利亚文化》是一部讨论英国维多利亚时代自然文学与科学写作的著作，讨论主题围绕该时期的自然文学、经典童话与博物学运动而展开，作者为法国图卢兹大学英语系教授劳伦斯·塔拉拉赫-维尔马斯。

妖精如缩小版的人类，它们的无力蕴含着维多利亚人对自身的怜悯。而自怜是认清事实后的情绪释放，只有这样才能慢慢接受环境在不断改变这个残酷的现实。维多利亚时代的妖精褪下了浪漫主义的浮华外衣，给“自然”的新内涵当起了代言人，借此摆脱了原本日渐式微的境地，重新焕发出生机。它们帮助科学家拓展现实的极限，打破了可能与不可能的绝对界限，让不同领域的讨论相互交融，描绘出科学中那些仅仅靠理性思维无法感知和体验的内容。它们还帮助科普作家应对水火不容的宗教和科学，实验室和大学校园里渐渐没有了灵性现象和基督教信仰的栖身之所，而科普作品也成了它们最后的避风港。

欧洲早期的妖精大多出现在推崇自然神学的故事里，它们没有固定的形象和套路，可以代表自然界的任何事物，科学家需要剥掉它们的表象才能发现背后的本质；到了后来，妖精变成了预言者，警告人们城市人口过剩可能导致人类灭亡的后果，迫使人类反思自己的所作所为，拷问自己的良知。

作者简介

[法]劳伦斯·塔拉拉赫-维尔马斯

法国图卢兹大学英语系教授，专注维多利亚时代文化史、自然文学、童话研究，出版有Fairy Tales,Natural History and Victorian Culture等著作。

译者简介：

祝锦杰

北京大学基础医学学士学位，香港浸会大学翻译学硕士学位，先后担任《环球科学》《好奇号》等期刊合作译者，翻译出版《神秘的量子生物学》《思维人类》等书。

Content introduction

Meet the fairy spirit, wander the fairy tale kingdom, read natural literature and feel the romance of natural objects

Take a journey to the classic British fairyland:

Meet Water Child, Fairy Messenger, Fairy Queen, Toy Princess, Crystal Palace, Cinderella, Fairy Godmother, Little Red Riding Hood, Tree Spirit, Sand Spirit...... They're not just fairy tale characters, they're Victorian cultural spokesmen.

From natural wonders to evolutionary wonders

From fairy kingdom to scientific wonderland

From extinction to nature's Renaissance

A review of the rise and fall of fairy tales and museum trends in the Victorian era

Fairy Tales, Natural History, and Victorian Culture is a discussion of the natural literature and scientific writing of the Victorian era in England, centered on the natural literature, classical fairy tales, and the natural history movement of the period, by Laurence Talarach-Vermas, professor of English at the University of Toulouse in France.

Goblins are like miniature human beings, and their powerlessness contains the pity of the Victorians for themselves. Self-pity is the emotional release after recognizing the fact, only in this way can slowly accept the harsh reality that the environment is constantly changing. The Victorian goblins shed the pomp of romanticism and became spokesmen for a new meaning of "nature", thereby escaping from their declining status and reinvigorating themselves. They help scientists push the limits of reality, breaking down the absolute boundaries of what is possible and impossible, allowing discussions in different fields to intermingle, and drawing out what science cannot perceive and experience through rational thought alone. They have also helped popular science writers cope with the conflict between religion and science, which has become the last refuge for spiritual phenomena and Christian faith in laboratories and college campuses.

In the early days of Europe, goblins mostly appeared in the stories advocating natural theology. They had no fixed images and routines and could represent anything in nature. Scientists needed to strip away their appearances to discover the essence behind them. Later, the goblin turned into a prophet, warning people of the consequences of urban overpopulation that could lead to the demise of mankind, forcing humans to reflect on their own actions and question their conscience.

About the author

[Fa] Laurence Tarrach-Vermas

Professor of English, University of Toulouse, France, focusing on Victorian cultural History,Natural literature, Fairy Tales research, published Fairy Tales,Natural History and Victorian Culture and other works.

About the Translator

Zhu Jinjie

He holds a Bachelor's degree in basic Medicine from Peking University and a master's degree in translation from Hong Kong Baptist University. He has worked as a co-translator for journals such as Global Science and Curiosity, and translated and published books such as Mysterious Quantum Biology and Thinking Human.