The Revival Of History

This thesis is the first research to compare Gaoyang and Er Yue He's historical novels. The author studied their work from the perspective of novel's historical atmosphere creation, narrativety, and historical novels and culture.The first chapter initiates the discussion from the "Luo Xia" series of Er Yue He, decribes why Er Yue He selected Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong themes for his creative novels background. The author made a full survey of Gaoyang's historical novel and selected his novels which use the Qing Dynasty as background, and noticed those novels play an important role in Gao's works. Although both Gao and Er like Qing Dynasty histrory, because of the historical concept difference of the two writers, the novel's outcome is totally different. On the other hand, they personalized story characters provide a wide range of possibility for people to fully understand the Qing Dynasty history.Chapter II discussed how Gao and Er creates the historical atmosphere in their novels. Since all historical novels describe social life which is far away from our reality, plus no sound and no image records, how to construct a picture which is both real and dense is a common obstacle for all the historical novelist. The author regards character speech, space description, costumes and appearance description are the most important three elements. Er usurally creates historical atmosphere from the readers point of view, pay attention to figures political conversation, popularrity, the combination of space and the natural environment description. He draw the characters costumes in a rough outlines, so some description details are wrong. Gao is good at detailed description. His novels show a good combination of the figures speech and his personal feeling, he describes figures clothes from the identity-oriented perspective. By comparison, the author revealed the writers family backgound, knowledge, personal experiences, gender awareness, geography other factors play an important role on the novels detail description.Chapter III is committed to Er and Gao's narrative style. This chapter focused Er's relator, narration interposed,prolepsis and analepsis. His novels emphasizes and highlights the psychological description. He made a good docking between literature and the market. And contributes the retaintion of the traditional literary style. Gao's novel, is the creative conversion of the Chinese literature. His Novels argued a relator like a professor, which is the freest, most dynamic narrative element. The thesis compared narrative style to identify the contact between the literati tradition and them.Chapter IV studies the relationship of local cultures, Confucian culture and the Writers. In this chapter, it can be found that there is the inevitable contact between Er's historical novels and Shanxi culture, between Gao's historical novels and the Jiangnan culture. Gao inherited the method of"QianJia School", expanding the scope of research, expanding the impact of the Qing Dynasty Confucianism. The influence of Confucian culture on Er, is reflected in the main character. In accordance with "the Saint inside and the King outside", Er's novels delineated three marvelous emperors, and a group of intellectuals who uphold the principle of "Successful, they made all the world good. Poor, they made themselves alone good.".