以城市视角解读非城市文学形态的《简·爱》,不难发现作家矛盾的城市观念贯穿于整部作品。其城市观念的矛盾性主要表现在两个方面:体现在工业城市的叙事上,是滋生疾病、传播死亡的漆黑的“焦煤城”与充满活力、挽救生命的希望世界的矛盾;体现在城市的中上层女性叙事上,是作风放荡、道德败坏的贵妇名媛与洁身自好、优雅高贵的人间天使的矛盾。作家城市观念矛盾性的产生是英国早期城市化“激进式”突变特点的必然,表明作家从乡村社会向城市社会急剧转型过程中思想的困惑与挣扎,以及作家所秉持的乡村视角与作品中的城市叙事的对立与碰撞。 Interpreting “Jane Eyre” in non-urban literary form from the perspective of the city, it is not difficult to find that the conception of writer’s contradictions runs through the whole work. The ambivalence of its concept of city mainly manifests itself in two aspects: the narration in industrial cities is the contradiction between the dark “coking coal city” that breeds disease and spreading death and the hopeless world full of energy and saving lives; In the middle-upper female narrative of the city, it is the paradox of aristocratic ladies whose style is debauched and morally corrupt, and human angels who are clever and noble and graceful. The contradiction of writers’concept of city is the necessity of the sudden radical change of urbanization in England, which shows the perplexity and struggles of writers in the process of their rapid transition from rural society to urban society as well as the village perspective and works Opposition and Collision of Urban Narrative in.