清末民初哀情小说是近代文坛的一支劲旅,它与明末清初才子佳人小说一脉相承,同时又具有新的时代特征。这类作品强调“真性情”的人生体验,往往以纯真的爱情被现实所毁灭为代价,于是作者很自然地选择“哀情”作为小说的情绪格调。在清末民初这一特定的历史时期(1906~1917),尤其 Grief novels at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China are a powerful force in the modern literary world. They are closely related to the novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and at the same time, they have new characteristics of the times. Such works emphasize the experience of “true temperaments”, often at the expense of innocent love being destroyed by reality, so the author naturally chose “grief” as the emotional style of the novel. In the specific historical period from late Qing Dynasty to early Republic (1906-1917), especially