当今,每个读者都理解文化史这一术语的意义,并能说出它的涵义。文化的概念不仅由于历史学相同类型的学科——社会学、人类学而风行一时,而且文学家们也运用这个术语以及它所包含的概念来解释近代文学及其趋势。“我们的文化”是一个需要认真加以考虑的实体。但是四十年前,即三十年代中期,在专业领域之外,人们对文化史的含义所知甚少或一无所 Nowadays, every reader understands the meaning of the term culture history and can say its meaning. The notion of culture prevailed not only because of the same type of discipline as historiography-sociology, anthropology, but also by the use of the term and the concepts it contains to explain modern literature and its trends. “Our culture” is an entity that needs serious consideration. But forty years ago, in the mid-1930s, little or nothing was known about the meaning of cultural history outside of the professional field