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,Charles Dickens (1812-1870),2,contents,1. his life and career,2. his major works,first period,second period,third period,3.his literary creation &literary achievements,Portsmouth, Hampshire,9, Poor quarter,Family in debt,prison for debt,12, blacking Factory (鞋油作坊).,happiest time,1. his life and career,(4， Chatham),his birth place,Portsmouth, Hampshire,John Dickens (1785/6-1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863), Charles Dickenss parents.,restarted schooling,a lawyers office,15,shorthand,the British Museum Library,parliamentary reporter,writing career,1. his life and career,8/2/2019,in 1836,Sketches by Boz 博兹特写集,married,articles for humorous pictures,popular,Worked without rest,Buried at Westminster Abbey, Poets Corner,Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外传,died at 58,1. his life and career,Group portrait of Charles Dickens, his wife, Catherine (center), and her younger sister Georgina, engraved by Edward Stodart after the 1843 pencil drawing by Daniel Maclise.,Characteristics of Dickens Life,A man of action and business in the world, a student and writer of books The best shorthand reporter on the London press The best amateur actor on the stage A successful periodical editor Radical in politics and ideology Concerned about social problems Faithful to the people, pessimistic to capitalist society, the expression of the conscience of his age,2. his major works （the first period）,18361841, first period, Period of youthful optimist: fun, high spirit, naive optimism At this stage Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding. Dickens thought that the whole social question would be solved if only every employer reformed himself according to the model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels. This naive optimism is characteristic of the petty-bourgeois humanitarians of his time.,(小资产阶级人道主义),2. his major works,1) Sketches by Boz (1836) 博兹特写集, the first book 2) The Pickwick Papers (1837) 匹克威克外传 3). Oliver Twist (1837-1838) 雾都孤儿 4). Nichols Nickleby (1838-1839) 尼古拉斯尼克尔贝 5). The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841) 老古玩店 6). Barnaby Rudge (1841) 巴纳比拉奇,2. his major works （the first period）,1842-1850, The second period Period of excitement, irritation and frustration: exposing the corrupting influence of wealth and power, optimism turned into dissatisfaction and irritation Dickens s second period began from 1842, the year after his first visit to America. Before the visit, Dickens thought of the United States as a world in which there were no class divisions and human relations were humanitarian. But what impressed him most during his visit there was the rule of the dollar and the enormously corruptive influence of wealth and power. Dickens s naive optimism toward the capitalist society was profoundly shaken.,2. his major works （the second period）,8/2/2019,2. his major works,1) American Notes (1842) 美国札记 2) Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) 马丁朱述尔维特 3) A Christmas Carol(1843) 圣诞颂歌 4) The Chimes 教堂钟声 5) The Cricket on the Hearth 灶上蟋蟀,2. his major works （the second period）,6) Dombey and Son(1847-1848) 董贝父子 7) David Copperfield (1849-1850) 大卫科波菲尔, the most autobiographical, one of the greatest English novels,8/2/2019,2. his major works,2. his major works （the third period）,1850-1870，The third period, a Period of steadily intensifying pessimism, showing underlying tone of bitterness, loss of hope for English bourgeois society In his novels of this period, Dickens, consciously and subconsciously, shows himself more and more at odds with bourgeois（资产阶级的） society .,8/2/2019,2. his major works （the third period）,1) Bleak House(1852-1853) 荒凉山庄 2) Hard Times(1854) 艰难时世 3) Little Dorrit (1855-1857)小杜丽 4) A Tale of Two Cities(1859) 双城记 5) Great Expectations(1860-1861) 远大前程 6) Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) 我们的共同朋友 7) Edwin Drood (unfinished)(1869) 艾德温德鲁德之迷.,8/2/2019,3.his literary creation &literary achievements,His later works show a highly conscious modern artist. The settings are more complicated; the stories are better structured. Most novels of this period present a sharper criticism of social evils and morals of the Victorian England, for example, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations and so on. The early optimism could no more be found.,8/2/2019,3.his literary creation &literary achievements,Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. It is his serious intention to expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy(伪善） & corruptness（腐败） he saw all around him. In his works, Dickens sets a full map & a large-scale criticism of the 19th-century England, particularly London. A combination of optimism about people and realism about society is obvious in these works. His representative works in the early period include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and so on.,8/2/2019,3.his literary creation &literary achievements,Charles Dickens is a master story-teller. His language could, in a way, be compared with Shakespeares. His humor and wit seem inexhaustible. Character-portrayal is the most outstanding feature of his works. His characterizations of child (Oliver Twist, etc.), some grotesque（怪诞的） people (Fagin, etc.) & some comical people (Mr. Macabre, etc.) are superb. Dickens also empl