英国文学维多利亚时期.ppt

1、The Victorian Period（维多利亚时期 critical realism批判现实主义1836-1901） Introduction of the Victorian period Victorian poets and poetry Victorian novelists and novels,The Victorian Period,特征： Common sense and moral propriety, which were ignored by the Romanticists, again became the predominant preoccupation in

2、 literary work.常理和道德这些被浪漫主义时代遗弃多年的主题，又回到了文学主流中来。,The Victorian Period,InVictorianPeriodappearedanew literarytrend criticalrealism.批判现实主义是19世纪30年代出现在法国并很快遍及欧美的，以分析、描写、暴露和批判现实为主的资产阶级文学思潮。 Novel is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.,Victorian poets and poetry,Robert Browning （18121889）罗伯特

3、布朗宁 -English poet, was noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue.(以戏剧独白的诗歌形式著称) -Works: The Ring and the Book指环与书 My Last Duchess 我已故的公爵夫人,Victorian poets and poetry,Alfred Tennyson （18091892） 阿尔佛雷德丁尼生 - A representative poet of the Victorian Age. “桂冠诗人”（Poet Laureate） Works: In Memoriam 悼念 The id

4、ylls of the King 国王叙事诗 Ulysses 尤利西斯,Victorian poets and poetry,Matthew Arnold （18221888）马修阿诺德 - A poet and an important social critic in this age. His poetry foreshadows the “ wasteland” of the twentieth-century. 荒原意识 Works: Essays in Criticism 文学评论集 Dover Beach 多佛海滩,Victorian novelists and novels,C

5、harles Dickens （1812-1870） 狄更斯 He is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age. His works are intended to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness of the 19th-century England, particularly London. All his works are characterized by a mingling

6、 of humor and pathos.,Victorian novelists and novels,Charles Dickens （1812-1870）狄更斯 Works A Tale of Two Cities 双城记 David Copperfield 大卫科波菲尔 Dombey and Son董贝父子 Great Expectations 远大前程 Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 Hard Times 艰难时世 The Old Curiosity Shop 老古玩店 Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外传,描写的是1789年法国革命 以法国贵族的荒淫残暴、人民群众的重重

7、苦难和法国大革命的历史威力，来影射当时的英国社会现实，预示这场“可怕的大火”也将在英国重演。 双城指的就是巴黎和伦敦,Victorian novelists and novels,Thomas Hardy 哈代 1840-1928 He is a great poet and a great critical and naturalistic novelist. He also came to question and attack Victorian morals. His novels reveal a profound pessimistic sense of human subject

8、ion to fate and circumstance. Most of his novels are set in Wessex, a fictional primitive region. These works are known as “novels of character and environment.”,Victorian novelists and novels,Works Tess of the Durbervilles 德伯家的苔丝 The Return of the Native 还乡 Jude the Obscure 无名的裘德 Far from the Maddi

9、ng Crowd 远离尘嚣 The Mayor of Casterbridge 卡斯特桥市长 Dynasties 列王,苔丝是个美丽的乡村姑娘，由于家境贫穷，给与自己同姓的贵族德伯家打工。结果她被主人家的儿子亚历克德伯诱奸，并生下了一个私生子。由于这个“罪过”，苔丝很受鄙视。在巨大的压力下，再加上小孩夭折，苔丝离家来到一个牛奶场工作，遇到了牧师的儿妇安吉尔克莱尔。两人相爱并结婚。但在新婚之夜，苔丝向他坦白了自己的过去，安吉尔竟将她抛弃，独自去了巴西。生活困苦，备受侮辱的苔丝苦等安吉尔回来无果，无奈成为了亚历克的情妇。就在这时，安吉尔抱着忏悔的心情，来到苔丝身边想和她重新在一起。这时苔丝杀死了亚

10、历克。在他们逃亡的途中，苔丝被警察抓到，被判了死刑。,Victorian novelists and novels,The Bronte Sisters 勃朗特三姐妹 Charlotte 1816-1855 Jane Eyre 简爱 Emily 1718-1849 Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄 Anne 1820-1849 Agnes Grey阿格尼斯 格雷,Charlotte,Emily,Anne,Victorian novelists and novels,George Eliot 乔治艾略特1819-1880 -The pioneering woman, was the

11、first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside” .第一个“把情节都包括进去的小说家”。 -Most of her novels have two features: moral teaching and psychological realism. 精神说教和心理现实主义。,Victorian novelists and novels,George Eliot 乔治艾略特1819-1880 works The Mill on the Floss 弗洛斯河上的磨坊 Silas Marner 织工马南传 Middlemarc

12、h米德尔马契,Victorian novelists and novels,William Makepeace Thackeray 威廉麦克皮斯萨克雷 -He is one of the most important writers of the English critical realism. works -Vanity Fair 名利场,Through his Vanity Fair Thackeray sharply exposes the vices of his society: hypocrisy, money-worship, and moral degradation. 虚伪

13、，拜金主义和道德精神堕落。,Victorian novelists and novels,Robert Stevenson 罗伯特史蒂文森 He is an English novelist. works -Treasure Island 金银岛 -Kidnapped 诱拐,Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德 -He advocated the theory of “art for arts sake”. 为艺术而艺术 -Aestheticism（唯美主义） i:setisizm,works 长篇小说:The Picture of Dorian Gray 道林格雷的画像 戏剧:Lady Wi

14、ndermeres Fan温德米尔夫人的扇子 童话集:The Happy Prince and Other Tales 快乐王子童话集,Joseph Conrad 约瑟夫康拉德 -His experience as a sailor made the sea his favorite theme. -His works are concerned with the nature and effects of European imperialism, both economic and colonial. Works -Hearts of Darkness 黑暗的心灵 -Lord Jim 吉姆

15、爷,练习,In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. A. romanticism B. naturalism C. realism D. critical realism,D,练习,Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens? A. A Tale of Two Cities. B. Oliver Twist. C. Hard Times. D. Sons and Lovers.,D,练习,The Mill on the Floss was w