世纪中后期文学.pptVIP

Background of the Age Development of Capitalist Industry and Its Repercussions The Victorian Age was a period of rapid growth, development, and reform. England became a typical capitalist country and the struggle between the workers and capitalists became the fundamental contradiction in English social life. In 1836 arose the working-class movement known as Chartism.” Literature of the Age The Victorian Age(1832-1902) is one of the greatest and most creative periods in the history of English literature, standing only next to the Elizabethan Age and the Age of Romanticism. The age produced such great novelists as Dickens, and Thackeray, such great poets as Tennyson, and Browning, and such great essayists as Carlyle and Ruskin. The age was largely an age of prose, especially the novel as well as literary and social criticism. Major Literary Figures in This Period A. Novel of Critical Realism: Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities William Thackeray: Vanity Fair Gorge Eliot: Adam Bede Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights B. Victorian Poetry: Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrel Browning: The Cry of the Children, Sonnets from the Portuguese C: The Aestheticism “art for art’s sake” Oscar Wilde Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens The greatest representative of English critical realism Major Works 1836 “Sketches by Boz” ?博兹特写集? 1836-37 “The Pickwick Papers” ?匹克威克外? 1837-38 “Oliver Twist” 《雾都孤儿》 1838-39 “Nicholas Nickleby” ?尼古拉斯·尼克尔贝? 1840-41 “The Old Curiosity Shop” ?老古玩店? 1841 “Barnaby Rudge”?巴纳比·拉奇? Major Works B. 1842 “American Notes” ?美国札记? 1843-45 “Martin Chuzzlewit” ?马丁·朱述尔维特? 1843 “A Christmas Carol” 《圣诞颂歌》 1844 “ The Chimes” 《教堂钟声》 1845 “The Cricket on the Hearth” 《灶上蟋蟀》 1846-48 “Dombey and son” 《董贝父子》 1849-50 “David Copperfield 《大卫·科波