英美文学史 第五课 课件.pptxVIP

English Literature in the 18th Centry;Introduction;2.Literary Chariacteristics of the Age the main literary steam ---realism the main characters of the works---common men concentrations---describe the daily life Literature:newspaper(newborn),books,magazines,pamphlets) An age of pose--poetry was inadequate (Addison,Steele,Swift and Fielding) Novel writing:common people instead of kings and nobles Writing device--satire(Pope,Swift and Fielding) ;3.English Literature in the Three Stages of the Enligthenment the first period(Glorious Revolution --the end of the 1730s) neo-classicism in poetry(Alexander Pope) a new pose literature appeared--essays of Addison,Steele;the first realistic fiction of Defoe and Swift(major author) b.the second period(1740s-1750s,mature) novels of Richardson,Fielding and Smollett c.the third period(the last few decades of the 18th century) new literary tendencies : sentimentalism --poetry(Edward Young and Thomas Gray) chiefly in novels(Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith) pre-romanticism--poetry(minor poets,William Blake and Robert Burns) the important dramatist--Richard Brinsley Sheridan( realistic playwright) Conlusion:literature of the 18th century--complex three general heads:the reign of neo-classicism the appearance of pre-romantic poetty the beginning of modern novels;The three stages of the enlightenment;;Neo-Classicism; Major figures of the Neo-Classical School * Alexander Pope(1688-1744) * Richard Steele and Joseph Addison * Samuel Johnson(1709-1784) * James Boswell(1740-1795) ;Neo-Classicism Major figures;Neo-Classicism Major figures;Neo-Classicism Major figures;Samuel Johnson(1709-1784) Works: The Dictionary of the English Language The dictionary brought him much fame and it became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictiona