英美文学18世纪.pptVIP

The Eighteenth Century English Novel Why it developed rapidly? By this time the novel began to be viewed as a form of art, to be evaluated critically in terms of the history of literature. The invention of printing created a new market of comparatively cheap entertainment and knowledge. CONTENT Sentimental Novel Realistic Novel Gothic Novel ---Three Genres Daniel Defoe 丹尼尔·笛福 Samuel Richard 塞缪尔· 理查森 Jonathan Swift 乔纳森· 斯威夫特 Henry Fielding 亨利·菲尔丁 Realistic Novel Daniel Defoe 丹尼尔·笛福 (1659/1660 - 1731) Representative of English realistic novel One of the greatest journalists The father of journalism Born in London, a butcher’ s family. Occupation: writer Journalist novelist pamphleteer Genres(流派)：Adventure Works Captain Singleton 《辛格尔顿船长》(1720) Moll Flanders 《摩尔·弗兰德斯》 (1722) A Journal of the Plague Year《大疫年日记》(1722) Roxana 《罗克萨拉》(1724) … Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is Defoe’s masterpiece, which marks the birth of English realistic novel. The book is commonly known as Robinson Crusoe. A fictional（虚构的） tale of a shipwrecked sailor, it was based on the adventures of a seaman, Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned（被放逐到孤岛的人）on one of the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile（智利）. This novel is often considered to be the first English novel. The Features of this Novels The central idea of his novels is that man is good and noble by nature but may succumb to an evil social environment. The writer wants to make it clear that society is the source of various crimes and vices. Robinson Friday Jonathan Swift 乔纳森·斯威夫特 (1667 - 1745) He is a great novelist and a master satirist in the 18th century. He was born in a poor family in Dublin, Ireland. He is an Anglo-Irish satirist((讽刺家), essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs辉格党, then for the Tories保守党) , poet and cleric（牧 师）. Because of a brain di