Charles Dickens英美文学 狄更斯.ppt

CharlesDickens英美文学狄更斯概要1

Charles Dickens The greatest representative of English critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age Life Works Literary Characteristics Writing style Writing feature Writing theme Language Literary achievements Influence Analysis of Dickens Evacuation Life 狄更斯1812年出生于英国朴次茅斯(Portsmouth),是海军职员约翰·狄更斯和查尔斯·狄更斯伊丽莎白·巴洛所生的第二个孩子。狄更斯5岁时全家就迁居占松(Chatham),10岁时又搬到康登镇(Camden Town,今属伦敦)。 狄更斯早年家境小康,小时候曾经在一所私立学校接受过一段时间的教育,但是父母经常大宴宾客,金钱上没有节制,12岁时,狄更斯的父亲就因债务问题而入狱,一家人随著父亲迁至牢房居住,狄更斯也因此被送到伦敦一家鞋油场当学徒,每天工作10个小时。或许是由于这段经历,备尝艰辛、屈辱,看尽人情冷暖,使得狄更斯的作品底层社会劳动人民的生活状态。小说《大卫·科波菲尔》中,就是描写了自己这一段遭遇。 不过由于父亲继承了一笔遗产而令家庭经济状况有所好转,狄更斯也才有机会重新回到学校。15岁时他从威灵顿学院毕业,随后进入一家律师行工作,后来又转入报馆,20岁时成为一名新闻记者。狄更斯并没有接受很多的正规教育,基本上是靠自学成材。 狄更斯后来成为一名《晨报》的国会记者,专门查尔斯·狄更斯 采访英国下议院的政策辩论,也时常环游英伦采访各种选举活动。他开始在各刊物上发表文章,并最终收集成《博兹札记》(Sketches by Boz)出版,这是他的第一部散文集。 On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full days work on Edwin Drood«艾德温·德鲁德之迷». He never regained consciousness, and the next day, on 9 June, he died at Gads Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner, he was laid to rest in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. 他的墓碑上如此写道:“他是贫穷、受苦与被压迫人民的同情者;他的去世令世界失去了一位伟大的英国作家。”(He was a sympathiser to the poor , the suffering ,and the oppressed; and by his death , one of Englands greatest writers is lost to the world.)。 death 1836—1841, 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. works 1) Sketches by Boz (1836) «博兹特写集» 2) T

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