英国文学Chapter9ppt.ppt

Chapter 9 Social Images in 19th-Century English Novels Introduction Overview Realism: Charles Dickens Lower-class life Realism: William Thackeray Upper-class life Naturalism: Thomas Hardy Lower-class life Overview The English novel flourished during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Romanticism gave way to realism. Remote and mystic atmosphere gave way to the observation of personal and social problems During the Victorian Age, the novel became the main form of literature. Charles John Huffan Dickens (1812-70) His personal experience Works in a factory as a boy Works as a clerk in a lawyer’s office Works as a reporter in Parliament Tours USA with his wife Edits periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round Manages a theatrical company Loses his love, his sister-in-law Suffers a fatal stroke His works and achievements A magazine: Sketches by Boz Oliver Twist (1837-38) Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) American Notes (1842) Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) A Christmas Carol (1843) Social criticism Dombey and Son (1846-48) David Copperfield (1849-50) Bleak House (1852-53) Hard Times (1854) Little Dorritt (1855-57) Other major works A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Great Expectations (1860-61) Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) Oliver Twist It belongs to the “Newgate” (prison) tradition with a story about the underworld of London. The Newgate were novels published from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorize the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Newgate Calendar is a biography of famous criminals published during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic effect. Twist is an orphan, then a thief and finally regains his identity of a noble. It is about his attacks on social injustices and a plea for a new order of society. David Copperfield It’s blended with imaginative power. It’s a novel about social conflict, capitalist cruelty, the kind common peop