Thomas Hardy (1840－1928)英国文学 演示教学.ppt

Thomas Hardy (1840－1928) I HARDY’S LIFE 1840 born in Dorset, son of a master builder (contractor). Mother’s family long established, literary interest. 1856 left school and was apprenticed to a local architect. 1862 went to London to work. attended night classes and wrote poetry. Concerts and museums. 1867 returned to Dorset to work for the architect-teacher. 1874 married Emma Lavinia Gifford, the local chruch organist. 1883-1885 he built his own home: Max Gate 1895 the last Wessex novel Jude the Obscure published. (14 Wessex novels 1871-1895) Attacks on Hardy. 1898 gave up writing novels and turned to poetry. 1912 the first Mrs. Hardy died and 1914 Married Florence Emily Dugdale 1928 Hardy’s death. I Hardy’s Life II WESSEX COUNTRY Dorset provides the setting for most of Hardy’s novels and stories. Hardy, however, changed the name of Dorset to “Wessex”, which was the name of ancient kingdom of the West Saxons (6th－10th century) Thomas Hardy first used the term Wessex in his 1874 novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. He systematically changed place names and topography to conform consistently with the fictitious Wessex he had formulated. II HARDY’S WORKS Hardy himself divided his novels and short stories into three series: Novels of Character and Environment Romances and Fantasies Novels of Ingenuity Novels of Character and Environment－containing the most significant of his works Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) The Return of the Native ( 1878) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) Life’s Little Ironies (1894) Jude the Obscure (1896) Romances and Fantasies A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) The Trumpet Major (1880) Two on a Tower (1882) A Group of Noble Dames (1891) The Well-Beloved (1892-97) Novels of Ingenuity Desperate Remedies (1871) The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) A Laodicean (1881) A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales (1913) (A collection of short stories and