世纪中后期文学.ppt

Victorian Literature;Background of the Age;Literature of the Age;Major Literary Figures in This Period;Charles Dickens (1812-1870);Charles Dickens The greatest representative of English critical realism;Born in Portsmouth, England on Feb. 7, 1812 Only had a few years of private education at William Giless School, in Chatham before his father was imprisoned When he was 12,he worked in a factory putting labels on bottles of shoe polish,helping sopport his family. After his father was paroled (假释),he attended the Wellinton House Academy in North London ; Dickens lived here in 1817-1822;In 1830,he met his first love,Maria Beadnell.This courtship ended with Maria’s pareants disapproval. ;;Poet’s Corner; His work has been praised for its mastery (精通) of prose （散文）and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton . However, Henry James and Virginia Woolf criticised his work for sentimentality and implausibility （难以置信）.;;;;The Pickwick Papers(1836);Taken from the movie Oliver Twist;;A tale of two cities is one of Dickenss most important representative works． ;;A Tale of Two CitiesChapter One: The Period;《双城记》第一章 时代;;;Distinct Features of His Novels;;Thomas Hardy (1840-1928);Thomas Hardy;Thomas Hardy;Hardy’s First Wife;Second wife —Hardy’s nurse, companion and fan.;The Hardy cottage in Higher Bockhampton, Dorchester ;Hardy’s work as an architect;Hardy in Real Life;Hardy became ill with pleurisy in December 1927 and died in January 1928, having dictated his final poem to his wife on his deathbed. His funeral was on 16 January at Westminster Abbey, and it proved a controversial occasion because Hardy and his family and friends had wished for his body to be interred at Stinsford in the same grave as his first wife, Emma. However, his executor, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, insisted that he be placed in the abbeys famous Poets Corner. A compromise was reached whereby his heart was buried at Stinsford with E