Chapters-15-16--英国文学简史(English-Literature).pptVIP

KeyPointsinChapter15ThomasHardyIntroductionTessoftheD’UrbervillesJudetheObscureGeorgeGissingGeorgeMooreOscarWildeRobertLouisStevenson

ThomasHardy

(1840-1928)

IntroductionIHewasasonofabuilderandbecameabuilderhimselfandoneofthethreemostpreeminentVictorianwriters.InHardy’stimescienceandindustrializationwenthandinhandandinfullswing,thenationwasheadingtothephaseofaggressiveandbarbariccapitalism,andmillionsofpeoplefoundthemselvesstrugglingformereexistence.Themoodoffrustration,despair,andpessimismhangedoverthenation,andtheageofEmileZola’snaturalismhadarrived.

ThomasHardy

IntroductionIIHardyisaprolificwriter.Hissix“Wessexnovels”includeUndertheGreenwoodTree,FarfromtheMaddingCrowd,TheReturnoftheNative,TheMayorofCasterbridge,TessofD’Urbervilles,andJudetheObscure.Theyarealltragediesofakind.HisfamousverseworksincludePoemsofPastandPresent,andtheepicdramaTheDynasts.

ThomasHardy

JudetheObscureItwasHardy’slastbuthasbeenseenbymanyashisbestnovel.JudeFawleytheWessexvillagerisastonemasonwithaspirationsforChristminister(Hardy’scoinednameforOxford)religiousscholarship.Hisfamilyhasbeenunderacursethatnomarriagecanendhappily.Majorcharacters:Jude,Arabella,SueBridehead,Phillotson,FatherTime

RobertLouisStevenson

(1840-1928)

IntroductionStevensonwentagainsttheVictorian“grain.”Hewroteromances.Famousworks:TreasureIsland,TheStrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.Hyde.ThelateVictorianperiodwasbesetwithamultitudeofproblems,andthecommonrunofmankindsufferedpovertyandindignity.Stevenson’sTreasureIslandcameatatimewhenthehopelessweredaydreamingforcomfortandreliefofsomekind.

KeyPointsinChapter16VictorianpoetryAlfredLordTennysonRobertBrowningMathewArnold

AlfredLordTennyson

(1809-1892)

IntroductionIHebecamethepoetlaureateafterthedeathofW