englishliteratureofthevictorianage维多利亚时期的英国文学

englishliteratureofthevictorianage维多利亚时期的英国文学内容摘要：

snobbish, caustic, selfish and simpleminded Joseph Sedley: vain, selfish, effeminate William Dobbin: goodnatured, honest III. Comparison between Thackeray and Dickens similarities: ① both representatives of critical realism。 ② both novelists, humorists。 ③ both criticized the Victorian society satirically. 2. differences: ① D described the mon people, T mainly described the lives of aristocrats and rich people. ② D was a sentimentalist. T was a cynic who doubted the goodness of human nature as a spectator. ③ D advocated social reforms, T was not a crusader for good causes. ④ D was a romanticist, T was against all romantic conventions. Gee eliot I. life 1. Gee Eliot (18191880), pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, was born on Nov. 22, 1819 into an estate agent’ s family in Warwickshire, England. 2. Though brought up under strict religious influences, she early abandoned religious beliefs, adopted agnostic opinions about Christian doctrine, amp。 showed a great interest in social amp。 philosophical problems. 3. At the age of 39, she started he literary career. Being a woman of intelligence amp。 versatility, she quickly found herself ranking high among the great writers. 4. In 1857, she wrote her first three stories which were later published in book form under the title of Scenes of Clerical Life. II. Literary Career 1. her three most popular novels came successively, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860) amp。 Silas Marner (1861), all drawn from her lifelong knowledge of English country life amp。 notable for their realistic details, pungent characterization amp。 high moral tone. 2. 1863, Romola, a full elaborately documented story of Florence in the time of Savornarola. 3. Felix Holt, the Radical, her only novel on English politics. 4. 1872, Middlemarch, a panoramic book, Gee Eliot’ s greatest achievement 5. 1876, last novel, Daniel Deronda. These novels, together with a number of poems amp。 a collection of satirical essays, The Impressions of Theophrastus Such, constitute a formidable body of work from a woman frail in health amp。 working constantly under the apprehension of failure or worthlessness. III. Achievements 1. Writing at the latter half of the 19th century amp。 closely following the critical realist writers, Gee Eliot was working at something new. 2. By joining the worlds of inward propensity amp。 outward circumstances amp。 showing them in the lives of her characters, she starts a new type of realism amp。 sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic amp。 psychological novel. 3. In her works, she seeks to present the inner struggle of a person amp。 to reveal the motives, impulses amp。 hereditary influences which govern human action. 4. She is interested in the development of a soul, the slow growth or decline of moral power of the character. 5. Eliot holds the belief that a certain act in daily life will produce a definite moral effect on the individual. 6. Most of her novels are characterized by two features: moral teaching amp。 psychological realism. theme of her works As a woman of exceptional intelligence amp。 life experience, Gee Eliot shows a particular concern for the destiny of women, especially those with great intelligence, potential amp。 social aspirations. In her mind, the pathetic tragedy of women lies in their very birth. Their inferior education amp。 limited social life determine that they must depend on men for sustenance amp。 realization of their goals, amp。 they have only to fulfill the domestic duties expected of them by the society. Their opportunities of success are not even increased by wealth. Charlotte Bronte amp。 Emily Bronte I. Life of the Bronte sisters Charlotte(39), Emily(30) ,Anne(29) 1. born in Yorkshire moors, daughters of a poor country clergyman. 2. 2 elder daughters died in the charity school 3. Charlotte and Emily once worked as governesses II. Jane Eyre 简爱 III. Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄 1. Plot (P264268) a story about two families and an intruding stranger 2. Point of view: first person point of view。 3. narration: two dramatic narrators (Mr. Lockwood, and Nelly Dean) IV. detailreading (268278) 1. content: Final meeting of Heathcliff and Catherine before Catherine’ s death 2. narrator: Nelly Dean 3. their love: passion, love, agony, horror 4. Catherine: a mon girl who met an unmon love. In her heart, the struggle between true love and tradition never ceased, and finally caused her early death. 5. theme : a. criticism upon the materialism and social discrimination. b. hatred and revenge are meaningless。 only love lasts forever. 6. features: Romantic color (private passion and personal emotions。 description of nature。 Gothic elements) Gothic Novel The word “ Gothic” originally implied medieval, but in the later 18th century, when the Gothic novel became influential, the word added the implication of mystery, horror and supernatural. Gothic novel is a type of prose fiction which flourished in 1790s and early years in the 19th century. It once refers to the novel which produces stories set in lonely frightening Gothic places. It is now generally applied to literature dealing with the strange, mysterious and supernatural designed to invoke suspense and terror in the readers. On Gothic Novel There is a strong Gothic strain in many mainstream 19th century works, including the works of the Brontes, Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Hawthorne. In the 20th century, the genre flourished notably in popular horror fiction and films. Jane eyre Significance: 1. one of the most popular amp。 important novels of the Victorian age. 2. its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. II. Point of view first person point of view III. Character (Jane Eyre) 1. a na239。 ve, kindhe。