第十讲 Charles Dickens.ppt

Lecture 10Charles Dickens (1812-1870)---the greatest representative of English critical realism Life and Career 1812，born at Portsmouth. At 12 (most miserable life ), his father was put into Prison for debt . He had to give up schooling to work in an shoe-blacking factory. At 15, entered a laweyers office, two years later he became a Parliamentary reporter for newspapers. In 1833, began the career as a writer. In 1870, he died of overwork and was buried in the Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey.  ---- His novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of English society of his age ---- His works expose and criticize all the property, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him.  ---- His novels cover a wide range: social, moral, emotional, and psychological. But his social attitudes are very complicated: either optimistic or pessimistic but shows no fundamental solution . Three periods of his writing career The First Period (1836-41) ----youthful optimist The Second Period (1842-50) ---Period of excitement irritation The Third Period (1852-1870)--- Period of steadily intensifying pessimism The First Period (1836-41)-- youthful optimist Sketches by Boz (1836); 《博兹扎记》 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837); 《匹克威克外传》 Oliver Twist (1837-1838); 《雾都孤儿》 Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839); ?尼古拉斯·尼克尔贝? The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841); ?老古玩店? Barnaby Rudge(1841)《巴纳比·拉奇》 Features: na?ve optimism, belief in the function of kindliness, justice, love. The Second Period (1842-50) American Notes (1842); 《美国纪行》 Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1845); 《马丁.翟述伟》 A Christmas Carol (1843); 《圣诞颂歌》 Dombey Son (1846-1848); 《董贝父子》 David Copperfield (1849-1850) 《大卫.科波菲尔》 Features: optimism about capitalism shattered, works based on Am. visit Christian stories The Third Period (1852-1870): Summit of Dickens’ career: 1848-60 to end Bleak House (1852-1853); 《荒凉山庄》 Hard Times (1854); 《艰难时世》 Little Dorrit (1855-1857); 《小杜丽》