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1、Chapter TheVictorianAge1832-19015/26/2023 11.Historical background:The Victorian age can be roughly divided into three periods:(1)1832-1848:a time of social unrest;(2)1848-1870:a period of economic prosperity and religious controversy;(3)1870-1901:a period of decay of Victorian values.5/26/2023 22.T

2、he Victorian Poetsn LordAlfredTennyson(1809-1892);n RobertBrowning(1812-1889);n MatthewArnold(1822-1888)5/26/2023 32.1 Lord Alfred Tennyson n PoetLaureate.HewrotemanylyricsinmemoryofhisfriendArthurHallam,including“Break,Break,Break”.5/26/2023 43.The Victorian novelists:n Charles Dickensn William Mak

3、epeace Thackerayn Emily Bronten Thomas Hardyn Oscar Wilde5/26/2023 63.1 Charles Dickens(1812-1870):n Dombey and Son(1847-1848)ThroughtheportrayalofMr.Dombey,DickensshowstheprideoftheupperstrataoftheBritishbourgeoisieinthemid-19thcentury,whoconsideredthemselvestheeliteoftheworld.n Dickenssawthattheex

4、pansionofcapitalisminsteadofbringingbenevolenceandequalityofhumansociety,producedofhandfulofcommercialandindustrialmagnates.n Andtheirprideofwealth,or“purse-pride”,isthethemeofthenovel.5/26/2023 73.2 William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)n Life:n BorninCalcutta,India;thesonofaCollectorintheEastIndia

5、Companysservice.n Fatherdiedwhenhewasthree;senthometoEnglandin1817.n EducatedatCharterhouse,TrinityCollege,Cambridge.Leftin1830withouttakingadegree.n In1831,heenteredtheMiddleTempletolearnlaws,showinglittleinterest.n 1833,lostallhisfortuneduetothecollapseoftheIndianagency-housesn 1834-1837:livedinPa

6、ris,makingameagrelivingfromjournalism.n Duringthe1840s,Thackeraybegantomakehisnameasawriter.5/26/2023 83.3 The Bronte Sistersn Emily Bronte:Wuthering Heightsn Emilysonlynovel,whichwaspublishedinDecemberof1847underthepseudonymEllisBell.Itdidnotgainimmediatesuccess,EmilyBrontdiedoftuberculosisayearaft

7、erWuthering Heightswaspublished,onDecember19,1848,n Theme:Race/Class/Education;Revenge;Supernatural5/26/2023 103.4 Thomas Hardy:Tess of the DUrbervillesn Theme:mankindissubjectedtotheruleofsomehostileandmysteriousfate,whichbringsmisfortunetohumanlife.Fatalism:chanceandfate;Naturalism;ThefinaldisintegrationofpeasantryinEngland;Hypocriticalmorality5/26/2023 114.The Victorian Playwrightn George Bernard Shaw:n Thedramaticconflictinhisplaysistheconflictofthoughtandbelief,n Discussionisthebasisoftheplays,n Shawprovesthatmentalandmoralpassioncouldproduceabsorbingdramaticmaterial.5/26/2023 13