英国文学史与选读
讲座课件
汤富华 2004年3月
通过作品找意境，通过中西文学
对比，让文学课升华至文化课，让我
们的学生成为自己的主人。
Early and Medieval English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer, the founder of
English poetry, was born, about
1340, in London. He was the son
of a wine merchant who had
connections with the court.
Francis Bacon
“Of Studies”
To be recited Compared with 《劝学篇》
Of Studies
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring,
for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the
judgment and disposition of business. For different expert
man can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by
one; But the general courses and the plots and marshalling
of affaires, come best from those that are learned. To spend
too much time on study is sloth, to use them too much for
ornament, is affectation, to make judgment only by their
rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature and
are perfected by experience, for nature abilities are like
nature plants, that need to be pruning by study, and studies
themselves do give forth directions too much at large.
荀子·劝学
君子曰：学不可以已。青，取之于蓝，而青于蓝；冰，水
为之，而寒于水。木直中绳，揉以为轮，其曲中规，虽有槁暴，
不复挺者，輮使之然也。故木受绳则直，金就砾则利。君子博
学而日参省乎己，则知明而行无过矣。
吾尝终日而思矣，不如须臾之所学也。吾尝跂而望矣，不
如登高之博见也。登高而招，臂非加长也，而见者远。顺风而
呼，声非加疾也，而闻者彰。假舆 马者，非利足也，而致千里。
假舟辑者，非能水也，而绝江河。君子生非异也，善假于物也。
积土成山，风雨兴焉。积水成渊，蛟龙生焉。积善成德，
而神明自得，圣心备焉。故不积跬步，无以至千里；不积小流，
无以成江海。骐骥一跃，不能十步；驽马十驾，功在不舍。锲
而舍之，朽木不折；锲而不舍，金石可镂。蚓无爪牙之利,筋骨
之强，上食埃土，下饮黄泉，用心一也。蟹六跪而二螯，非蛇
蟺之穴无可寄托者，用心躁也。
Thomas More(1478-1535)
He was born in a middle-
class family.his father was a
prominent lawyer,and later a
judge.A scholar by nature ,he
became a lawyer.Quite early
he was elected to Parliament
and he acted as the spokesman
of London merchants who
were on e of the principal
stays of the Tudor monarchy.
Daniel Defoe: 1660-1731
• Son of James and Mary
Foe, a merchant family
committed to Puritanism
(Presbyterians)
• Sound education at
Morton’s Academy.
Only Anglicans could
graduate from Oxford or
Cambridge.
• 1684: Marries Mary
Tuffley, an heiress with
3,700 a year.
• Fought briefly in the Duke
of Monmouth’s rebellion
against James II.
• Bankruptcy and debt
turned him towards writing.
• 1701: writes “The True
Born Englishman”
• 1703: Pilloried for writing
“The Shortest Way with
Dissenters.”
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
• 1719: First volume of
Robinson Crusoe. A hit
with lower and middle
classes.
• Based on the experience
of Alexander Selkirk.
• 1722: Moll Flanders. A
novel that draws on his
own experience in
Newgate prison.
Crusoe: 1810 edition
Samuel Johnson (1709—84)
lexicographer, critic and poet, was
born in Lichfield, Stafforshire, the son
of a poor bookseller. After studying at
Oxford for little more than a year, he
was forced to leave the university by
poverty. Then followed his long struggle
as a hack writer.
In 1741, some booksellers asked
Johnson to compile a dictionary or the
English language. It took him eight
years to finish this enormous work, and
in 1755 his “Dictionary” was published.
Johnson thought that “all was false and
hollow” despised the honeyed words, and
wrote a letter to Lord Chestfield, saying
“ when I had once addressed your lordship
in public, I had exhausted all the art or
pleasing which a retired and uncourtly
scholar can possess.”
Letter to Lord Chestfield
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William Shakespeare
1564-1616
“All the world 's a stage,
And all the men and women
merely players.”
• Born in Stratford
• The 3rd of 8 kids
• Married at age 18
• (his wife was 26)
• Worked as an actor
• By 1594 at least 6
plays had been
published
The Globe Theater 1599
Burned in 1613
The New Globe Theater 1999
Comedies
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Much Ado About Nothing
• As You Like I
• Twelfth Night
• Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tragedies
• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Macbeth
Hamlet
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of the heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as a man can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives live to thee.
致橡树
我如果爱你——/绝不学攀援的凌霄花，/借你的高枝炫耀自己；
我如果爱你——/绝不学痴情的鸟儿，/为绿荫重复单调的歌曲；
也不止像泉源/常年送来清凉的慰籍；/也不止像险峰，
增加你的高度，/衬托你的威仪。/甚至日光/甚至春雨
不，这些都还不够/我必须是你近旁的一株木棉，
作为树的形像和你站在一起。/根，相握在地下；
叶，相触在云里。/每一阵风吹过，我们都互相致意，
但没有人/听懂我们的言语/你有你的铜枝铁干，
像刀像剑也像戟；/我有我红硕的花朵，/像沉重的叹息，
又像英勇的火炬/我们分担寒潮风雷霹雳；
我们共享雾霭流岚虹霓；/仿佛永远分离，却又终身相依
这才是伟大的爱情，/坚贞就在这里/爱/不仅爱你伟岸的身躯，
也爱你坚持的位置，/足下的土地。
John Milton (1608—1674)
“Paradise Lost”
Its meaning of equity
Background：
John Milton, the greatest English poet after
Shakespeare, was the one great literary figure who
want tried seriously to combine Renaissance and
Reformation. His rich stories of classical learning
with revival of deep religious feeling.
Milton’s work can be divided into
three creative period. The first period
was up to 1641, during which time he
was to be seen chiefly as a son of the
humanity and Elizabethans, although
his Puritanism was not absent.
Milton is one of the very few truly
great English writers who is also a
prominent figure in politics and who is
both a great poet and important prose
writer.
渡边淳一
The Age of Romanticism
1750-1850
This cultural era is a continuation of, & overlaps with,
the Enlightenment. Its characteristics include:
• Romantic love
• Liberalism and freedom
• An upsurge of nationalism & patriotism
• Sympathy for the poor & less fortunate.
• An appreciation of nature
• A fascination with horror
Romantic Artists
• John Constable
• J.M.W. Turner
• Eugene Delacroix
• J.F.Goya
A Romantic Painting by John Constable
Romantic Musicians
• Wolfgang Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig von Beethoven “immortal beloved”
• Johan Brahms; Frederic Chopin
• Franz List; Peter Tchaikovsky
• Franz Schubert; Richard Wagner
• Guiseppi Verdi
Wolfgang Sebastian Bach
German composer & organist
Ludwig von Beethoven
Great composer of symphonies
Romantic Historians
• Georg Hegel - Communism
• Jules Michelet - Idealization of French history
• George Bancroft - Divine Providence for USA
• Thomas Carlyle - Great Men theory
• Thomas Billington McCaulay - British history
• Heinrich von Treitschke - German nationalism
First Bicycle: Germany, 1816
no pedals, chains, or brakes.
First manned Balloon Flight
• A 70 ft. tall balloon
scended in Paris in
November, 1783.
• It traveled 7 & 1/2
miles in 26 minutes;
and reached a height
of 3000 feet.
Romantic Authors
Robert Burns (1759—?)
“A Red, Red Rose”
“Auld Lang Syne”
抒发情怀是文人墨客的做派，同时也是
所有读书人表达对时事，人生百态的观点的
最好的一种方式。中西文化在这一点上是完
全相同的。
Burns的A Red, Red Rose是一首难得的好情诗。
Auld Lang Syne.更是成了全世界家喻户晓的好歌，很像
中国的王洛宾的那首《在那遥远的地方》。其实，抒发像
Auld Lang Syne这种韵味，无论哪个民族都有，如《月
光下的凤尾竹》由施光南作曲，云南傣族人用葫芦丝演奏
的曲调也有异曲同工的效果。
要启发学生读进文学作品，同时也要走出文学作品，
将作品给予的启发和感受时刻与现实生活相联系。更要通
过阅读脍炙人口的作品提高个人的修养。
Herbert Schiller
• German romanticist
who idealized heroic
deeds and struggles
for freedom.
Wolfgang von Goethe, author of “Faust”
Sir Walter Scott
• Author of Ivanhoe &
Rob Roy.
• Romantic themes
included Scottish
nationalism &
independence.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Used images of
phantoms and terrors
arising from the
depths of the
emotions.
• Author of The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner.
William Wordsworth
romantic poetry
William Wordsworth
principal poem：
We are seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
To the cuckoo
I Wondered lonely as a cloud
The Solitary Reaper
Intimations or Immortality
The Prelude
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
----William Wordsworth
1 2
I wandered lonely as a cloud Continuous as the stars that shine
That floats on high o’er vales and hills, And twinkle on the milky way,
When all at once I saw a crowd, They stretched in the never-ending line
A host, of golden daffodils; Along the margin of a bay;
Beside the lake, beneath the tress, Ten thousand say I at a glance,
Fluttering and dance in the breeze. Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
3 4
The waves beside them danced; but they For oft, when on my couch I lie
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; In vacant or in pensive mood,
A poet could not but be gay, They flash upon that inward eye
In such a jocund company; Which is the bliss of solitude;
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought And then my heart with pleasure fills,
What wealth the show to me had brought: And dance with the daffodils.
再别康桥
徐志摩
轻轻的我走了， 那树荫下的一潭，
正如我轻轻的来； 不是清泉，是天上虹
我轻轻的招手， 揉碎在浮藻间，
作别西天的云彩。 沉淀着彩虹似的梦。
寻梦？撑一支长篙，
那河畔的金柳 向青草更青处漫溯，
是夕阳中的新娘 满载一船星辉，
波光里的艳影， 在星辉斑斓里放歌
在我的心头荡漾。 但我不能放歌，
悄悄是别离的笙箫；
软泥上的青荇， 夏虫也为我沉默，
油油的在水底招摇； 沉默是今晚的康桥！
在康河的柔波里， 悄悄的我走了，
我甘心做一条水草 正如我悄悄的来；
我挥一挥衣袖，
不带走一片云彩。
徐志摩是20世纪初中国杰出的诗人、散文家,是
一个值得敬佩和怀念的名字。他不仅在五四新文学
史上是“新月社”的巨挚、“新月诗派”的祭酒,
在新文学创作上所发射的光芒,如日中天,久而不晦;
而且他风流、浪漫的人生,同样是那样传奇瑰丽, 又
富有诗情画意,可与中国的李商隐、温庭绚、杜牧 ,
英国的拜伦、雪莱、济慈相媲美。悲喜交织的爱情,
放荡不羁的生活,外圆内方的交际,惊世骇俗的创作,
绝顶天才的智慧 ,卑己自牧的性格,浪迹天涯的漫游,
构成了徐志摩的卓尔不群,更为中国文坛平添了不少
佳话。
徐志摩的一生,是浪漫不羁的一生,虚无缭纱的
一生,耐人寻味的一生,所以有人说他胸襟开阔,心灵
纯洁,人格高尚,作品光辉,举世无双,名垂千古;也有
人说他颓废堕落,道德败坏,色情猥亵,风花雪月,风
流倜傥。徐志摩逝世70年来,人们仍没有真正地了解
和认识他。那些“评传”之类的书籍,就像流水账一
样 , 记录了徐志摩支离破碎的一生,却未能深入地
剖析当时中国知识分子所面临的种种磨难,特别是对
西方文化的接受;至于徐志摩的作品如何融合东西方
文化的格调和趣味,研究的人更少。
徐志摩原名章垿, 号志摩,浙江海宁人。1920 年获
美国哥伦比亚大学社会学硕士,后转英国剑桥大学取得
特别生资格,在王家学院随意选课听讲。从此他抛弃了
以往攻读的社会学、经济学,改学文学,他的思想和生
活发生了很大变化。徐志摩在剑桥期间致力于西洋文
学的钻研,历时两年。这个时期,他的感情如山洪暴发,
生命受到一种伟大力量的震撼。缤纷的花雨,不成熟的
意念,新诗的心境,我们可以从他的那篇《想飞》看出
这时候他思想生活的轨迹。这时的徐志摩已由一个单
纯的爱国青年, 转变成为一个浪漫诗人,并创立了
“生活是艺术”的所谓“艺术的人生观”。
刘心皇曾这样评价说,徐志摩之所以可爱,除了徐志
摩绝没有一般文人的小气、多疑、嫉妒、搬弄是非,或
是今日连甲攻乙 , 明日连丙攻甲……的毛病之外 , 尤
其在于(1) 性格好:热情诚挚,淳朴天真,有赤子之心,是
一团同情,是一团爱。(2)对朋友好:他有同情心,是朋友
之间的连锁。(3)对一般人好:他对任何人任何事绝没有
怨恨,永不恨人,也永想不到人会恨他。(4)极风趣:很自
然地讨人欢喜 , 他一生决不让人苦闷。这是对徐志摩
其人的一个极好的概括,入微入妙,逼真逼肖。
摘自：《风流才子——徐志摩》
O blithe new-comer! I have heard, The same whom in my schoolboy days
I hear thee and rejoice. I listened to; that Cry
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Which made me look a thousand ways
Or but a wandering Voice? In bush, and tree, and sky.
To seek thee did I often rove
While I am lying on the grass
Through woods and on the green;
Thy twofold shout I hear; And thou wert still a hope, a love;
From hill to hill it seems to pass Still longed for, never seen.
At once far off, and near.
Though babbling only to the Vale, And I can listen to thee yet;
Of sunshine and of flowers, Can lie upon the plain
Thou bringest unto me a tale And listen, till I do beget
Of visionary hours. That golden time again.
Thrice welcome, darling of the O blessed Bird! the earth we
Spring! pace
Even ye thou art to me Again appears to be
No bird, but an invisible thing, An unsubstantial, faery place;
A voice a mystery; That is fit home for thee!
George Gordon, Lord Byron: 1788-
1824
• Acquires his title at age 10
from his great-uncle the
“Wicked Lord Byron.”
• Moves with his mother to
Newstead Abbey, near
Nottingham
• 1801: attends Harrow
• 1805: Cambridge
• Meets his half sister
Augusta during this period.
• 1807: First volume of poetry
Hours of Idleness.
Byron: 1807-1815
• 1807: Byron departs on his
grand tour—to Lisbon,
Spain, Greece and Albania.
Begins work on Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage.
• 1810: Visits Turkey.
• 1811: At 24, Byron returns
to London.
• 1812: The first two cantos
of Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage published.
• 1814: The Corsair
• 1815: Hebrew Melodies
The “mad-bad- and dangerous” Lord
Byron
• Liaisons with Lady
Caroline Lamb; Lady
Oxford.
• Scandal and gossip about
his relationship with
Augusta, whose child is
named Medora (heroine of
The Corsair).
• 1815: Marries Annabella
Milbanke.
• Annabella leaves a few
weeks after the birth of
Augusta Ada
Byron: 1816-1819
• 1816: Byron settles in
Geneva, near Percy and
Mary Shelley, and Claire
Clairmont.
• 1817: begins work on
Manfred. Leaves for
Venice. Continues work
on the third and fourth
cantos of Childe Harold.
• Sells Newstead Abbey
for £ 94,500
• 1819: First two cantos
of Don Juan.
Byron: 1819-1824
• 1819: Meets Countess
Teresa Guiccioli and her
Carbonari family.
• 1821: Publishes another
mystery play, Cain.
• Robert Southey follows with
his comment on “the Satanic
School.”
• Byron publishes The Vision
of Judgment a rebuttal to
Southey.
• 1823: Joins the Greek war of
independence.
• Falls ill in 1824 and dies in
April at the age of 36.
The Byronic Hero
• Goethe’s Faust Part one is
published in 1808.
• In Geneva, Byron meets M.G.
Lewis author of The Monk who
translates Faust.
• Part Two of Goethe’s Faust is
published posthumously in 1832.
• The figure of Goethe’s
Euphorion is based on Byron.
• Goethe: “Byron is not antique
and is not romantic, but he is the
present day itself. Such a one I
had to have. Moreover, he was
just my man on account of his
unsatisfied nature and of his
warlike bent, which led him to
his doom at Missolonghi.”
She walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night One shade the more, one ray the less,
Of cloudless climes and starry skies; Had half impair'd the nameless grace
And all that 's best of dark and bright Which waves in every raven tress,
Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light Where thoughts serenely sweet express
Which heaven to gaudy day denies. How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
“Ode To The West Wind”
“Ozymandias”
Percy Shelly, fought injustice;and Greek
war of independence from the Turks.
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own?
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
Ode to the West Wind My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Chart 5 Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither’d leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
John Keats(1795-1821)
“To Autumn”
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinéd flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barréd clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Http://www.englishstory.net/byron.html
提供拜伦的生平、年谱、诗选、书信选、图像以及诗
人同时代人和文学批评家对诗人的评论，还有相关的
链接。
Http://www.cas.astate.edu/engphil/gallery/byron.html
提供拜伦的生平、书信和日记全篇以及相关站点链接。
Http://www.bartleby.com/139/
提供雪莱的生平和诗歌全集。
Http://www.libary.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/author
s/shelly.html
提供雪莱诗选和散文选。
Http://www.englishhistory.net/keats.html
提供济慈的生平、年谱、诗选、书信选、图像、
诗人同时代人和文学批评家对诗人的评论以及
有关济慈的学术论文，还有相关站点链接。
Http://www.bl.uk/exhibitions/keats
提供济慈生平、诗选、诗歌朗诵及图像等
The Victorian Age 1830-1901
• Industry
• Growth of Cities
• Growth of the British Empire
• Science
• Religious Doubt
• Changing Role of Women
Elizabeth
Barrett
Browning
Alfred
Lord
Tennyson
Charles Darwin(达尔文）
Dickens’ Novels
The First Period
1836 “Sketches by Boz”
1836-37 “Pickwick Papers”
1837-38 “Oliver Twist”
1838-39 “Nicholas Nickleby”
1840-41 “Old Curiosity Shop”
1841 “Barnaby Rudge”
The Second Period
1842 “American Notes”
1843-45 “Martin Chuzzlewit”
1843 “A Christmas Carol” (a Christmas book)
1844 “The Chimes” (a Christmas book)
1845 “The Cricket on the Hearth” (a Christmas book)
1846-48 “Dombey AND Son”
1849-50 “David Copperfield”
The Third Period
1852-53 “Bleak House”
1854 “Hard Time”
1855-57 “Little Dorrit”
1859 “A Tale of Two Cites”
1860-61 “Great Expectations”
1864-65 “Our Mutual Friend”
1870 “Edwin Drood”
Http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
提供狄更斯的生平、创作以及各种评论。
Http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dicken
sov.html
提供英国维多利亚时代社会历史、政治面貌和宗教习俗以及
狄更斯小说的文学意想、人物肖像和叙述结构等。
Jane Austen(1775—1817)
“Pride and Prejudice”
“Sense and Sensibility”
“Emma”
“Persuasion”
“Mansfield Park”
Jane Austen(1775—1817)
“Pride and Prejudice”
It is the story of a young girl who rejects an offer of marriage
because the young nobleman who makes it has been rude to her
family. It is a very plot but around it the authoress has woven
vivid pictures or the everyday life of simple country society.
Purpose: ask the students to read novels of the time that they
clearly get aware of it. Like the time economy, history and
persons. Also a lot of incidents which are related to them. Only
on the base if through understanding the history with regards to
economic, military and even climatic change or development can
we fully understand the hero or the heroing of the literatural
world.
Besides this we should compare them with present time if
the time of our own culture. Like Victorian age and late
Qing Dynasty, students should know Chao Xueqin, Lin
Zhenxu. Also some questions should be raised always in the
mind. Why Victorian Age was so powerful in terms of her
economic and military and industrial development.
Assignment: A essay on Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jane
Eyre, Pride and Prejudice.
1.
Through all the writing practice students can get more
benefits in narration .
Talks and discussion on Tess would set people thinking.
Suppose Tess’s happy ending. What it would be like?
Ask students to prepare imagined ending.
hoping Tess will happily live with Angel and with the baby
growing healthily.
2.
Other novelists of the Victorian Age:
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell(1818—1865). She has a strong
sympathy for the workers.
Masterpiece: Cranford , Marry Barton , Biography of
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen completed six novels, Northanger
Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and
Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma.
Her novels were published anonymously owing to
the prejudice prevailing at the time concerning the
writing of novels by a lady.
Living a quiet life in the countryside, she kept her
eyes steadily upon the people and incidents about
herm, and wrote the small part of the world she lived
in.
“Pride and Prejudice” has been the most widely read
among them. Austen began to write it when she was
21.But the manuscript “went begging” for 16 years at
the doors of publishers before it was published in
1813.It is the story of a young girl who rejected an offer
of marriage because the young nobleman who makes it
has been rude to her family. It is a very thin plot, but
around it the authoress has woven vivid pictures if the
everyday life of simple country society.
Through description id the daily talks and doings of
the young men and the women. Austen paints their
characters. She is at her best in writing about young
girls, because she understood them astonishingly well.
Victorian Age
Queen Victorian was the ruler of English from
1837 to 1901, so it is customary to call the writing
produced during this long stretch or years Victorian
literature.
Three phases: the Early Victorian Period
(1832—1848), a time of troubles: the Mid—
Victorian Period(1848—1870), a time of economic
prospering and religious controversy; and the Last
Period(1870—1901), a time characterized by decay
of Victorian values.
试图以历史学观察中国文化、经济、政治、
军事的发展史兼与英国同时期的文学作品作比较。
维多利亚时期的世纪人物： 马克思、亚当斯
密、达尔文、狄更斯、萨克雷、哈代.
中国该时代的人物有慈禧、曹雪芹、林则徐、
魏源。
细目：1、以英国为首的资本主义大扩张
2、工人的生活条件和宪章运动
3、改革
4、达尔文的进化论
5、妇女问题
维多利亚时期的文学
乐观主义与悲观主义者：
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
William Makepeace
Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Victorian Poetry
维多利亚时期的诗歌
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Questions: the modern meaning o female
problem; women’s liberation . Is there still a Tess
around you?
There figure Alec, Angel Clare, talker of Tess ,
are good people.
一百年前的人物在现实社会中的意义，从Tess的悲
剧看爱情的宿命和幸福的乌托邦。思考该小说对学生
的生活指导意义。
Tess是悲剧的总和，从Alec和Angel 的来往，对女
性的看法沿袭了古代的做法。
“Jane Erye”
透析 Jane与Helen 的对话中善与恶的启蒙思
想，两人对Helen的不同看法，展示了人群的价
值观“善为先”如Jane眼中Temple 是可恶的，而
Helen如此:Miss Temple is full of goodness. She
guilty tells me of my mistakes , and praises me if I do
well.
Jane在成长的变化中已是显露出起善念的转
变。Jane的婶子Mrs. Reed在临死前与Jane的对话
又可看出其善念开始下降。
“Why did I never hear of this? I asked, amaze. I
hated you so much that I wrote back to him, telling
him you had died o typhus fever at Lowood. That was
my revenge on you, for causing me so much trouble!”
She cried angrily.
“Dear aunt,” I said, “don’t think about that any
more…
解释：从 Jan对 Rochester 的求婚的对白试图说
明男女之间情爱的追求和人生命赋义。
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Thomas Hardy(1840—1928).
Novelist and poet, is one o the representatives of English
critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. He was born
in Dorset, a southern country of England, which he called
Wessex in his books.
Hardy wrote prodigiously. His principal works are the
Wessex Novel. i.e. the novels describing the characters and
environment of his native countryside. They include “Under
the Greenwood Tree”. Far from Madding Crowd. The Mayor
of Casterbridge. Jude the obscure.
Lecture with Debate：
Talks
Topic :Comparison between Charles Dickens and William
Makepeace Thackeray
The coincidence of the same birth period of the two great novelists
The main idea or rough impression of the two.
Why you like either of them?
Thackeray, borrowing Bunyan’s idea “Vanity city ” regard the
circle o petty bourgeois and aristocratic society as Vanity Faire, a
faire where should sold all sorts of vanity.
Therefore, at this faire are all such merchandise sold, as horses,
lands , trades, places, honors, preferments, titles countries,
Kingdoms, lusts, pleasures and delights of all sorts, as whores,
bawds wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood,
bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones and what not
Mathew Arnold (1822—1888)
“Dover Beach”
Explanation of their city Dover where recently about
50 Chinese were dead during struggling transport to
England from Spain
Also tell the students the spelling mistakes of printing.
Related to Wordsworth’s poems
Samuel Johnson: Letter to Lord Chesterfield
联系Wordsworth和Letter to Lord Chesterfield进行
赏析。重点研究和体会Sea of Faith对人、对神、对情
的一往情深。
Robber Browning(1812—1889)
“Meeting At Night”
Browning began his literary career as an
ardent follower or Shelly. Late he managed
to avoid the subjective of Shelley and
created his own objective way of writing.
His earliest works included Pauline(1833)
his first poem: Paracelsus
Oscar Wilde(1854 ---1900)
“Preface to the picture of Dorian Gray”
Oscar Wilde ,a dramatist, poet, novelist and
essayist was born in Dublin, Ireland.
IN 1879, he settled in London and soon won a
reputation both as a writer and as a spokesman
Or the school of “Art for Art’s Sake”. He soon
became the leader of the Aesthetic Movement.
Vera----- a play
The Picture of Dorian Gray
James Joyce 1882-1941
The psychoanalytic method of Sigmuid Freud (1856-1939)
and intuitive and semi-mystical philosophy of Henri
Bergson (1859-1941) also contributed to both the form
and content of stream of consciousness fiction.
Stream of consciousness , which presents the (hoight) of
character in the random, seemingly unorganized fashion
in which the thinking process occurs, has the following
characteristics.
Although James Joyce did not invent to technique of
Stream of consciousness fiction, no other writer in
England used it so systematically or such profound
effect. He worked tirelessly to perfect this technique
through careful use of words, to convey precisely and
subtly to the reader what was the inner, mental state of
his characters.
Ulysesses (1922-) is generally acknowledge to be his
master piece and a typical example of stream of
consciousness technique. This novel deals with the
events of one day in Dublin in June, 1904
Modernist Novelists:
James Joyce (1882—1941)
Virginia Woolf (1882—1941)
D.H. Lawrence (1885—1930)
Virginia Woolf 出生于伦敦，父亲是著名学者、
传记作家,未受正规学校教育。共创作9部小说及
若干短篇小说。主要有The Voyage Dut,1915.
Night and Day, 1919. Jacob’s Room Mrs. Dalloway,
1925. To the Lighthouse, 1927. Orlando, 1928.
The Waves, 1941. The Years, 1937. Between the Acts,
1941.
意识流小说构成任尔英最引人注目的文
学成就，她对女性存在的历史与现状独具慧
眼的反思与洞察，使其成为女性批评史上先
驱式人物。任尔英晚年周期性的精神崩溃使
她生活苦不堪言。1941年3月28日，即在乔
伊斯病逝两个半月之后，任尔英将她的帽子
和手杖留在一条河边投水自尽。
D.H.Lawrance （1885~1930）
出生于诺丁汉郡伊斯伍德（Easterwood），父
亲是煤矿工人，母亲是小学教师。第一部小说（The
White Peacock）1911年发表。自传性质的小说Sons
and Lovers.1913. 特别描写了使他最为成功的两部小
说——Rainbow1915和Women in Love1921。这两作品
都对资本主义工业文明提出了强烈的批评。
最有争议及最成名的作品Lady Chatterley’s
Lover1928。
《短歌行》
对酒当歌，人生几何？譬如朝露，去日苦多。
慨当以慷，忧思难忘。何以解忧？惟有杜康。
青青子衿，悠悠我心。但为君故，沉吟至今。
呦呦鹿鸣，食野之蘋。我有嘉宾，鼓瑟吹笙。
明明如月，何时可掇？忧从中来，不可断绝。
越陌度阡，枉用相存。契阔谈讌，心念旧恩。
月明星稀，乌鹊南飞。绕树三匝，何枝可依？
山不厌高，海不厌深。周公吐哺，天下归心。
建安十三年，曹操率大军南下，列阵长江，
欲一举荡平孙刘势力。大战前夕，酒宴众文武，
饮至半夜，忽闻鸦声望南飞鸣而去。曹操感此景
而持槊歌此《短歌行》。
此诗气格高远，感情丰富，是诗人内心世界
的真实写照。诗中，诗人以感人的真诚和慷慨悲
凉的情感咏叹了生命的忧患、生命的悲剧。以貌
似颓放的意态来表达及时进取的精神，以放纵歌
酒的行为来表现对人生哲理的严肃思考，以觥筹
交错之景来抒发心忧天下和渴慕人才之情。全诗
以感慨开始，继之以慷慨、沉吟，再继之以忧愁、
开朗。一忧一喜，忽徐忽急，以如歌的行板倾诉
了作者慷慨激昂的情怀。