英国文学史英国作家理查森Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
❖ A storyteller. ❖ A letter-writer. ❖ A moralizer.
Life Experience
❖ 1689, born in Derbyshire. ❖ 1707, apprenticed to a
printer in London. ❖ 1720, successful as a
❖ The profound knowledge of human nature was mainly acquired by conversation.
❖ His realistic aesthetics was in conformity with the progressive, Encyclopaedist thought of his time.
Comparison: Tom and Blifil
Tom
Blifil
A good-natured, handsome young man, frank and open, kind, disinterested
Waywardness and imprudence.
Villain of the story, sober, discreet and pious beyond his age, extremely careful of his money.
Founder of English Realistic Novel
❖ Sets up the theory of realism in literary creation.
❖ A truthful artist’s duty was to produce human nature faithfully and accurately as he saw it.
Clarissa
❖ Plot overview. ❖ Character Analysis
Clarissa: a lady of independence and personal dignity. She cannot marry without love, cannot love without honor.
printer. ❖ 1721, married Martha
Wilde. ❖ 1731, his wife died. ❖ 1733, married Elizabeth
Leake.
❖ 1740, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
❖ 1747-8 , Clarissa. or the History of a Young Lady
Joseph Andrews
❖ A parody of Pamela: Instead having a woman as the victim of social injustice, he had a man as its victim.
❖ Intention: to satirize the excessive sentimental moralism in Pamela; designed to furnish instruction as well as entertainment
Tom Jones
❖ Plot Overview
❖ General View: Tom Jones gives a comprehensive, all-embracing picture of the life of 18th century England, combined with understanding of human psychology and criticism of social evils, together with full-blooded characters, realistically depicted in brilliant, witty and highly artistic language.
Henry Fielding
❖ A writer ❖ A playwright ❖ A journalist ❖ Founder of the English
Realistic school in literature with Samuel Richardson.
Major Works
❖ Joseph Andrews,1742 ❖ Jonathan Wild, 1743 ❖ Tom Jones,1749
❖ Portrays the real life of men without disguise; exposes the hypocrisy and depravity of the ruling class, and pictures the poverty of the working masses.
❖ 1761, died from a paralytic stroke.
Pamela
1. A “best-seller” of the day 2. Epistolary 3. For the first time the
author gave a detailed description of the English Family life in the mid of 18th century. 4. The first English psychoanalytical novel.
Inner nature is wholly corrupt.
Fielding the Man
❖ A man full of vigor. ❖ Outstanding capacity
for work. ❖ Active mind—
learning, meditating, and creating.
❖ A storyteller. ❖ A letter-writer. ❖ A moralizer.
Life Experience
❖ 1689, born in Derbyshire. ❖ 1707, apprenticed to a
printer in London. ❖ 1720, successful as a
❖ The profound knowledge of human nature was mainly acquired by conversation.
❖ His realistic aesthetics was in conformity with the progressive, Encyclopaedist thought of his time.
Comparison: Tom and Blifil
Tom
Blifil
A good-natured, handsome young man, frank and open, kind, disinterested
Waywardness and imprudence.
Villain of the story, sober, discreet and pious beyond his age, extremely careful of his money.
Founder of English Realistic Novel
❖ Sets up the theory of realism in literary creation.
❖ A truthful artist’s duty was to produce human nature faithfully and accurately as he saw it.
Clarissa
❖ Plot overview. ❖ Character Analysis
Clarissa: a lady of independence and personal dignity. She cannot marry without love, cannot love without honor.
printer. ❖ 1721, married Martha
Wilde. ❖ 1731, his wife died. ❖ 1733, married Elizabeth
Leake.
❖ 1740, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
❖ 1747-8 , Clarissa. or the History of a Young Lady
Joseph Andrews
❖ A parody of Pamela: Instead having a woman as the victim of social injustice, he had a man as its victim.
❖ Intention: to satirize the excessive sentimental moralism in Pamela; designed to furnish instruction as well as entertainment
Tom Jones
❖ Plot Overview
❖ General View: Tom Jones gives a comprehensive, all-embracing picture of the life of 18th century England, combined with understanding of human psychology and criticism of social evils, together with full-blooded characters, realistically depicted in brilliant, witty and highly artistic language.
Henry Fielding
❖ A writer ❖ A playwright ❖ A journalist ❖ Founder of the English
Realistic school in literature with Samuel Richardson.
Major Works
❖ Joseph Andrews,1742 ❖ Jonathan Wild, 1743 ❖ Tom Jones,1749
❖ Portrays the real life of men without disguise; exposes the hypocrisy and depravity of the ruling class, and pictures the poverty of the working masses.
❖ 1761, died from a paralytic stroke.
Pamela
1. A “best-seller” of the day 2. Epistolary 3. For the first time the
author gave a detailed description of the English Family life in the mid of 18th century. 4. The first English psychoanalytical novel.
Inner nature is wholly corrupt.
Fielding the Man
❖ A man full of vigor. ❖ Outstanding capacity
for work. ❖ Active mind—
learning, meditating, and creating.