Chapters 7-8 英国文学简史ppt(English Literature)
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➢ Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Gulliver’s Travels ➢ This is a savage satire in the form of a fabulous
travelogue ➢ The book consists of four parts, each recording one
And fare thee well, my only Luve And fare thee well, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
Key Points in Chapter 8
18th Century Fiction Jonathan Swift
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Works ➢ “A Red Red Rose” ➢ “Tam O’Shanter”
➢ “For A’ That an’ A’ That”
A Red Red Rose
O my Luve's like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That’s sweetly play'd in tune.
Luggnagg, and Japan” ➢ Part IV: “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhunms”
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Introduction
➢ His views on the novel focus on two things of significance to the emerging genre (novel): its realism and its moral aesthetic.
➢ However, from the very outset, some dissenting voices existed and tried to make themselves heard.
➢ There waຫໍສະໝຸດ also the sly but steady assertion of emotion in the age of reason.
✓ “The Divine Image” ✓ “The Human Abstract”
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Introduction ➢ Born into a poor Scottish farmer’s family. He
experienced dire poverty and had close contact with common life and common people. ➢ He is critical of Calvinism and its hypocrisy and rigid morality. ➢ Burns wrote in the Scottish dialect, English, and a medley of the two.
• Works • Gulliver’s Travels
Daniel Defoe
• Introduction • Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
• Aesthetic Theories • Works
Laurence Sterne Tobias Smollett
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)
Works ➢ The Battle of the Books ➢ Tale of a Tub ➢ The Irish Drapier’s Letters
➢ A Modest Proposal
✓ It is one of the most caustic satires ever written in literary history
William Blake
(1757-1827)
Introduction
➢ Blake was an important landmark in between two literary periods, pointing directly to that of Romanticism.
➢ There were two factors in his life that helped to orient his thematic thrust. One was his native sensitivity that enabled him to see visions and develop a kind of mysticism. The other was his contact with some radical people.
voyage to one outlandish “remote” place. ➢ Part I: “A Voyage to Lilliput” ➢ Part II: “A Voyage to Brobdingnag” ➢ Part III: “A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibari, Glubbdubdrib,
➢ His protagonists are common people with real common names and speak as “I”, telling their own stories in the first-person narrative, addressing the readers directly without any mediation, just so as to increase the realistic effect of immediacy and involvement.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry:
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.
18th Century Fiction
➢ 18th century was one in which the novel as a genre prospered not only in the practice, but also in the theory of the craft.
➢ The writers developed the realistic method of presentation and brought story-telling infinitely closer to the real life as lived by the real people.
➢ With Robert Burns and William Blake coming forth eventually on the scene, the stage were well set for a new generation of poets, the Romantics.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
in fact the narrative focus of the first part. ➢ It is first and foremost a middle class book, offering justification
for the class’ forthcoming rise to pre-dominance in national life. ➢ The book is a typical Puritan tale. ➢ Robinson Crusoe is frequently seen simply as a true-to-life, no
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe ➢ It is the work for which Defoe is remembered by all. ➢ The popular Robinson Crusoe story as people normally know it is
Samuel Richardson (1689-1751)
➢ Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded marks the beginning of conversational manner of narration.
English Literature Chapters 7—8
Key Points in Chapter 7
Movement toward Romanticism
James Thomson Edward Young George Crabbe William Cowper
William Blake
• Introduction • Works
Robert Burns
• Introduction • Works
Movement toward
Romanticism
➢ Extremes tend to provoke a reaction. With Pope and then Samuel Johnson at the helm, the 18th century raged forward with the heroic couplet and almost outlawed other forms.
more and no less, specimen of the ordinary humankind. Bodying forth the sum total of the perseverance and indomitableness of human spirit. It is this quality in the character that remains eternally charming and great.
William Blake (1757-1827)
Works
➢ Songs of Innocence ➢ Songs of Experience
✓ “Infant Joy”
✓ “Infant Sorrow”
✓ “The Blossom”
✓ “The Sick Rose”
✓ “The Lamb”
✓ “The Tiger”
➢ His personal life was turbulent and depressing. He was highstrung and suicidal.
➢ His blank verse proved to be the best of his time.
➢ His major works include the Onley Hymns and The Task, for which he is known and read today.
➢ The two major thematic strands that make up the basic fabric of his poetry include his concern with social events and his mysticism.
➢ Blake was basically a visionary
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Gulliver’s Travels ➢ This is a savage satire in the form of a fabulous
travelogue ➢ The book consists of four parts, each recording one
And fare thee well, my only Luve And fare thee well, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
Key Points in Chapter 8
18th Century Fiction Jonathan Swift
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Works ➢ “A Red Red Rose” ➢ “Tam O’Shanter”
➢ “For A’ That an’ A’ That”
A Red Red Rose
O my Luve's like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That’s sweetly play'd in tune.
Luggnagg, and Japan” ➢ Part IV: “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhunms”
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Introduction
➢ His views on the novel focus on two things of significance to the emerging genre (novel): its realism and its moral aesthetic.
➢ However, from the very outset, some dissenting voices existed and tried to make themselves heard.
➢ There waຫໍສະໝຸດ also the sly but steady assertion of emotion in the age of reason.
✓ “The Divine Image” ✓ “The Human Abstract”
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Introduction ➢ Born into a poor Scottish farmer’s family. He
experienced dire poverty and had close contact with common life and common people. ➢ He is critical of Calvinism and its hypocrisy and rigid morality. ➢ Burns wrote in the Scottish dialect, English, and a medley of the two.
• Works • Gulliver’s Travels
Daniel Defoe
• Introduction • Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
• Aesthetic Theories • Works
Laurence Sterne Tobias Smollett
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)
Works ➢ The Battle of the Books ➢ Tale of a Tub ➢ The Irish Drapier’s Letters
➢ A Modest Proposal
✓ It is one of the most caustic satires ever written in literary history
William Blake
(1757-1827)
Introduction
➢ Blake was an important landmark in between two literary periods, pointing directly to that of Romanticism.
➢ There were two factors in his life that helped to orient his thematic thrust. One was his native sensitivity that enabled him to see visions and develop a kind of mysticism. The other was his contact with some radical people.
voyage to one outlandish “remote” place. ➢ Part I: “A Voyage to Lilliput” ➢ Part II: “A Voyage to Brobdingnag” ➢ Part III: “A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibari, Glubbdubdrib,
➢ His protagonists are common people with real common names and speak as “I”, telling their own stories in the first-person narrative, addressing the readers directly without any mediation, just so as to increase the realistic effect of immediacy and involvement.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry:
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.
18th Century Fiction
➢ 18th century was one in which the novel as a genre prospered not only in the practice, but also in the theory of the craft.
➢ The writers developed the realistic method of presentation and brought story-telling infinitely closer to the real life as lived by the real people.
➢ With Robert Burns and William Blake coming forth eventually on the scene, the stage were well set for a new generation of poets, the Romantics.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
in fact the narrative focus of the first part. ➢ It is first and foremost a middle class book, offering justification
for the class’ forthcoming rise to pre-dominance in national life. ➢ The book is a typical Puritan tale. ➢ Robinson Crusoe is frequently seen simply as a true-to-life, no
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe ➢ It is the work for which Defoe is remembered by all. ➢ The popular Robinson Crusoe story as people normally know it is
Samuel Richardson (1689-1751)
➢ Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded marks the beginning of conversational manner of narration.
English Literature Chapters 7—8
Key Points in Chapter 7
Movement toward Romanticism
James Thomson Edward Young George Crabbe William Cowper
William Blake
• Introduction • Works
Robert Burns
• Introduction • Works
Movement toward
Romanticism
➢ Extremes tend to provoke a reaction. With Pope and then Samuel Johnson at the helm, the 18th century raged forward with the heroic couplet and almost outlawed other forms.
more and no less, specimen of the ordinary humankind. Bodying forth the sum total of the perseverance and indomitableness of human spirit. It is this quality in the character that remains eternally charming and great.
William Blake (1757-1827)
Works
➢ Songs of Innocence ➢ Songs of Experience
✓ “Infant Joy”
✓ “Infant Sorrow”
✓ “The Blossom”
✓ “The Sick Rose”
✓ “The Lamb”
✓ “The Tiger”
➢ His personal life was turbulent and depressing. He was highstrung and suicidal.
➢ His blank verse proved to be the best of his time.
➢ His major works include the Onley Hymns and The Task, for which he is known and read today.
➢ The two major thematic strands that make up the basic fabric of his poetry include his concern with social events and his mysticism.
➢ Blake was basically a visionary