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1、白玲玲翻译1425102814043TheAgeofEnlightenmentinEngland1688-1798BackgroundInpoliticalarea,Englandisaconstitutionalmonarchy,theParliamentandthecabinetministershavethepower.Inindustrialarea,IndustrialRevolutionchangedthewayofsociallife.Inruralarea:theEnclosure
2、Movement,expropriation,thelandlesspeasants;Incities:workers,newindustrialproletariat;Unbearableconditionsofliferesultedinnumerousuprisings.Classification:1.NeoclassicismPeoplebelievedthattheartisticidealsshouldbeorder,logic,restrainedemotion&accuracy.
3、prose---precise,directandflexible;poetry---lyrical,epical,didactic,satiricordramatic;drama---thethreeunitiesoftime,spaceandaction.2.SentimentalismItcarefullydepictsperson’smoodandtheirmiserablelifesoastoarousereaders’sympathy,reflectingthedisdaintowar
4、dstheactualworldanddeepsympathytotheordinarypeople.Theauthorsusuallyliketousedeath,dark,loneliness,etc,astheirsubject.Theirworksarealwaysmelancholy,obscure,andfullofpessimism.3.ThebeginningofmodernnovelThebourgeoisrealisticnovel.4.Pre-RomanticismPeopl
5、eprotestedagainstthebondageofruleandcustom.Romanticismreturnedtonatureandtoplainhumanityforitsmaterial.Itismarkedbyrenewedinterestinmedievalidealsandliterature,andmarkedbyintensehumansympathy.It白玲玲翻译1425102814043wastheexpressionofindividualgeniusrathe
6、rthanofestablishedrulesandtheexpressioninthe“Gothicnovel”.5.Englishdramainthe18thcenturyAbrieffloweringinthesecondhalfof18century.Early18centuryI.Neoclassicism1.AlexanderPope(1688-1744)Popeisknownasagreatpoetinhisday.Hewasagreatsatiristandaliterarycri
7、ticwhooccupiedaprominentplaceinhistime.Works:(1)Pastorals(2)EssayonCriticism:adidacticpoeminheroicoutliningcriticaltastesandstandards;(3)TheRapeoftheLock(4)TheIliadofHomerTheOdysseyofHomer(half-translated)(5)TheWorksofShakespeare(6)“TheDunciad”asatiri
8、calpoem.(7)“MoralEssays”aphilosophicpoem.(8)“AnEssayonMen”aphilosophicpoem.2.JosephAddison&RichardSteele TheygiveatruepictureofthesociallifeofEnglandinthe18thcentury.Works:(1)TheTatler(2)TheSpectatorII.EnglishNovelistsofRealisticTradition1.D