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1、1AbriefintroductiontoThomasHardyandTessoftheD’UrbervillesThomashardywasafamouscriticalrealisticwriterinEngland.TessoftheD’Urbervillesisthemostinfluentialoneofhiswork.1.1AbriefintroductiontoThomashardyandhiswritingfeaturesThomasHardy(1840_1928),oneoftherepresentativesofthe
2、Englishcriticalrealismnovelist,hewasalsoapoet.Heisfamousfornovelsofcharacterandenvironment.HisbirthplacewasinacountrywhichnamedEgdoninthewestland;thisnaturalenvironmentformedthemainenvironmentinthehardy’writes.Hisfatherwasastonecutter,butlikemusic,hisparentspaidmoreattent
3、iononHardy’seducation.Inhischildhood,hereceivedtheeducationfortheology,butwhenhegrewup,heturnedtolearntheliterary.AfterHardyleftschoolhebecameaarchitect’sapprenticein1856.AndthenhewenttoLondontobecomeapostofthebuildingdraftsmanin1862.HealsotookcoursesinLondonUniversity.Hi
4、sliteraturecareerbeganwithpoetry,butduetonothavethegoodfortunetopublishithechangedthematterfornovelcreation.Hisfirsnovelwaspublishedin1871,thecelebratedworkwashisfourthnovelFarFromtheMaddingCrowd(1874),fromthenon,hedroppedconstructindustryanddevotedtothenovelcreation.Hard
5、ywrotenearly20longnovelshislife,themostfamousnovelsareTheMayorofCasterbridge(1886),TessoftheD'Urbervilles(1891),JudetheObscure(1896).Hisworksreflectedthechangedofsocialeconomy,political,moralandtraditionwhenthehypocriticalbourgeoisieinvadedthecountriesinEngland..Asatransi
6、tionalwriter,Hardywasbothinfluencedbyboththepastandthemodern,asaresultheisknownasintellectuallyadvancedandemotionaltraditionalwriter.Inhisnovelsontheonehandheshowedanapparentnostalgicfeelinginhisdescriptionofthesimpleandbeautifulthoughprimitiverurallife,whichwasgraduallyd
7、eclininganddisappearingasEnglandmarchedintoanindustrialcountry.Ontheotherhand,theimmenseimpactofscientificdiscoveriesandmodernphilosophicthoughtsuponmanisquiteobvioustoo,HewasdeeplyinfluencedbyInfluencedbyDarwin’sTheOriginofSpeciesandSpencer’sTheFirstPrinciple,heacceptedt
8、heideaofsurvivalthefittestandbelievedthatman’sfateispredeterminedlytragic,drivenbyacombinedforce