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1、第12页共12页AnanalysisofRebeccainVanityFairbyutilizingthetheoryofNewCriticism1IntroductionVanityFairisThackeray’smasterpiece.ItgivesacomprehensiveviewofEnglishsocietyintheearly19thcentury.Theauthorintendstopaintavividpictureofegoisticandhypocriticalsociet
2、y,andRebeccaistheproductofthisera.ThesubtitleofthebookisANovelwithoutaHero,butRebeccaisalwaysbeenregardedastheheroine,becausetheauthordescribestheruthlessanddarknessofthecapitalsocietybasedonthedescriptionofRebecca’swholelife.1.1TheAuthorandHisWorkTha
3、ckeraywasarepresentativeofcriticalrealisminthe19thcenturyEnglish.HewasborninCalcutta,India,inthefamilyofanEnglishofficial.(ZhaoHongying,2006)Hisfatherdiedwhenhewasthree,andThackeraywassenthometoEnglandin1817.ThackeraywaseducatedatCharterhouse,wherehew
4、asnothappy,andatTrinityCollege,Cambridge.HeleftCambridgeinJune1830withouttakingadegree.Hethentrainedasalawyer,purchasedandeditedaperiodical,theNationalStandardand,whenitfailed,spentaperiodstudyingartinParis,hewaslatertoillustratemuchofhisownwork,inclu
5、dingVanityFair.Hethentookupacareerasajournalist,contributingparticularlytoFraser’sMagazine.In1847,Fraser’sMagazinepublishedthefirstinstallmentofVanityFair,whichbecamehismostpopularandcelebratedwork.Aseachmonthlypartcameout,ecstaticpraisewasheapedonthe
6、book.Thecriticalenthusiasmwasnotentirelyreflectedinthesale,butThackeraywassuddenlyfamous.VanityFairwasThackeray’sfirstmajornovelandmarkedthepeakofhisliterarycareer.Thisbook,completedintheyear1848,wasasocialpanoramaofEnglishupper-middleclasses,satirizi
7、ngtheirheartlessness,snobberyandpretentiousnessattheheightoftheirprosperity.Besidesnovel,Thackeraywroteanumberofballadsandpoems,butheisrememberedanovelist.Itisperhapsunfortunatethat,whereasnosingleDickens,novelcanbesaidtoovershadowtheothers.VanityFair
8、isthe第12页共12页bookwrittenbyThackeraythateveryoneknows,forallhisseriousworkshaveagreatdealtooffer.BecauseofthecriticalandoftensarcasticdescriptionoftheEnglishupper-middleclassofthefirsthalfofthe19thcentury,Thackerayisregardedasoneofthemostoutsta
