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1、第12页共12页1IntroductionVanityFairisThackeray’smasterpiece.ItgivesacomprehensiveviewofEnglishsocietyintheearly19thcentury.Theauthorintendstopaintavividpictureofegoisticandhypocriticalsociety,andRebeccaistheproductofthisera.ThesubtitleofthebookisANovelwithoutaHero,butRebeccaisal
2、waysbeenregardedastheheroine,becausetheauthordescribestheruthlessanddarknessofthecapitalsocietybasedonthedescriptionofRebecca’swholelife.1.1TheAuthorandHisWorkThackeraywasarepresentativeofcriticalrealisminthe19thcenturyEnglish.HewasborninCalcutta,India,inthefamilyofanEnglish
3、official.(ZhaoHongying,2006)Hisfatherdiedwhenhewasthree,andThackeraywassenthometoEnglandin1817.ThackeraywaseducatedatCharterhouse,wherehewasnothappy,andatTrinityCollege,Cambridge.HeleftCambridgeinJune1830withouttakingadegree.Hethentrainedasalawyer,purchasedandeditedaperiodic
4、al,theNationalStandardand,whenitfailed,spentaperiodstudyingartinParis,hewaslatertoillustratemuchofhisownwork,includingVanityFair.Hethentookupacareerasajournalist,contributingparticularlytoFraser’sMagazine.In1847,Fraser’sMagazinepublishedthefirstinstallmentofVanityFair,whichb
5、ecamehismostpopularandcelebratedwork.Aseachmonthlypartcameout,ecstaticpraisewasheapedonthebook.Thecriticalenthusiasmwasnotentirelyreflectedinthesale,butThackeraywassuddenlyfamous.VanityFairwasThackeray’sfirstmajornovelandmarkedthepeakofhisliterarycareer.Thisbook,completedint
6、heyear1848,wasasocialpanoramaofEnglishupper-middleclasses,satirizingtheirheartlessness,snobberyandpretentiousnessattheheightoftheirprosperity.Besidesnovel,Thackeraywroteanumberofballadsandpoems,butheisrememberedanovelist.Itisperhapsunfortunatethat,whereasnosingleDickens,nove
7、lcanbesaidtoovershadowtheothers.VanityFairisthebookwrittenbyThackeraythateveryoneknows,forallhisseriousworkshaveagreatdealtooffer.BecauseofthecriticalandoftensarcasticdescriptionoftheEnglishupper-middleclassofthefirsthalfofthe19thcentury,Thackerayisregardedasoneofthemost第12页
8、共12页outstandingrepresentativesoftheEnglishcriticalrealism.VanityFaiisThacke
