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1、萨克雷笔下的利倍加1IntroductionVanityFairisThackeray’smasterpiece.ItgivesacomprehensiveviewofEnglishsocietyintheearly19thcentury.Theauthorintendstopaintavividpictureofegoisticandhypocriticalsociety,andRebeccaistheproductofthisera.ThesubtitleofthebookisANovelwithou
2、taHero,butRebeccaisalwaysbeenregardedastheheroine,becausetheauthordescribestheruthlessanddarknessofthecapitalsocietybasedonthedescriptionofRebecca’swholelife.1.1TheAuthorandHisWorkThackeraywasarepresentativeofcriticalrealisminthe19thcenturyEnglish.Hewasbo
3、rninCalcutta,India,inthefamilyofanEnglishofficial.(ZhaoHongying,2006)Hisfatherdiedwhenhewasthree,andThackeraywassenthometoEnglandin1817.ThackeraywaseducatedatCharterhouse,wherehewasnothappy,andatTrinityCollege,Cambridge.HeleftCambridgeinJune1830withouttak
4、ingadegree.Hethentrainedasalawyer,purchasedandeditedaperiodical,theNationalStandardand,whenitfailed,spentaperiodstudyingartinParis,hewaslatertoillustratemuchofhisownwork,includingVanityFair.Hethentookupacareerasajournalist,contributingparticularlytoFraser
5、’sMagazine.In1847,Fraser’sMagazinepublishedthefirstinstallmentofVanityFair,whichbecamehismostpopularandcelebratedwork.Aseachmonthlypartcameout,ecstaticpraisewasheapedonthebook.Thecriticalenthusiasmwasnotentirelyreflectedinthesale,butThackeraywassuddenlyfa
6、mous.VanityFairwasThackeray’sfirstmajornovelandmarkedthepeakofhisliterarycareer.Thisbook,completedintheyear1848,wasasocialpanoramaofEnglishupper-middleclasses,satirizingtheirheartlessness,snobberyandpretentiousnessattheheightoftheirprosperity.Besidesnovel
7、,Thackeraywroteanumberofballadsandpoems,butheisrememberedanovelist.Itisperhapsunfortunatethat,whereasnosingleDickens,novelcanbesaidtoovershadowtheothers.VanityFairisthebookwrittenbyThackeraythateveryoneknows,forallhisseriousworkshaveagreatdealtooffer.Beca
8、useofthecriticalandoftensarcasticdescriptionoftheEnglishupper-middleclassofthefirsthalfofthe19thcentury,ThackerayisregardedasoneofthemostoutstandingrepresentativesoftheEnglishcriticalrealism.VanityFaiisThackeray’sma