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1、标题：Middle-ClassLifeinVanityFair作者：JohnPeck出版详细信息：English:TheJournaloftheEnglishAssociation43.175(Spring1994):p1-16.来源：NovelsforStudents.Ed.ElizabethThomason.Vol.13.Detroit:Gale,2002.FromLiteratureResourceCenter.文章类型：Criticalessay全文：COPYRIGHT2002GaleGroup,CO
2、PYRIGHT2007Gale,CengageLearning全文：Thisrevoltingreflexofsocietyisliterallytrueenough.Butitdoesnotshewusthewholetruth.Aretherenotwomen,eveninVanityFair,capableofnoblerthingsthanareheresetdownforthem?(RobertBell.Fraser'sMagazine,1848)1.isthereanywomenfornobele
3、rthings?EverywhereweturnintheearlyreviewsofVanityFairweencounterthiskindofcriticism;thereviewersareenthusiasticbutappreciationofthebrillianceofThackeray'sperformanceisalwaysqualifiedbyreservationsabouthisviewofhumannature.Moderncriticshave,ofcourse,movedbey
4、ondthemoralquibblingevidentintheearlyreviews.Essentially,criticismofthenovelnowfollowsoneofthreecourses:thereisappreciationofthecomplexityofitsmoralandsocialvision,orpraiseforThackeray'shandlingofthenarrativevoice,or,andperhapsmostpersuasively,asenseofthedi
5、sturbingdarknessofhisvision.对名利场的现状评论有三点：appreciationofcomplexityofmoralandsocialvision,praiseforthehandlingofthenarrativevoice,asenseofthedisturbingdarknessofhisvision.ThereisnonovelthatthrustsusmorequicklyintoawholesetofassumptionsaboutclassthanVanityFair
6、.Bytheendofthefirstsceneweunderstandmostofthenicetiesandpretensionsofsocialgradation.BarbaraThreeapproachesstudyVanityFair,highlighted.Hardy,identifyingThackerayasaradicalsocialcritic,takesthefirstapproach,seeingthenovelistasawiseandconcernedsocialcommentat
7、or.AllofGordonRay'sworkonThackeray,includinghisbiography,wasinformedbyjustsuchasenseoftheauthor'spurposeandachievement.Thesecondapproach,focusingonthenarrativevoice,ismoreconcernedwithThackeray'sabilitytoteaseanddisturbthereaderbymeansofavoicethatissofullof
8、twistsandturnsthatitallowsusnocomfortorsecurity.A.E.Dyson'sessay,'AnIronyAgainstHeroes',setsthestandardhere,butthesameprincipleunderliesstructuralistanddeconstructivereadingsofThackeray;themostsophisti
