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1、湖南商学院学年论文ThomasHardy’sAmbivalentAttitudeTowardsModernizationShownintheMajorCharactersinFarfromtheMaddingCrowd1IntroductionFarfromtheMaddingCrowd(1874)waswrittenbyBritishwriterThomasHardywhowasoneofthemostprominentnovelistsduringthelaterperiodofVictoriaAge.Thisbooknotonl
2、ywonhimworldrenown.Itssuccessalsoencouragedthismodestandself-effacingmantowritemoremasterpieces,mostofwhichbelongedtocanonsofworldliterature.OnJune2,1840,Hardywasborntoafamilyinwhichthefatherwasastonemasonandthemotherwasawell-educatedwoman.Whenhewasachild,helivedintheco
3、untrysideinDorset,England.Thefamilyinsisteduponhiseducationathomeforhispoorhealth.Childashewas,thetranquilcountrycomfortgraduallyinstilledintohimtheloveandrespectfornature.Nevertheless,inordertofurtherhisstudyofarchitecturewhichhewasapprenticedtolearnat16,hewenttoLondon
4、andworkedasanarchitectuntilhegotmarried.ThoughThomasHardywasmostfamousforhisnovels,hisoriginalinterestlayinpoetry,whichmaybeasurpriseforthosewhoonlyreadhisnovels.However,beingasensitiveman,hegaveupwritingpoemswhenhisfirstpublishedpoemswereseverelycriticized.Then,hepicke
5、dupwritingnovels.HisnovelDesperateRemedies(1871)wasatragicfailure.Undaunted,hethencontinuedtowritetwonovels,UndertheGreenWoodTree(1872)andAPairofBlueEyes(1873),whosesmallsuccessinfusedconfidenceintohimandledhimtowritehisfirstmasterpiece,namely,FarfromtheMaddingCrowd(187
6、4),whichalmostgainedhimuniversalacclaim.Afterthathewroteaseriesofdifferentnovels.Among第28页共28页湖南商学院学年论文them,TessoftheD’Urbervilles(1891)wasthemostfamousbutcontroversialforitsbluntdefianceoftheorthodoxyinVictoriaAge.Moreover,thefollowingmasterpieceJudetheObscure(1895)was
7、cruellycriticizedasfilthyforitsbolddescriptionoferoticscenes.Againdiscouragedandbadlyhurt,hedivertedhispassionfromnovelbacktopoemswhichwerealwayshisfavorites.HardylivedinthelateryearsoftheVictorianAgeduringwhichalotofgreatissuessproutedandchangedtheworldtremendously.The
8、GreatExhibitionbecamethefirstWorld’sFairin1851.CharlesDarwin’sbookOntheOriginofSpecies(1859)seemedtochallengeG
