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1、EnglishliteratureIntroductiontoVictorianliteratureLet’stalkTheChangesofSpringFestivalThepreparation:preparefoodseveraldaysbeforetheday,nowsomepeoplepreferfreshfood.Thewayofcommunicating:visitbefore,nowsendmessagesSettingfirecrackers:shoulditbebanned?Weather:warmerthanbefore
2、Revision:lookatthecontentsOldandMedievalRenaissance:Shakespeare,Milton():Defoe,(),()():(),Wordsworth,(),()Victorian:Dickens,Brontesisters,HardynewModernperiod:Shaw,T.S.Eliot,LawrenceTheVictorianLiteraturehistoricalbackgroundVictorianLiteratureHistoricalbackgroundQueenVictor
3、iawastherulerofEnglandfrom1836to1901,soitiscustomarytocallthewritingsproducedduringthislongstretchofyearsVictorianliterature.Itiscommonlydividedinto3phases:the30sand40sthe50sand60sthelast3decadesthe30sand40sReadthesecondparagraphonpage233andfillintheblanks.Theearlyyearsofth
4、eVictorianEnglandwasatimeof__economicdevelopmentaswellas__socialproblems….ForatimeEnglandwasthe“workshopofthe__.”Meanwhile,theworkingconditionswereunimaginablybrutal,especiallyintextilefactoriesandcoalmineswhere__and__werewidelyemployed.the50sand60sReadthesecondparagraphonp
5、age234andfillintheblanks.Duringthenext20years,Englandsettleddowntoatimeof__andrelative__.Themiddle-classlifeofthetimewascharacterizedbyprosperity,respectabilityandmaterial__.Peopleweretryingtoliveuptoanational__of__,respectabilityand__.Thelast3decadesDeclineoftheBritishEmpi
6、reandtheVictorianvaluesIdeologicalbackgroundReadthesecondparagraphonpage235andfindout:theideologicalchangestheVictoriansexperienced:Change1:People’sreligiousconvictionswerechangedby:1)2)Change2:Everythingwasputtothetestbyutility.Forexample,ThebibleThechurchVictorianliteratu
7、reunliketheprevioustwoperiodsofNeoclassicismandRomanticism,therewasnodominantliterarytheoryinVictorianliterature.severalliterarytrendsexistedsidebyside.novels:criticalrealism---mostpopularprose:MatthewArnoldPoetry:RobertBrowning,AlfredTennysonSixfactorsexplaintheriseofnovel
8、sasadominantliterarygenreduringthisperiod:①Thegrowthofurbanpopulation----anewreadi
