资源描述：
《十八世纪英国文学.ppt》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在教育资源-天天文库。
1、18thCenturyBritishLiterature(1688-1785)Englishrestoration（1660-1688）TheRestorationbeganin1660whentheEnglishmonarchy,ScottishmonarchyandIrishmonarchywererestoredunderCharlesIIaftertheEnglishCivilWar.Thepoliticalrestorationitselfwasmatchedbychangesinliterature:thedramatookonanewleaseoflife,proseficti
2、onmodulatedintothenovelproper,andthepoetsturnedmoreandmoretotheheroiccoupletandtoeffectsofclarity,balance(parallelismandantithesis)andpointedbutunflamboyantwit.(尖刻但不浮夸的才思）Outlineof18thcenturyBritishliterature1688—1730s:newtendencyoftheEnlightenmentideasneo-classicisminpoetrywithAlexanderPopeasthemo
3、stimportantliteraryfigureproseliterature:essaywriting----Addison&Steelenovelwriting----Defoe,Swift1740s---1750s:realisticnovelsofRichardson,Fielding,&Smollett---commonbelief:virtuewilltriumphvicethelastdecadesofthe18thcentury:Enlightenmentideasbegantodecline;sentimentalismandpre-romanticismbegantoe
4、merge.Representativewritersofsentimentalism:Richardson,Sterne,Goldsmith,GrayRepresentativewritersofpre-romanticism:BlakeandBurnsEnlightenmentmovementandNeo-classicismEnlightenmentwasanintellectualmovementdevelopedinWesternEuropeduringthe17thcenturyandreacheditsheightinthe18thcentury.Thecommonelemen
5、twasatrustinhumanreasonasadequatetosolvethecrucialproblemsandtoestablishtheessentialnormsinlife,togetherwiththebeliefthattheapplicationofreasonwasrapidlydissipatingthedarknessofsuperstition,prejudiceandbarbarity,andwasfreeinghumanityfromitsearlierrelianceonmereauthorityandunexaminedtradition.Neocla
6、ssicism:AnIntroductionNeoclassicismdominatedEnglishliteraturefromtheRestorationin1660untiltheendoftheeighteenthcentury,whenthepublicationofLyricalBallads(1798)byWordsworthandColeridgemarkedthefullemergenceofRomanticism.TheNeoclassicalwriters’attitudestowardartandhumanexistence:idealsoforder,logic,r
7、estraint,accuracy,"correctness,""restraint,"decorum,andsoon.ForthesakeofconveniencetheNeoclassicperiodcanbedividedintothreerelativelycoherentparts:theRestorationAge(1660-1700),inwhichMilton,Bunyan,andDryden
