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1、BritishSocietyandCultureLectureFour:ArtsandPoliticsXuLeiFiction:leadingformofliteratureinEnglishRegentPeriod(1810-1820):JaneAustenVictorianPeriod(1837-1901):CharlesDickens,WilliamThackeray,GeorgeEliot,Brontës,ThomasHardyetal.JaneAusten(1775-1817)Threeorfourfamilies
2、inacountryvillageistheverythingtoworkon.HerfictionNorthangerAbbey(1798,1818)SenseandSensibility(1795-97,1811)PrideandPrejudice(1795-97,1813)Persuasion(1818)Emma(1815)MansfieldPark(1814)VictorianeraTheperiodcoincideswiththereignofQueenVictoriawhoruledoverEnglandfrom
3、1837to1901.Atimeofrapideconomicdevelopmentaswellasserioussocialproblems.Newinventionsanddiscoveriesinbiology,geologyandanthropologyshookpeople’sreligiousbelief.MainfeaturesofVictorianliteratureDiversity,complexityandabundantwritersandgreatworks.Thenovelbecamethemos
4、tpowerfulexpressionofprogressivethought.Criticalrealists:CharlesDickens,WilliamThackeray,GeorgeEliot,Brontesistersetal.CharlesDickens(1812-1870)OliverTwist(1837-38)DavidCopperfield(1849-50)GreatExpectations(1860-61)HardTimes(1854)ThomasHardy(1840-1928)Novelofcharac
5、terandenvironmentTessoftheD’Urbervilles(1891)JudetheObscure(1895)20thcenturymodernismModernexperienceinanalienatingurban,industrialsocietyRejectionofconventionalformsofrealismInteriorityofcharactersNewtechniques:steamofconsciousness,montage,fragmentationRenovatedco
6、nceptoftimeLeadingfiguresofearly20thcenturyT.S.EliotD.H.LawrenceJamesJoyceVirginiaWoolfJamesJoyce(1882-1941)VirginiaWoolf(1882-1941)Contemporaryliterature:NobelPrizeLaureatesT.S.Eliot(1948)BertrandRussell(1950)WinstonChurchill(1953)SamuelBeckett(1969)WilliamGolding
7、(1983)SeamusHeaney(1995)HaroldPinter(2005)DorisLessing(2007)BritishArtsTheatreMusicArchitectureVisualArtsTheatreLondon:acapitaloftheatres(MapofLondon’sTheatres)e.g.RoyalNationalTheatrethemostfamousactingtroupe:RoyalShakespeareCompanyLeadingoperacomposer:AndrewLloyd
8、Webber(1948-),ageniusmusician.Representativeworks:Cats(1981),ThePhantomoftheOpera(1986) lyric1,2Musicinthepast17thcentury:HenryPurcell18thcentur
