维多利亚时代文学特点3

The characteristics of novels in the Victoria times

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The Reform Billof 1832 gave the middle class the political power it needed to consolidate—and to hold—the economic position it had already achieved. Industry and commerce burgeoned. While the affluence of the middle class increased, the lower classes, throwing off their land and going into the cities to form the great urban working class, lived ever more wretchedly. The social changes were so swift and brutal that Godwin Ian utopianism rapidly gave way to attempts either to justify the new economic and urban conditions, or to change them. The intellectuals and artists of the age had to deal in some way with the upheavals in society, the obvious inequities of abundance for a few and squalor for many, and, emanating from the throne of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), an emphasis on public rectitude and moral propriety.

The Novel

The Victorian era was the great age of the English novel—realistic,thickly plotted,crowded wi th characters,and long.It was the ideal form to describe contemporary life and to entertain the middle class.The novels of Charles Dickens,

Full to overflowing with drama,humor,and an endless variety of vivid characters and plot com plications,nonetheless spares nothing in their portrayal of what urban life was like for all classes. William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for Vanity Fair(1848),which wickedly satirizes hyp ocrisy and greed.

Emily Bront?'s(see Bront?,family)single novel,Wuthering Heights(1847),is a unique masterp

iece propelled by a vision of elemental passions but controlled by an uncompromising artistic sen se.The fine novels of Emily's sister Charlotte Bront?,especially Jane Eyre(1847)and Villette(185 3),are more rooted in convention,but daring in their own ways.The novels of George Eliot(M ary Ann Evans)appeared during the1860s and70s.A woman of great erudition and moral fervo r,Eliot was concerned with ethical conflicts and social problems.George Meredith produced co mic novels noted for their psychological perception.Another novelist of the late

19th cent.Was the prolific Anthony Trollope,famous for sequences of related novels that explor e social,ecclesiastical,and political life in England?

Thomas Hardy's profoundly pessimistic novels are all set in the harsh;punishing Midland County he called Wessex.Samuel Butler produced novels satirizing the Victorian ethos,and Rob ert Louis Stevenson,a master of his craft,wrote arresting adventure fiction and children's verse.T he mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,writing under the name Lewis Carroll,produced t he complex and sophisticated children's classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(1865)and Thr ough the Looking Glass(1871).Lesser novelists of considerable merit include Benjamin Disraeli,G eorge Gissing,Elizabeth Gaskell,and Wilkie Collins.By the end of the period,the novel was cons idered not only the premier form of entertainment but also a primary means of analyzing and of fering solutions to social and political problems.

Nonfiction

Among the Victorian masters of nonfiction were the great Whig historian Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle, the historian, social critic, and prophet whose rhetoric thundered through the age. Influential thinkers included John Stuart Mill, the great liberal scholar and philosopher; Thomas Henry Huxley, a scientist and popularize of Darwinian Theory; and John Henry, Cardinal Newman, who wrote earnestly of religion, philosophy, and education. The founders of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, researched and wrote their books in the free environment of England. The great art historian and critic John Ruskin also concerned himself with social and economic problems. Matthew Arnold's theories of literature and culture laid the foundations for modern literary criticism, and his poetry is also notable.

罗经国《新编英国文学选读》(第4版)教材-第9章 维多利亚时期(1832～1901)【圣才出品】

第9章维多利亚时期(1832～1901) 9.1 复习笔记 Ⅰ. Historical background（历史背景） (1) 1832～1848 The first reform bill—the industrial capitalists gain their power in Parliament. This bill extended the right to vote to the industrial capitalists and the lower middle class, but not the workers. 凭借第一部改革议案，工业资产阶级在议会中赢得了权利。这个议案使工业资产阶级和中下层阶级获得了选举权，但是工人却并没有获得选举权。 (2) In the fifties and sixties（五十年代和六十年代） England had become the workshop of the world and the world’s banker. It was a period of complacency, stability and optimism. 英国成为“世界工厂”和“世界银行”。这个时期的社会稳定发展，人们对未来信心百倍。 (3) In the 1890s（十九世纪九十年代） The 1890s is a period of serenity and security. By 1890, England continued to grow in strength. The British Empire had comprised more than a quarter of all the territory on the surface of the earth. 九十年代是一个安稳而宁静的年代，这个时期，英国的实力持续增长，英国占据了世界四分之一的领土。

English Literature of the Victorian Age 维多利亚时期的英国文学

English Literature of the Victorian Age 1. The Victorian Period: Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of Queen Victoria who ruled over England from1836 to 1901. The period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history. II. Historical Background 1. economy: Industrial Revolution (1760 – 1840) 2. politics: Chartist movement (1838 – 1848) 宪章运动 3. science: Darwin’s theory of evolution(1859) 4. society: the women question Queen Victoria ( 1837 – 1901) The early years of the Victorian England was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems. III. Critical Realism 1. definition----English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the 40s and in the early 50s. It found its expression in the form of novel. The critical realists, most of whom were novelists, described with much vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. 2. Features: Victorian literature, as a product of its age, naturally took on its quality of magnitude & diversity. It was many-sided & complex, & reflected both romantically & realistically the great changes that were going on in people’s life & thought. Great writers & great works abounded. a. introduction of characters from the working class b. strong hatred for vices in the society c. an illusion of bringing about social justice and harmony by reforms d. an interest in woman emancipation (Charlotte Bronte) 3. Representatives: Charles Dickens; William Thackeray etc. 4. Features of Victorian novels In this period，the novel became the most widely read & the most vital & challenging expression of progressive thought. While sticking to the principle of faithful representation of the 18th-century realist novel, novelists in this period carried their duty forward to the criticism of the society & the defense of the mass. Although writing from different points of view & with different techniques, they shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about the fate of the common people. They were angry at the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality as represented by the money-worship & Utilitarianism & the widespread misery, poverty & injustice. Their truthful depiction of people’s life & bitter & strong criticism of the society had done much in awakening the public consciousness to the social problems & in the actual improvement of the society. Victorian literature, in general, truthfully represents the reality & spirit of the age. The high-spirited vitality, the down-to-earth earnestness, the good-natured humor & unbounded imagination are all unprecedented. In almost every genre it paved the way for the coming century, where its spirits, values & experiments are to witness their bumper harvest.

英国维多利亚时期

Chapter 4 The Victorian Period 一。学习目的和要求 通过本章的学习，对19世纪维多利亚时代英国的政治，经济，历史，文化背景，对维多利亚时代的诗歌，散文，小说在创作思想上的进步和创作技巧上的改革，以及对该时代主要作家的生平，观点，创作旨意，艺术品特点及其代表作的主题，结构，语言，人物刻画等都有一个全面的了解。并通过作品选读加深体会感受，增强对作品的理解和鉴赏能力。 二。考核要求 (一) 维多利亚时期概述 1. 识记：(1)维多利亚时期的界定 (2)社会政治，经济，文化背景。 2. 领会：(1)维多利亚时期的文学特点 (2)批判现实主义小说对后世文学的影响。 3. 应用：宪章运动，功利主义，批判现实主义，戏剧独自等名词的解释 (二) 该时期的重要作家 1. 一般识记：重要作家的生平与创作生涯 2. 识记：重要作品及主要内容 3. 领会：重要作家的创作思想，艺术特色及其代表作品的主题思想，人物塑造，语言风格，社会意义等。

4. 应用：(1)狄更斯和萨克雷作品的批判现实主义思想及各自的创作手法，艺术特色。 (2)小说《简.爱》，《呼啸山庄》的主题思想与人物塑造。 (3)“我逝去的公爵夫”;中的戏剧独白。 (4)乔泊.艾略特和哈代小说中环境，氛围描述与人物内世界的展示。 A. Introduction to the Victorian Period 1. 识记 (1) Definition： the Victorian Period Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of Queen Victoria who ruled over England from 1836 to 1901. The period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history. (2) Political， Economical & Cultural Background The early years of the Victorian England was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems. After the Reform Bill of 1832 passed the political power from the decaying aristocrats into the hands of the middle-class industrial capitalists， the Industrial Revolution soon geared up. Towards the mid-century，England had reached its highest point of development as a world power. And yet beneath the great prosperity & richness， there existed widespread poverty & wretchedness among the working class. The worsening living & working conditions， the mass unemployment & the new Poor Law of 1834 with its workhouse system finally gave rise to the Chartist Movement (1836-1848)。

维多利亚时代文化

维多利亚时代是英国发展史上迅猛上升的时期。大英帝国的经济实力空前强大，势力范围迅速扩张。从殖民地掠夺的财富源源不断的流入英国，这似乎是现实世界理所当然的一部分，也许是许多维多利亚文学作品的背景。从《简·爱》(Jane Eyre,1847)中女主人公意外地继承叔叔在马地拉给她流下的两万磅的遗产，到《远大前程》(Great Expectations,1861)中失意后的匹普去埃及经营茶叶，到《名利场》(Vanity Fair,1848)中的利蓓卡第一次施展身手就勾引从印度回国的财主乔瑟夫，人们不难看出，当时去殖民地捞钱是本国人民公认有效的“生财之道”。总之，这是一个充满了机会的时代，是一个能让人梦想“远大前程”的自信的年代。有的评论家，如斯坦纳(Steiner)，认为维多利亚的黄金时代像伊甸园，20世纪初的某些评论家则认为它像地狱。一般来说，为研究方便。维多利亚时期被文史家们分为三个阶段：维多利亚早期（1832~1848）、维多利亚中期（1848~1870）和维多利亚晚期（1970~1891）。 维多利亚早期也常被称为“多事之秋”(A Time of Troubles)。经济上的繁荣并不能阻止阶级矛盾的产生。就在新兴资产阶级奇迹般地暴富起来时，劳动者却不得不在残酷的压迫下过着穷困的生活。这一时期反抗压迫、争取民主选举权的运动蓬勃发展，在“宪章派”诗人的作品中得到忠实反映，最有代表性的有欧内斯特·琼斯(Ernest Jones,1819~1869)的《民主之歌》(The Songs of Democracy)。散文家托马斯·卡莱尔( Thomas Carlyle,1795~1881)的《法国大革命》(The French Revolution,1837)和《过去与现在》(Past and Present,1843)，小说家伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔(Elizabeth Gaskell,1810~1865)的《南方与北方》(North and South,1855)都在一定程度上揭示了金钱拜物教和市侩主义对人类道德的腐蚀，而狄更斯(Charles Dickens,1812~1870)在他早期的小说中更是不遗余力地反映了英国私有制社会的阴暗面。 维多利亚中期正好处于相对稳定的五六十年代，科学技术飞速发展，天文、地理和生物学等学科的新成果大大扩展了人类的眼界。这一时期被称为“经济繁荣和宗教分歧的时期（Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy）”。达尔文的《物种起源》(The Origin of Species)提出的进化论打破了上帝造物的唯心史观，给传统信仰以猛烈的冲击，人们不得不重新认识自己并再次定位；英国国教的势力衰减，新教派林立，福音派吸引了大批小生产者，知识界的所谓“牛津运动”(The Oxford Movement)或“高教派”(High Church)也激烈展开，引起了强烈的反响甚至天主教势力的抬头。尽管勤奋和富有责任感仍为这一时期的主要价值取向，但全社会都在经历着一场信仰危机。许多文人学者对英国状况深感忧虑。狄更斯等一大批作家继续对维多利亚社会的弊端进行批判。最激烈的一位莫过于约翰·罗斯金(John Ruskin,1819~1900)，他的《威尼斯之石》(The Stones of Venice,1851~1853)预言了维多利亚工商业文明的毁灭，在《直到最后》(Unto the Last,1862)中对自由竟争的经济法则进行了无情攻击。较为客观的要数安索内·特罗洛普(Anthony Trollope,1815~1882)的小说。教育家马修·阿诺德(Mathew Arnold,1822~1888)在他的著名论著《文化与无政府》(Culture and Anarchy,1869)中，反对对物质的迷信，提倡文化和精神价值。他对英国社会状况的反思代表了一代有识之士面对新现实的焦虑和危机感。尽管这个时期存在许多问题，但它仍然是一个繁荣时期。因为它不仅创造了惊人的物质财富，同时也是各种文学样式，尤其是长篇小说发展的黄金时代。

维多利亚时代文学作品

课程名称：英国文学史及选读 教师姓名：谢群李晶 编写时间：2007――2008年度第一学期 使用教材：新编英国文学教程，彭家海主编，华中科技大学出版社，2006年4月第1版 授课对象：英语专业0601、0602、0603、0604班学生

Teaching Plan for Unit 11 The Victorian Age (3) Teaching objectives 1.Students should be clear about the literature in The Victorian Age II.Teaching Strategies 1. Use student-centered teaching method to guide students in their learning; encourage students think themselves and participate in class activities actively. 2.Through group work or discussion in pairs to devel op students’ communicative ability. 3.Encourage students to find related information through Internet or other references to develop their self-study ability. III.T eaching Aims: 1.To provide the learners with a brief outline of the history of British literature up to the end of 19th century; 2.To introduce the learners to imaginative use of English and to help them towards an appreciation of literary language and literature; 3.To consolidate and extend the learners’ knowledge and fluency in English through interaction with literary texts; 4.To further develop the learners’ ability to recognize and express emotional and moral attitudes on a higher level than about daily occurrences so as to facilitate their communication with educated native speakers; 5.To prepare the learners for the study of literature in English at a higher level and to help them to develop interest in and, hopefully, the habit of，reading extensively. IV.Time Allocation Introduction to the Victorian Age…………… 1 period Text Study of Charles Dickens Great Expectations…………………. 1 period V.Teaching Methods ●lectures on the related historical and cultural background ●textual study ●class discussion or presentation ●reading assignment before each class ●group work ●research work for the term paper

维多利亚时期文学作品中的女性意识

最新英语专业全英原创毕业论文，都是近期写作 1 英文征婚广告和中文征婚广告所体现的文化差异 2 《野性的呼唤》中的自然主义 3 精神危机下的自我救赎－－对索尔贝娄《赫索格》中社会异化与身份认同的解读 4 从功能对等和文化语境差异角度看商务英语翻译技巧 5 浅析中西价值观差异对跨文化交际的影响及其解决方法 6 自然主义在《海狼》中的表现 7 论性别歧视 8 中美学校教育对比——学生个性发展方面 9 英汉基本颜色词的文化差异及其翻译策略 10 《抽彩》和《蝇王》的艺术魅力比较 11 从女性主义分析《红字》与《傲慢与偏见》 12 从妇女主义视角看《紫色》中西丽的成长 13 《麦克白》的独白 14 中英动物习语使用和翻译的差异研究 15 English to Chinese Translation Methods 16 Influence, Barriers and Soft Cultural Power in Cross-cultural Communication 17 游戏在小学英语教学中的运用 18 从文化角度谈美国俚语的汉译 19 Contradiction of Hawthorne Reflected in the Symbols and Images in Young Goodman Brown 20 福斯特《霍华德庄园》中的三个世界 21 论斯嘉丽的形象特征分析 22 《儿子与情人》恋母情结分析 23 A Study on the Cross-Cultural Management in the Sino-American Joint-Venture Enterprises －－With Special Reference to Changan & Ford Motor Company 24 探析《愤怒的葡萄》中人性的力量 25 《推销员之死》中男主人公悲剧命运分析 26 从《麦琪的礼物》和《爱的牺牲》分析欧?亨利的写作特色 27 中西服饰文化差异对语言的影响 28 英汉称赞语回应的对比研究 29 《太阳照常升起》中科恩屡遭排斥的根源分析 30 浅析“欧亨利式结尾”在其小说中的主题揭示 31 浅析英语新闻标题特点及其翻译技巧 32 语用移情及其在英语学习中的运用 33 普通话对英语语音的迁移作用 34 论修辞格在英语广告中的运用 35 词汇教学法在中学英语教学实践中的应用 36 目的论视角下《了不起的盖茨比》两个译本对比研究 37 旅游与文化 38 英汉礼貌用语及交际策略的对比分析 39 文化视野下的中美家庭教育方法的比较 40 An Analysis of The Woman Warrior from the Perspective of Construction of Discrete Identity in Chinese American Community

维多利亚时期服饰特点

维多利亚风格服饰（Victorian Fashion） 维多利亚风格指1837年至1901年间，英国维多利亚女王在位期间的服饰风格风情，以唯美，高贵,雅致为主旋律 大体来说，维多利亚时代就是一个以烦琐体现优雅高贵的时代吧…… 我从各个年代的服饰变化角度切入 1825-1850 这个时期两性服裝的潮流到达一种荒谬的定点。男性服装清一色是未经装饰的黑色烟管状服裝；女性则持续使用裙撑架，利用褶皱及蕾丝等把自己过度装饰得像个会走路的婚礼蛋糕。由于缝纫机的发明，还有打版书和系统的散播，这个时期不论男人和女人的服裝都变的更为复杂。虽然男人的衣服外在看來简单却需要更复杂的剪裁来使服装线条更为贴近身体线条。 接下来重点介绍女性服饰的演变。 无论英国或西欧，再度流行起蓬松的袖摆如下图： 1840年才是有真正的维多利亚风格 此时女性的裙子又变得宽大(当然不如18世纪那麼宽)裙子并不需要刻意填充以使其膨胀，虽然也会显得丰满，但是大体上还是与自然体型相当。之后衬裙变得很沉重而且不灵活。

先从袖子谈起， 维多利亚女性的上衣其实已经具备现代女装的特色 长长的窄袖、披肩、封闭式的外衣 18世纪洛可可时代的女装，其实是开放式的外套，并且裸露裏头的低胸束腰。 这点在道德观念严密的维多利亚，是非常要不得的。 ↑洛可可时代 因此你可以看到，维多利亚女人们的上衣都是 一体成形的罩衫 最明显的改变莫过於花纹 19世纪流行的风潮，其实把装饰都留给了花边 反而在布料染色跟绣花上的功夫，其实比较简约

1850年代，19世紀女性服裝的体态轮廓，在50年代为「半球型」 这时的洛可可的气息几乎消失得无影无踪 受到家庭的道德观影响，女人们的衣著色调变得更深，更素雅 并且全身色系相当统一。 1850年代，女性采用Hoop Skirt(或称作Crinoline)取代以往又重又热又大又不卫生的衬裙，使得她们的双脚有更多活动的自由，而她们对于這服装上一点小小的改革感到滿足。这种Hoop Skirt可能会露出女性的双脚，因此她们必须采用The Bloomer Costume內搭的长裤，而且在初期这些裙撑架是以坚固的铁制成的，这种服饰使男性受到惊吓并企图阻止这样的流行继续下去，他们毫不留情的在报纸及公开场合等利用各种方式来嘲笑这种流行趋势。Hoop Skirt的好处使得大多数女性不顾父亲及丈夫的放对，Hoop Skirt 的材料也很快地从坚固的铁制成到有弹性的钢丝，这使得裙子可以越來越轻。到了1850年代中期，时髦的裙子需要圈环或者钢箍撑起来，膨胀得很厉害。在当时的幽默或者讽刺杂志上时常可以见到嘲讽的图画。这时期裙子的膨大化是靠穿数层衬裙来实现的，一般至少重叠四到六层衬裙。女装的下半部越来越沉重。但是圈环裙的流行并没有持续多久，许多女性并不喜欢。维多利亚女王也从没穿过这样的裙子。这一样式脱离实际，非常不便，而且显得不庄重（会有暴露内衣的危险）。 在1850-1865年间，女性服饰的轮廓变得更大和趋于水平线在过去所有的线条都是向下拉的。如图： 1860年到了1860年代末期，圈环裙就被淘汰了。 和1850年代最大的差别还是裙摆的宽度 已经宽大到都可以拖地了

Chapter VIII Modernist English Literature维多利亚时期英国文学 (Word版)

Chapter Eight English Modernist Literature I.Historical Background 1.Social and Political Background: the influences of the two world wars (1)World War I weakened the British Empire and World War II marked the last stage of the disintegration of the British Empire. (2)The two world wars not only brought economic dislocation but also spiritual disillusionment to the English people, inspiring cynical post-war works. (3)Development in human rights: The Education Act in 1870 (the encouragement of elementary education compulsory and universal resulting in the steadily growing rate of literacy among the masses) and the Married Women’s Property Act in 1882 (first wave of feminist movement; higher education and suffrage for women) 2.Cultural Background: (1)Spiritual crisis: Owing to the two wars, skepticism and distrust spread in the modern Western civilization, leading to prevalent despair and despondency. (2)Ideologically: many kinds of pessimism and determinism (naturalism & fatalism); a.In natural science: the development of Darwin’s theory of evolution (the survival of the fittest; natural selection in the world); Einstein’s theory of relativity b.In social science: Karl Marx’s scientific socialism(the fundamental contradictions within the capitalist system—and that the workers were anything but free); Nietszche’s theory of irrationalism; Sartre’s theory of existentialism; Schopenhauer’s theory of Will; Bergson’s irrational philosophy; Sigmund Freud’s analytical psychology (the unconscious theory) (resulting in the emphasis on individual subjective experience, the rejection and revolt against rationalism, materialism and positivism, the negation of the "practical" philosophical ideas and the Realist political and aesthetic ideology) (3)Culturally: questioning of and challenge to the previous optimism, the bourgeois conservative values, the axioms of the Victorian Age, the progress of civilization; the reflections on a new definition of the meaning of existence; (4)Artistically: Changes that resulted from social, political, and economic forces and occurred across a wide range of scientific and cultural pursuits (industrialization and urbanization) call for the rejection of traditional aesthetic forms to serve the presentation of the new realm of subject matter followed by innovations in artistic form (impressionism in art, symbolism in literature as two schools of avant-garde appearing in the middle of the 19th century, encouraged by aestheticism) II.Modernism: An Overview a.Modernist literature is a predominantly European movement beginning in the early 20th century that was characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. b.Generally speaking, modernism is the result of the spiritual crises that took place in the capitalist world around the two world wars, especially after the First World

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六．维多利亚时期（Victorian Era 1837年—1901年） 查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens） 杰出的小说家，批判现实主义（Critical Realism）的代表人物。代表作《波兹特写》（Sketches by Boz），《匹克维克外传》（The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club），《雾都孤儿》（Oliver Twist），《老古玩店》（The Old Curiosity Shop），《美国札记》（American Notes），《董贝父子》（Dombey and Son），《大卫·科波菲尔》（David Copperfield），《荒凉山庄》（Bleak House），《艰难时世》（Hard Times），《双城记》（A Tale of Two Cities），《远大前程》（Great Expectations）。 威廉·麦克皮斯·萨克雷（William Makepeace Thackeray）： 杰出的批判现实主义（Critical Realism）的小说家。代表作长篇小说《名利场》（Vanity Fair），《亨利·艾斯蒙德》（Henry Esmond），《纽可姆一家》（The Newcomers）。 勃朗特三姐妹（The Bronte Sisters）： 夏洛特·勃朗特（Charlotte Bronte）的《简爱》（Jane Eyre）；艾米丽·勃朗特（Emily Bronte）的《呼啸山庄》（Wuthering Heights）；安尼·勃朗特（Anne Bronte）的《安格尼斯·格雷》（Agnes Grey）。 乔治·艾略特（George Eliot）： 著名的现实主义女作家。代表作《亚当·比德》（Adam Bede），《弗罗斯河上的磨坊》（The Mill on the Floss），《织工马南》（Silas Marner），《米德尔马契》（Middlemarch—A Study of Provincial Life）。 盖斯凯尔夫人（Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell）： 现实主义作家，代表作《玛丽·巴顿》（Marry Barton），《南方与北方》(North and South)《夏洛特·勃朗特传》（Life of Charlotte Bronte）。 乔治·梅瑞迪斯（George Meredith）： 小说家，代表作《理查德·法弗尔的苦难》（The Ordeal of Richard Feverel）。 托马斯·哈代（Thomas Hardy）： 伟大的小说家，诗人。代表作《德伯家的苔丝》（Tess of the D’Urbervilles），《无名的裘德》（Jude the Obscure），《远离尘嚣》（Far From the Madding Crowd），《还乡》（The Return of the Native），《卡斯特桥市长》（The Mayor of Casterbridge），《威赛克斯故事集》（Wessex Tales），《人生小讽刺》（Life’s Little Ironies），诗歌《列王》（The Dynasts）。 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森（Robert Louis Stevenson）：

维多利亚时代女性的标准

维多利亚时代女性的标准 此文主要从三个方面介绍了维多利亚女性特点。 首先文章介绍了十九世纪兴起的女权主义运动，从运动的起因，过程和特点阐述分析维多利亚时代女性的特征。然后，文章描述了英国文学界的一次女性创作高峰，即维多利亚时代女性写作的兴起。在这个部分，文章对女性写作兴起的原因，女性作家写作特色进行了分析。最后，文章讲述了维多利亚时代贵族女性的特点，从政治，经济，婚姻三个方面对她们的生活状况进行了大体描述。 关于维多利亚时代女性，不得不说到女权主义（ｆｅｍｉｎｉｓｍ）运动。西方的女权主义发展分为三个阶段，第一个阶段即发生在维多利亚时期，和工业**同步，也就是１９世纪下半叶。 在１９世纪以前，女性社会地位身份低下，尤其是已婚女子，被认为只是男性的附属品，几乎失去了自由，存在感十分微弱。女性不能做自己喜欢的工作，她们的活动范围基本被局限在家庭，社交场合，因而女性的创造力也受到了压制和忽视。女性在社会显然处于弱势，可是女性并没有因为弱小而收到保护，恰恰相反，在家庭或者公共场所，女性常常受到攻击和骚扰。由此看来，当时的女性面临着自我意识的觉醒问题，当女性渐渐意识到只有依靠自己的奋斗才可能获得成功，获得社会的认可时，女权主义运动也就顺着历史的潮流产生了。维多利亚时代早期，下层劳动女性为了面包而工作，广大中产阶级女性为了权力而斗争。由于劳动女性斗争意识的增长和女权主义的呼吁，英国制定了保护妇女和儿童的法律。维多利亚时代中期，这一阶段的斗争主要采取了请愿的方式，广大女性纷纷组织社会团体，上街进行宣传讲演，在社会上扩大女权运动的影响，给议会施加压力，以迫使议会通过女性的要求。

女权运动在进入维多利亚时代晚期之初，依然延续着维多利亚时代中期的斗争方式，主要采取舆论宣传，组织请愿等方式。１９世纪８０年代，相续出现一批女权运动的团体。到１８９４年时，女性争取参政权的斗争有了一定效果，已婚妇女获得了在地方上的选举权。在女王去世的的头两年，一些激进的女权运动者认为通过和平请愿获得参政权力的方式已经过时，一些女权组织开始使用暴力手段进行抗议，运动更加激进化。但不论采取什么运动方式，直至维多利亚时代结束，女性的参政要求也没有被议会通过。分析维多利亚时代的女性参政运动，不难发现，运动的参与者大多是中、下层女性，尤其是中产阶级女性，她们由于家庭生活水平的提高，获得了学习的机会，她们中的一些人在学习中逐渐认识到她们作为中产阶级女性的权力的缺失，于是首先起来进行抗议。在她们的宣传影响下，更多的中、下层女性参与到运动中来，女权运动逐步发展壮大。 女权主义运动使得维多利亚时代的女性敢于发出自己的声音和请求，在维多利亚时代，还有一个典型的特征便是女性作家的兴起。 女性作家的兴起做主要的体现是女性写作在小说领域的兴起与发展。十九世纪以前，小说一度被当做是难登大雅之堂的文学创作形式，当时的文学形式以诗歌创作为主，出现了很多大家耳熟能详的浪漫主义诗人，如约翰济慈，雪莱，拜伦等等。而此时的诗歌领域，注定了只是男人们驰骋的疆场，因为浪漫主义诗人都是有机会大量接触拉丁文、腊文和古典文学成就的、有一定经济基础的能接受正规高等教育的男人们。从十八世纪后期英国多产的女小说家简奥斯丁开始，随后出现了勃朗特姐妹，盖斯凯尔夫人和乔治艾略等等，形成了英国文学史上第一次女性创作文学的高峰。

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I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. chapter 18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. A.poetry B.drama C.prose D.epic prose (024) 18. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______, exposing all kinds of social evils. A. revolutionaries B. idealists C. critics D. defenders(044) 16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________. A. plays B. novels C. poems D. essays (047) 14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?（）4 A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice. C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style. (057) D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality. 18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______． A. the fate of the upper class B. the reformation of the government C. the fate of the common people D. the future of their family clans(087) 1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____. 3 A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Protestant Reformation C. The Enlightenment Movement D. The Chartist Movement （097） 13. In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. 2 A. poetry B. novel C. prose D. drama（097） 14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______. 1 A. England was the “workshop of the world”. B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social