charlesDickens课件.ppt

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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1. his life and career
2. his major works
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first period
second period
third period
literary creation &literary achievements
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Portsmouth,
Hampshire
9, Poor
quarter
Family in debt
prison for debt
12, blacking
Factory (鞋油作坊).
happiest
time
1. his life and career
(4, Chatham)
his birth place
Portsmouth,
John Dickens (1785/6-1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863), Charles Dickens's parents.
restarted schooling
a lawyer’s office
15
shorthand
the British
Museum Library
parliamentary
reporter
writing career
1. his life and career
in 1836
Sketches by Boz
《博兹特写集》
married
articles for
humorous
pictures
popular
Worked without
rest
Buried at
Westminster
Abbey, Poet’s Corner
Pickwick Papers
《匹克威克外传》
died at 58
1. his life and career
Group portrait of Charles Dickens, his wife, Catherine (center), and her younger sister ina, engraved by Edward Stodart after the 1843 pencil drawing by Daniel Maclise.
Characteristics of Dickens’ Life
A man of action and business in the world, a student and writer of books
The best shorthand reporter on the London press
The best amateur actor on the stage
A essful periodical editor
Radical in politics and ideology
Concerned about social problems
Faithful to the people, pessimistic to capitalist society, the expression of the conscience of his age
2. his major works (the first period)
1836—1841, first period, Period of youthful optimist: fun, high spirit, naive optimism
At this stage Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding. Dickens thought that the whole social question would be solved if only every employer reformed himself according to the model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels. This naive optimism is characteristic of the petty-bourgeois humanitarians of his time.
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