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1、Charles Dickensthe greatest novelist of the Victorian periodv1.Introductionv2.Dickenss Lifev3.Major Workv4.Characteristics of the novelv5.Literary AchievementCharles John Huffam DickensBorn:7 February 1812 Landport,Portsmouth,Hampshire,England Died:9 June 1870(aged 58)Gads Hill Place,Higham,Kent,Eng

2、land Resting place:Poets Corner,Westminster Abbey Occupation:Writer Nationality：British Big FamilySpouse:CatherineThomsonHogarthChildren:CharlesDickens,Jr.MaryDickensKatePeruginiWalterLandorDickensFrancisDickensAlfredDOrsayTennysonDickensSydneySmithHaldimandDickensHenryFieldingDickensDoraAnnieDicken

3、sEdwardDickensHis LifePortsmouth,Portsmouth,Hampshire Hampshire fatherextravagantextravagant/ikstr vignt/奢侈的 wastefulprison for debtprison for debt blacking blacking factoryfactory(鞋油作坊).unhappiestunhappiest time timerestarted schooling a lawyers office 15shorthand the British Museum Library parliam

4、entary reporter writing career in 1833in 1836in 1836 Sketches by Sketches by BozBoz特写集特写集 married married humorous humorous stories stories firstfirst rank rank without without rest rest apoplexyapoplexy/pppleksipleksi/中中风，脑溢血溢血 Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey Pickwick PapersPickwick Papers匹克威克外匹克

5、威克外传 Major Works Major Works 18361841,youthfuloptimismThisnaiveoptimismischaracteristicofthepetty-bourgeoishumanitariansofhistime.1)Sketches by Boz 特写集特写集,the first book 2)The Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外传匹克威克外传*3.Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿雾都孤儿 *4.Nichols Nickleby*尼古拉斯尼古拉斯尼克尔贝尼克尔贝*5.The Old Curiosity Shop*老古玩店老古玩店*

6、6.Barnaby Rudge*巴巴纳比纳比拉拉奇奇 The first novel of social history The second period of excitement and irritation exposing the corrupting influence of wealth and power,optimism turned into dissatisfaction and irritationO1)American Notes O 美国札记美国札记 O2)Martin Chuzzlewit O 马丁马丁朱述尔维特朱述尔维特 O3)Dombey and SonO 董

7、贝父子董贝父子 O4)David Copperfield 4)David Copperfield O 大卫大卫科波菲尔科波菲尔 his best book his best bookThe third period of intensifying pessimism.showing underlying tone of bitterness,loss of hope for English bourgeois society1)Bleak House 荒凉山庄荒凉山庄 2)Hard Times 艰难时世艰难时世 3)Little Dorrit 小杜丽小杜丽 4)A Tale of Two Ci

8、ties 双城记双城记 Dickenss Dream5)Great Expectations 远大前程远大前程 6)Our Mutual Friend 我们的共同朋友我们的共同朋友 (the worse book)7)Edwin Drood 艾德温艾德温德鲁德之迷德鲁德之迷 (unfinished)Characteristics of the novelThe novel exposes the inhumanity of city life under capitalism.It shows the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppres

9、sors and their agents and the helpless sufferings of the poor and oppressed.Oliver is the only one who emerges happy and successful in the end.The happy ending comes as a result of Dickenss optimistic belief in the inevitable triumph of good over evil.Dickenss birthplaceLiterary Achievements Charles

10、DickensisoneofthegreatestcriticalrealisticwritersoftheVictorianAge.Itishisseriousintentiontoexpose&criticizeinhisworksallthepoverty,injustice,hypocrisy&corruptnesshesawallaroundhim.Inhisworks,Dickenssetsafullmap&alarge-scalecriticismofthe19th-centuryEngland,particularlyLondon.Acombinationofoptimisma

11、boutpeople&realismaboutsocietyisobviousintheseworks.HisrepresentativeworksintheearlyperiodincludeOliverTwist,DavidCopperfield&soon.Dickenss signatureCharlesDickensisamasterstory-tellermasterstory-teller.Hislanguagelanguagecould,inaway,becomparedwithShakespearesShakespeares.Hishumorhumor&witwitseemin

12、exhaustible.Character-portrayalCharacter-portrayalisthemostoutstandingfeatureofhisworks.Hischaracterizationscharacterizationsofofchildchild(OliverTwist,etc.),somegrotesquegrotesquepeople(Fagin,etc.)&somecomicalcomicalpeoplepeople(Mr.Micawber,etc.)aresuperb.Dickensalsoemploysexaggerationexaggerationinhisworks.Dickenssworksarealsocharacterizedbyamixtureofhumorhumor&pathospathos.Thank you