unit 5 enjoying novels name: 罗军 number:20030614091
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Unit 5
Enjoying novels
Name:罗军Number:20030614091
Warming up
1.Look at these literary genres. Which do you enjoy most? Why?
Fiction Non-fiction
poetry novels
essays short stories
reports recounts
descriptions
2.Do you like classic or modern literature?
3.Which do you like better, English novels or Chinese novels?
What English novels have you read?
4.Can you say something of the story you like best? Why do you enjoy reading it?
Pre-reading
Can you match the titles of these famous novels to the authors?
Agnes GreyGone with the windTess of the d’UrbevillesDavid CopperfieldJane EyrePride and PrejudiceWuthering HeightsJust So StoriesTo Kill a Mockingbird
Jane AustenCharlotte BronteEmily BronteHarper LeeAnne BronteThomas HardyCharles DickensMargaret MitchellRudyard Kipling
Charles DickensBritish (1812-1870)
Charles Dickens His works•The Pickwick Papers
•Oliver Twist
•The Old Curiosity Shop.
•David Copperfield
•Hard Times
•A Tale of Two Cities
•Great Expectations
•Bleak House
《雾都孤儿》《双城记》《艰难时世》《远大前程》《荒凉山庄》《皮克威克外传》《老古玩店》《大卫 .科波菲尔》
One of the greatest novelist in English literature.
It was the best of Times. It was the worst of Times.
Oliver Twist
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. Her father was a carpenter who rose to be a land agent. When she was a few months old, the family moved to Griff, a ‘cheerful red-brick, ivory-covered house’, and there Eliot spent 21 years of his life among people that he later depicted in her novels.
She was educated at home and in several sc
hools, and developed a strong evangelical pi
ety at Mrs. Wallington’s School at Neneato
n. However, later Eliot rejected her dogmat
ic faith. When her mother died in 1836, she
took charge of the family household. In 184
1 she moved with her father to Coventry, w
here she lived with him until his death in
1849.
During this time she met Charles Bray, a free-thinking Coventry manufacturer. His wife, Caroline (Cara) was the sister of Charles Hennel, the author of a work entitled An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity (1838). The reading of this and other rationalistic works influenced deeply Eliot’s thoughts. After her father's death, Eliot travelled around Europe. She settled in London and took up work as subeditor of Westminster Review.
The three Bronte sisters
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Margaret Mitchell
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Questions: the modern meaning o female problem; women’s liberation . Is there still a Tess around you?There figure Alec, Angel Clare, talker of Tess , are good people.
一百年前的人物在现实社会中的意义，从 Tess 的悲剧看爱情的宿命和幸福的乌托邦。思考该小说对学生的生活指导意义。 Tess 是悲剧的总和，从 Alec 和 Angel 的来往，对女性的看法沿袭了古代的做法。
Thomas Hardy(1840—1928).
Novelist and poet, is one o the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. He was born in Dorset, a southern country of England, which he called Wessex in his books.
Hardy wrote prodigiously. His principal works are the Wessex Novel. i.e. the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. They include “Under the Greenwood Tree”. Far from Madding Crowd. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Jude the obscure.