samuel richardson henry fielding

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,*,Samuel Richardson & Henry Fielding,关茵,.,英翻二,.3210008103,Samuel Richardson,life,The founder of the English domestic novel,Gifted letter writer,Two marriages,All his novels were published in the form of letters.,Major novels and comments,Epistolary novels,Pamela,Virtue rewarded,Clarissa (the History of a Young Lady),(1747-1748) is Richardsons best novel. Clarissa is characterized by its loftly moral tone, sentimentality, and in-depth analysis of the feminine mind.,The History of Sir Charles Grandison,(1753-1754) presented his idea of a true Christian gentelman, the best of man. Not all men are rakes.,Richardsons novels are strongly didactic and,The History of Charles Grandison,is the most glaring example.,Henry Fielding (1707-1754),life experience,born at Sharphan Park, Somerest, educated at Eton College and in law at the University of Leiden.,From 1729 to 1737, a theatrical manager and playwright in London. The most popular play was the farce Tom Thumb(1730),In 1734, married Charlotte Cradock.,In 1740, Justice of the Peace for Westminister from 1748 and for Middle-sex from 1749.,In 1743, Charlotte died, and he married his wifes maid, Mary Danniel in 1747.,In August 1754, he landed at Lisbon and two months later he died.,Major novels and comments,Joseph Andrews (1742) was intended to poke fun at sentimental moralism of Richardsons novel. His creative energy displayed in the first novel initiated his efforts to compose more novels.,The History of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great (1743) is based on the life of a notorious thief, Jonathan Wild. The novel is filled with ironical comments on delinquency, cruelty and hypocrisy.,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) ranks high among English novels.,The unpredictablility of the novel demands the readers constant attention, arouses his curiosity, involves his mental participayion, and impels him to make and ajust judgements.,Fielding broke away from the epistolary methord and broadened the space of his novel by having a panorama of 18th-century life as its background,and by vividly depicting people of different social types.,Amelia （1751）is his last novel, a study of justice and the penal system in England.,Thank you.,