Enlightenment 英国文学史启蒙运动
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Like the French Revolution, the Enlightenment has “long been hailed as the foundation of modern Western political and intellectual culture”.[83] Not surprisingly then, it has been frequently linked to the Revolution of 1789. However, as Roger Chartier points out, it was perhaps the Revolution that “invented the Enlightenment by attempting to root its legitimacy in a corpus of texts and founding authors reconciled and united ... by their preparation of a rupture with the old world”.[84] In other words, the revolutionaries elevated to heroic status those philosophers, such as Voltaire and Rousseau, who could be used to justify their radical break with the Old Regime. In any case, two nineteenth-century historians of the Enlightenment, Hippolyte Taine and Alexis de Tocqueville, did much to solidly this link of Enlightenment causing revolution and the intellectual perception of the Enlightenment itself.In his l Régime (1876), Hippolyte Taine traced the roots of the French Revolution back to French Classicism. However, this was not without the help of the “scientific view of the world *of the Enlightenment+”, which wore down the “monarchical and religious dogma o f the old regime”.[85] In other words then, Taine was only interested in the Enlightenment insofar as it advanced scientific discourse and transmitted what he perceived to be the intellectual legacy of French classicism. Alexis de Tocqueville painted a more elaborate picture of the Enlightenment inL'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1850). For de Tocqueville, the Revolution was the inevitable result of the radical opposition created in the eighteenth century between the monarchy and the men of letters of the Enlightenment. These men of letters constituted a sort of “substitute aristocracy that was both all-powerful and without real power”. This illusory power came from the rise of “public opinion”, born when absolutist centralization removed the nobility and the bourgeosie from the political sphere. The “literary politics” that resulted pr omoted a discourse of equality and was hence in fundamental opposition to the monarchical regime.[86]From a historiographical point of view, de Tocqueville presents an interesting case. He was primarily concerned with the workings of political power under the Old Regime and the philosophical principles of the men of letters. However, there is a distinctly social quality to his analysis. In the words of Chartier, de Tocqueville “clearly designates ... the cultural effects of transformation in the forms of the exercise of power”.[87] Nevertheless, for a serious cultural approach, one has to wait another century for the work of historians such as Robert Darnton (The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 – published in 1979).In the meantime, though, intellectual history remained the dominant historiographical trend. Ernst Cassirer is a perfect example, writing in his The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932 – English translation 1951) that the Enlightenment was “ a part and a special phase of that whole intellectual development through which modern philosophic thought gained its characteristicself-confidence and self-consciousness”. Borrowing from Kant, he states that Enlightenment was/is the process by which the spirit “achieves cla rity and depth in its understanding of its own nature and destiny, and of its own fundamental character and mission”.[88] In short, the Enlightenment was a series of philosophical, scientific and otherwise intellectual developments that took place mostly in the eighteenth century – the birthplace of intellectual modernity.Only in the 1970s did interpretation of the Enlightenment allow for a more heterogeneous and even extra-European vision. A. Owen Aldridge demonstrated how Enlightenment ideas spread to Spanish colonies and how they interacted with indigenous cultures, while Franco Venturi explored how the Enlightenment took place in normally unstudied areas – Italy, Greece, the Balkans, Poland, Hungary, and Russia.[89]More than any other, however it is Robert Darnton who most radically changed Enlightenment historiography.[citation needed] Consider, for example, the following citation from The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982) :“Perhaps the Enlightenment was a more down-to-earth affair than the rarefied climate of opinion described by textbook writers, and we should question the overly highbrow, overly metaphysical view of intellectual life in the eighteenth century.”[90]Indeed, in this book, Darnton examines the underbelly of the French book industry in the eighteenth century, examining the world of book smuggling and the lives of those writers (the “Grub Street Hacks”) who never met the success of their philosophe cousins. In short, rather than concerning himself with Enlightenment canon, Darnton studies “what Frenchmen wanted to read”, and who wrote, published and distributed it.[91] Similarly, in The Business of Enlightenment. A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie 1775-1800, Darnton states that there is no need to further study the encyclopedia itself, as “the book has been analyzed and anthologized dozen of times: to recapitulate all the studies of its intellectual content would be redundant”.[92] He instead, as the title of the book suggests, examines the social conditions that brought about the production of the Encyclopédie. This is representative of the social interpretation as a whole – an examination of the social conditions that brought about Enlightenment ideas rather than a study of the ideas themselves.The work of Jürgen Habermas was central to this emerging social interpretation, although his seminal work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (published under the title Strukturwandel der Öffentlicheit in 1962) was only translated into English in 1989. The book outlines the creation of the “bourgeois public sphere” in eighteenth century Europe. Essentially, this public sphere describes the new venues and modes of communication allowing for rational exchange that appeared in the eighteenth century. Habermas argued that the public sphere was bourgeois, egalitarian, rational, and independent from the state, making it the idealvenue for intellectuals to critically examine contemporary politics and society, away from the interference of established authority.Habermas's work, though influential, has come under criticism on all fronts. While the public sphere is generally an integral component of social interpretations of the Enlightenment, numerous historians have brought into question whether the public sphere was bourgeois, oppositional to the state, independent from the state, or egalitarian.[93]These historiographical developments have done much to open up the study of Enlightenment to a multiplicity of interpretations. In A Social History of Truth (1994), for example, Steven Shapin makes the largely sociological argument that, in seventeenth-century England, the mode of sociability known as civility became the primary discourse of truth; for a statement to have the potential to be considered true, it had to be expressed according to the rules of civil society.Feminist interpretations have also appeared, with Dena Goodman being one notable example. In The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994), Goodman argues that many women in fact played an essential part in the French Enlightenment, due to the role they played as salonnières in Parisians salons. These salons “became the civil working spaces of the project of Enlightenment” and women, as salonnières, were “the legitimate governors of *the+ potentially unruly discourse” that t ook place within.[94] On the other hand, Carla Hesse, in The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern(2001), argues that “female participation in the public cultural life of the Old Regime was ... relatively marginal”.[95] It was instead the French Revolution, by destroying the old cultural and economic restraints of patronage and corporatism (guilds), that opened French society to female participation, particularly in the literary sphere.All this is not to say that intellectual interpretations no longer exist. Jonathan Israel, for example, in Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752 (2006), constructs an argument that is primarily intellectual in scope. Like many historians before him, he sets the Enlightenment within the context of the French Revolution to follow. Israel argues that only an intellectual interpretation can adequately explain the radical break with Old Regime society.[96]。
英美文学史标准版复习4(启蒙运动)The Age of Enlightenment(18century)启蒙运动----reason理性的年代,prose散文的年代,novel小说为主一.背景1.时间:发源于意大利,鼎盛于18c法国2.观点:(对宗教与以往不同的见解)The Enlighteners fought against class inequality,stagnation,prejudice and other survivals of feudalism.反封建、反教会的思想比文艺复兴人文主义文学具有更强烈的政治和革命性。
3.口号:Liberty自由、equality平等、fraternity博爱、natural rights天赋人权。
理性原则全面批判封建统治。
(struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism)4.Purpose目的:to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical&artistic ideas.5.背景:the liberal Whigs辉格党、the conservation Tories托利党争夺政权Public coffeehouses and private clubs appeared.公共咖啡馆和私人俱乐部出现。
6.创作特点:多为小册子、现实主义小说。
补充了解:7.The writers of the Enlightenment attached great importance to molding of character and to education through the influence of varied environment.启蒙运动时期的作家重视已成型的性格和受不同环境影响的教育。
补充(了解): 1. Emphasized formality or correctness of style, to write prose like Addison, or verse like Pope.强调正确的格式和写作规范,像艾迪生一样创作散文,和蒲柏一样创作诗歌。
启蒙运动(法文:Siècle des Lumières,英文:The Enlightenment,德文:die Aufklärung)通常是指在17世纪至18世纪法国大革命之间的一个新思维不断涌现的时代,与理性主义等一起构成一个较长的文化运动时期。
这个时期的启蒙运动,覆盖了各个知识领域,如自然科学、哲学、伦理学、政治学、经济学、历史学、文学、教育学等等。
启蒙运动同时为美国独立战争与法国大革命提供了框架,并且导致了资本主义和社会主义的兴起,与音乐史上的巴洛克时期以及艺术史上的新古典主义时期是同一时期。
背景十八世纪的法国仍然是一个君主政体的国家,专制和天主教会控制着国家的社会生活和人民的思想,农村在封建领主和教会的盘剥下已是满目疮痍,宫廷贵族挥霍无度、国库空虚。
天主教会与专制王权相互勾结,推行文化专制主义和蒙昧主义,疯狂残害不同信仰者和有进步思想的人们。
与专制制度严重衰败景象形成鲜明对照的是新兴进步力量的壮大,他们强烈要求冲破旧制度,在政治、经济、思想方面的束缚[1] 。
在文艺复兴运动的推动下,自然科学取得很大进展,科学家们揭示许多自然界的奥秘,天主教会的很多说教不攻自破,人们有了更多的自信。
人们要求摆脱专制统治和天主教会压迫的愿望日益强烈,首先在思想领域展开了反对专制统治和天主教会思想束缚的斗争,由此掀起了一场轰轰烈烈的空前的思想解放运动,历史上称之为启蒙运动。
性质启蒙运动是发生在17、18世纪欧洲的一场反封建、反教会的思想文化解放运动,它为革命作了思想准备和舆论宣传,是继文艺复兴运动之后欧洲近代第二次思想解放运动。
法语中,“启蒙”的本意是“光明”。
当时先进的思想家认为,迄今为止,人们处于黑暗之中,应该用理性之光驱散黑暗,把人们引向光明。
他们著书立说,积极地批判专制主义和宗教愚昧和特权主义,宣传自由、平等和民主。
历史贡献在启蒙运动中,一批先进的、新兴的思想家前赴后继,口诛笔伐:(1)对专制制度及其精神堡垒——天主教会展开猛烈抨击;(2)对未来的社会蓝图进行展望和描绘;(3)这场持续近一个世纪的思想解放运动,开启了民智,为欧美革命作了思想上和理论上的准备;(4)这场运动传播到世界成为强大社会思潮,为民族解放斗争做了贡献。
学习必备欢迎下载英美文学史名词翻译Neoclassicism (新古典主义) Renaissance (文艺复兴) Metaphysical poetry (玄学派诗歌) Classism (古典主义)Enlightenment (启蒙运动) Romanticism (浪漫主义)Byronic Hero (拜伦式英雄) Aestheticism(美学主义)Stream of consciousness (意识流)the Age of Realism (现实主义时期) Naturalism (自然主义)Local Colorist (乡土文学)Imagism (意象主义)The Lost Generation (迷惘的一代) Surrealism (超现实主义)The Beat Generation (垮掉的一代) Metaphysical poets (玄学派诗人)New Criticism (新批评主义) Feminism(女权主义)Hemingway Code Hero (海明威式英雄) Impressionism (印象主义)Post modernity (后现代主义) Realism (现实主义)Allegory (寓言)Romance (传奇)epic(史诗)Blank Verse (无韵诗或素体广义地说Essay (随笔)Masques or Masks (假面剧) Spenserian Stanza (斯宾塞诗节) Three Unities (三一.原则)Meter (格律)Soliloquy (独白)Cavalier poets (骑士派诗人)Elegy (挽歌) .Action/plot (情节)Atmosphere (基调)Epigram (警句)The Heroic Couplet (英雄对偶句) Sentimentalism (感伤主义文学)Aside (旁白)Denouement (戏剧结局) [deɪnuː'mɒŋ] parable (寓言) Genre (流派)Irony (反讽)Satire (讽刺)Lyric (抒情诗)Ode (颂歌)Pastoral (田园诗)Canto (诗章)Lake Poets (湖畔诗人)Image (意象)Dramatic monologue(戏剧独白Psychological novel (心理小说)Allusion (典故)Protagonist and Antagonist (正面人物与反面人物)Symbolism (象征主义)Existentialism (存在主义)Anti-hero (反面人物)Round Character (丰满的人物)Flat character (平淡的人物)Oedipus complex (俄狄浦斯情结/蛮母厌父情结) ['i:dipəs; 'e-]Rhyme (押韵)Iambic pentameter (五音步诗)Poetic license (诗的破格)Legend (传说)Myth (神话)Pessimism (悲观主义)Tragicomedy (悲喜剧)Comedy of manners (风俗喜剧)Free Verse (自由体诗歌)Magic realism (魔幻现实主义) Autobiography (自传)Biography (传记)Foot (脚注)Protagonist (正面人物)Psychological Realism (心理现实主义) Setting (背景)。
The 18th century1.Enlightenment Intellectual movementan expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism.They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual needs and requirements of people.2. Classicismbalance, proportion, decorum and restraint attributed to the major works of ancient Greek and Roman literature3.Difference 17th and 18th Classicism17 please the declining aristocracy18 for the rising bourgeoisie to tidy up the capitalist social order.4.Joseph Addison and Richard Steele essayistsRichard Steele and The Tatler"The Tatler", to enlighten, as well as to entertain, his fellow coffeehouse-goers. contained several essays. in a conversational styleJoseph Addison and “The Spectator“"The Spectator", a daily paper, was a collaborative project by Addison and Steele together.it contained a gallery of vivid portraits of the members of the so-called "Spectator Club". supposed to be edited by a small club headed by Mr. SpectatorThe most striking features of the paper are the character sketches of Mr. Spectator and the members of his club,and these sketches become the forerunner of the modern English novel. They attempted to improve manners and moralcontribution1. new code of social morality for the bourgeoisie.2. picture of the social life3. the English essay had completely established itself as a literary genre. Using it as a form of character sketching and story-telling, they ushered in the dawn of modern English novel.5.Alexander Popemost important English poet,representative of the Enlightenment,one of the first to introduce rationalism to England,master in satiric and didactic verseAn Essay on Criticismheroic couplet, aesthetic theories. a comprehensive study of theories of literary criticism. .Essay on Manheroic couplet, indicates political and philosophical viewpointThe Rape of the Lockmock-heroic poem, in which he satirized the triviality and silliness of the high society with a delicate wit.The Dunciad the Iliad of DuncesPope was also an editor of Shakespeare's plays.the poet laureate桂冠诗人an outstanding enlightener and the greatest English poet of the classical school6、Jonathan Swift master satiristThe Battle of the Books satirical dialogue on the comparative merits of ancient and modernwriters. Thought ancient writers were better than the modern ones.A Tale of a Tub(木桶的故事)a prose satire and a sharp attack on the disputes among the different sects of the Christian religion.Gulliver's Travels (fiction work) Lillipu,Brobdingnag,Flying Island,Houyhnhnmparticular voyage of the hero and his extraordinary adventures on some remote islandfloating island of Laputa . absent-minded philosophers and astronomers.satirizes the scientists who keep themselves aloof from practical life.island of Sorcerers. satire against all kinds of English social institutions.Pamphlets on Ireland:denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government.The Drapier’s Letters A Modest Proposal7.Defoe forerunner of the English realistic novel.all take the form of memoirs or pretended historical narratives, everything in them gives the impression of reality.jack-of-all-trades great in journalism and authorshipMoll FlandersRobinson Crusoe based on a real factPlot:It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan. Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England. Meaning:realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson alone against the pitiless forces of nature on the island,representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its development. best qualities: his marvellous capacity for work, his boundless energy and persistence in overcoming obstacles. He struggles hard against nature and makes her bend before his will. Defoe glorifies human labour and the hero of bourgeoisie and defends the policy of colonialism of British government.8.Samuel Richardson Pamela the first modern novelnoted as a storyteller, letter-writer and moralizer.Pamela a series of letters from the heroine to her parentsgirl of virtue, bear the burden of a profligate放荡的husband and how she does all her best to reform him.意义a.pictured the life and love of ordinary people. b. moral instruction.c. secret thoughts and feelings. the first English psycho-analytical novel.9.Henry Fielding father of the English novel, comic epic in prose,first to give the modern novel its structure and stylenovelist, dramatist, essayist, pamphleteer, indeed a versatile man.began by attacking Richardson’s Pamela .criticized for its excessive sentimentality and its utilitarian moralityher secret pleasure in the temptations and her dexterous熟练的manoeuvring to secure the rewards of virtue(把贞操当作商品待价而沽)ridiculing Pamela’s brother, Joseph Andrews, under the same temptationsthis novel called “a.”散文滑稽史诗Other works:Joseph Andrews.The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.The History of Tom Jones,a Foundlingfrom the "great" thief Jonathan Wild to the "great" minister Robert Walpole to all the "great" men of the ruling classes.Tom Jones is Fielding's masterpiece, a pano’ramic全景的picture of England10.Tobias Smollett "Roderick Random"Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy11. English Drama not reach the same high level as novelRichard Brinsley SheridanThe RivalsThe School for Scandal best English comedy since shakespeare12.Samuel Johnson lexicographer, critic and poetA Dictionary of the English LanguageBoswell's "Life of Johnson" become a classic of English biography.13.Edward Gibbon 吉朋The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empirehis classical and elevated style a model for succeeding historians and prose-writers.14.Sentimentalism prized feeling over thinking, passion over reasonsincere sympathy for the poverty-stricken, expropriated peasantscriticized the cruelty of the capitalist relations and the social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions.15.Oliver Goldsmith poet, novelist, dramatist and essayistPoems: “The Traveller”“The Deserted Village”(best) in the heroic couplet.Novel The Vicar of Wakefield16.Thomas Gray“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”which is a model of sentimentalist poetry.17.Pre-romanticismstrong protest against the bondage of Classicism, by a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion, and by a renewed interest in medieval literature.18.Robert Burns poor Scotch peasant family passion for Scottish folk songsPoems Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPoetry several groups to the subject matterA. love and friendship. "A Red, Red Rose"and "Auld Long Syne".B. hate for the oppression of the ruling class and his love for freedom "A Man's A Man for A'That"C. patriotic poems "My Heart's in the Highlands".D. verse-tales which he based on old Scottish legends.19.William BlakeSongs of Innocence A happy and innocent world from children’s eye.Songs of Experience A word of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone from men eyes.Include: The Chimney Sweeper、London、The Tiger Lamb is a symbol of peace and purity Tiger is a symbol of dread and oiolenceThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell。
英国文学史(启蒙运动时期)这个部分讲启蒙运动(The Enlightenment Movement)时期的文学,还是照常,先提历史和文学背景,看看英国什么情况。
一、历史背景18世纪的英国,刚刚经历过资产阶级革命,也就是光荣革命(1688),光荣革命制宪,英国政体由君主专制转化为君主立宪,大权从国王手中落到了议会手上,资本主义发展迅速,资产阶级地位很高,而且18世纪英国开始了工业革命,在思想上面强调理性,这也是启蒙的主旨,那么文学上也会发生相应的改变,上个时期主要是德莱顿的古典主义文学时期,启蒙运动一开,文学基本就变为宣扬思想的武器,随着启蒙的深入,作家们也开始逐渐抛弃这种文学风格。
当然,18世纪初期古典主义还是在的,但是受启蒙思想的影响,古典主义变成了新古典主义(Neo-classicism),代表人物就是亚历山大·蒲伯(Alexander Pope),这货受德莱顿影响很大,后面具体说。
同时,这一时期有另一种文学体裁出现了,就是随着17世纪的报刊文学(大多都是写实小说)的发展,到了18世纪,逐渐演变成了小说,可以说是原来散文的一种变体。
这个时期的小说一般是现实主义小说,这些玩意都具有启蒙性质,初期的现实注意小说流浪汉题材(Picaresque Novel)很流行90,诗歌方面就是依旧是英雄双行体(heroic couplet)这种诗歌形式,始于乔叟,中间又经马洛、斯宾塞发展,最后到蒲伯手里有个完善。
戏剧上面那,过去都是以无韵诗为体的戏剧,18世纪改用偶句诗,时间地点格式上得到了统一。
总的来说18世纪的文学可以分为三个阶段:第一阶段主要新古典主义文学+报刊文学(就是写在报纸上的那种散文性质的文章)+现实主义小说,第二阶段:现实主义小说得到巨大发展,第三阶段,由于启蒙运动搞革命没有出现启蒙思想家想象中的理想社会,整个英国陷入一种充满悲观情绪的状态,这个时候感伤主义文学(Sentimentalism)和前浪漫主义时期(Pre-Romanticism)到来。
名词解释1.Romance: a long composition, in verse or in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, especially for the knight. The most popular theme employed was the legend of King Arthur and the round table knight.2.Renaissance: a revival or rebirth of the artistic and scientific revival which originated in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. It has two features: a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature and keen interest in activities of humanity.3.Sonnet: 14-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. 4.Enlightenment: a revival of interest in the old classical works, logic, order, restrained emotion and accuracy.5.Neoclassicism: the Enlightenment brought about a revival of interest in Greek and Roman works. This tendency is known as Neoclassicism.6.Romanticism: imagination, emotion and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism. The particular characteristics of the literature of romanticism include: subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; freedom from rules; solitary life rather then life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason; and love of and worship of nature.7.Byronic Heroes: a variant of the Romantic heroes as a type of character( enthusiasm, persistence, pursuing freedom), named after the English Romantic Poet Gordon Byron. 8.Realism: seeks to portray familiar characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner. This is done primarily by using an objective narrative point of view and through the buildup of accurate detail.9.Aestheticism: an art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than socio-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.10.Stream-of-Consciousness: it is a literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur without any clarification by the author. It is a narrative mode. 11.Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated.一、The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066)1、这个时期的文学作品分类:pagan(异教徒) Christian(基督徒)2、代表作:The Song of Beowulf 《贝奥武甫》( national epic 民族史诗) 采用了隐喻手法3、Alliteration 押头韵(写作手法)例子:of man was the mildest and most beloved,To his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.二、The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350)Canto 诗章1、romance 传奇文学2、代表作:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (高文爵士和绿衣骑士) 是一首押头韵的长诗三、Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) 杰弗里.乔叟时期1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体:a verse unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵) lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格)3、代表作:the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事(英国文学史的开端)大致内容:the pilgrims are people from various parts of England, representatives of various walks of life and social groups.朝圣者都是来自英国的各地的人,代表着社会的各个不同阶层和社会团体小说特点:each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner, thus revealing his own views and character.这些叙述者以自己特色的方式讲述自己的故事,无形中表明了各自的观点,展示了各自的性格。
The EnlightenmentThe Enlightenment is mankind‘s final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance and error.-Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment usually refers to a period between the early 18th century and the French Revolution in1789, in which new thougts were emerging . The Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason) was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to use the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in Church and state.EvolutionThe enlightenment originated in England in 17th century,it was sparked by philosophers such as John Locke (1632-1704), mathematician Newton (1643-1727) and others. The Enlightenment flourished in late 18th century. The enlightenment met its climax in France. After that, it extended to Germany, the Netherland and North America.1. Feudalism suppressed the bourgeois political rights, so they carry out anti-feudal and antichurch propaganda ideologically, to prepare for the struggle for power.2.With the Capitalist economic development, the bourgeoisie‘s economic strength surges ,so they required their own interests ideologically.3. ①The Renaissance and religious reform promoted the people's ideological emancipation;②With the development of modern science, rationalism, as an asset Anti-feudal class provides the ideological and theoretical weapon.Representative figuresDenis DiderotHe was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of the Encyclopedie.EncyclopedieThe first Encyclopedia is considered to be the pinnacle of the Enlightenment period. It was compiled by Denis Diderot in 1751-1772.VoltaireHe was famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties , including freedom of religion, free trade, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poetry, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets.He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist , he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day. His most famous work is Candide.RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy heavily influenced the Fench Revolution,as well as the overall development of modern political,sociological,and educational thought.The Industrial Revolution in Great BritainThe ground was prepared by the voyages of discovery from Western Eur ope in the 15th and 16th cent., which led to a vast influx of precious metals from the New World, raising prices, stimulating industry, and fostering a mon ey economy. Expansion of trade and the money economy stimulated the dev elopment of new institutions of finance and credit (see commercial revolutio n). In the 17th cent. the Dutch were in the forefront financially, but with the establishment (1694) of the Bank of England, their supremacy was effectively challenged. Capitalism appeared on a large scale, and a new type of commer cial entrepreneur developed from the old class of merchant adventurers. Man y machines were already known, and there were sizable factories using them, but these were the exceptions rather than the rule. Wood was the only fuel, water and wind the power of these early factories. As the 18th cent. began, an expanding and wealthier population demanded more and better goods. In the productive process, coal came to replace wood. Early-model steam engin es were introduced to drain water and raise coal from the mines. The crucial development of the Industrial Revolution was the use of steam for power, an d the greatly improved engine (1769) of James Watt marked the high point i n this development. Cotton textiles was the key industry early in the Industria l Revolution. John Kay's fly shuttle (1733), James Hargreaves's spinning jenny(patented 1770), Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769), Samuel Crompton's mule (1779), which combined the features of the jenny and the frame, and E dmund Cartwright's power loom (patented 1783) facilitated a tremendous incr ease in output. The presence of large quantities of coal and iron in close pro ximity in Britain was a decisive factor in its rapid industrial growth. The use o f coke in iron production had far-reaching effects. The coal mines from the e arly 1700s had become paramount in importance, and the Black Country app eared in England at the same time that Lancashire and Yorkshire were being transformed into the greatest textile centers of the world. Factories and indus trial towns sprang up. Canals and roads were built, and the advent of the rail road and the steamship widened the market for manufactured goods. The Be ssemer process made a gigantic contribution, for it was largely responsible fo r the extension of the use of steam and steel that were the two chief feature s of industry in the middle of the 19th cent. Chemical innovations and, most important of all, perhaps, machines for making machines played an important part in the vast changes. The Industrial Revolution did not in fact end in Brit ain in the mid-1800s. New periods came in with electricity and the gasoline e ngine. By 1850, however, the transformation wrought by the revolution was a ccomplished, in that industry had become a dominant factor in the nation's li fe.。
The 18th century1.Enligh tenme nt Intellectua l moveme ntan expres sionof strugg le of the bourge oisie agains t feudal ism.agains t classinequa lity, stagna tion, prejud icesand othersurviv als of feudal ism.They attemp ted to placeall branch es of scienc e at the servic e of mankin d by connec tingthem with the actual needsand requir ement s of people.2. Classi cismbalance, proportion, decoru m and restra i nt attrib u tedto the major worksof ancien t Greekand Romanlitera ture3.Differ ence17th and 18th Classi cism17 please the declin ing aristo cracy18 for the rising bourge oisie to tidy up the capita listsocial order.4.Joseph Addiso n and Richar d Steele essayi stsRichard Steele and The Tatler"The Tatler", to enligh ten, as well as to entert ain, his fellow coffee house-goers. contai ned severa l essays. in a conver satio nal styleJoseph Addiso n and “The Specta tor“"The Specta tor", a dailypaper, was a collab orati ve projec t by Addiso n and Steele togeth er.it contai ned a galler y of vividportra its of the member s of the so-called "Specta tor Club".suppos ed to be edited by a smallclub headed by Mr. Specta torThe most striki ng features of the paper are the character sketches of Mr. Specta tor and the members of his club,and thesesketch es become the foreru nner of the modern Englis h novel.They attemp ted to improv e manner s and moralcontri butio n1. new code of social morali ty for the bourge oisie.2. pictur e of the social life3. the Englis h essayhad comple telyestabl ished itself as a litera ry genre.Usingit as a form of charac ter sketch ing and story-tellin g, they ushere d in the dawn of modern Englis h novel.5.Alexan der Popemost import ant Englis h poet,representati ve of the Enligh tenme nt,one of the first to introd uce rationalism to Englan d,master in satiri c and didact ic verseAn Essayon Critici s mheroic couple t, aesthe ti c theori es. a compre hensi ve studyof theori es of litera ry critici sm. . Essayon Manheroic couple t, indica tes politi cal and philos ophic al viewpo intThe Rape of the Lockmock-heroic poem, in whichhe satiri zed the trivia lityand sillin e ss of the high societ y with a delica te wit.The Duncia d the Iliadof DuncesPope was also an editor of Shakes peare's plays.the poet laurea te桂冠诗人an outsta nding enligh tener and the greate st Englis h poet of the classi cal school6、Jonath an Swiftmaster satiri s tThe Battle of the Bookssatiri c al dialog ue on the comparative merits of ancien t and modernwriters. Though t ancien t writers were better t han the modern ones.A Tale of a Tub(木桶的故事)a prosesatire and a sharpattack on the disput es amongthe differ ent sectsof the Christ ian religi on.Gulliv er's Travel s (fictio n work) Lillip u,Brobdi ngnag,Flying Island,Houyhn hnmpartic ularvoyage of the hero and his extrao rdina ry advent ureson some remote islandfloati ng island of Laputa . absent-minded philosophers and astron omers.satiri zes the scient istswho keep themse lvesalooffrom practi cal life.island of Sorcerers. satire against all kindsof Englis h social instit ution s.Pamphl ets on Irelan d:denoun ced the cruel and unjust treatm ent of Irelan d by the Englis h government.The Drapie r’s Letter s A Modest Proposal7.Defoe foreru nnerof the Englis h realis tic novel.all take the form of memoir s or preten ded histor icalnarrat ives,everyt hingin them givesthe impres sionof realit y.jack-of-all-trades greatin journa lismand author shipMoll Flande rsRobins on Crusoe basedon a real factPlot:It praise the fortit ude of the humanl abor and the Purita n. Robinson grew from a naiveand artless youthi nto a shrewd and harden ed man,tempered by numero u s trials i n his eventful life. It is an advent ure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely i sland, struggl es to live for 24-yearsthereand finall y gets reliev ed and return s to Englan d. Meanin g:realis tic accoun t of the succes sfulstrugg le of Robins on aloneagains t the pitile ss forces of nature on the island,repres entat ive of the Englis h bourge oisie at the earlie r stages of its develo pment. best qualit ies: his marvel louscapaci ty for work, his boundl ess energy and persis tence in overco mingobstac les. He strugg les hard agains t nature and makesher bend before his will. Defoeglorif ies humanlabour and the hero of bourge oisie and defend s the policy of coloni alism of Britis h govern ment.8.Samuel Richar dsonPamela the firstmodern novelnotedas a storyt eller, letter-writer and morali zer.Pamela a series of letter s from the heroin e to her parent sgirl of virtue, bear the burden of a profli gate放荡的husban d and how she does all her best to reform hi m.意义a.pictur ed the life and love of ordina ry people. b. moralinstru ction.c. secret though ts and feelin gs. the firstEnglis h psycho-analyt icalnovel.9.HenryFieldi ng father of the Englis h novel, comicepic in prose,first to give the modern novelits struct ure and stylenoveli st, dramat ist, essayi st, pamphl eteer, indeed a versat ile man.beganby attack i ng Richardson’s Pamela .critici zedfor its excessi ve sentim ental i ty and its utilit arian morali tyher secret pleasu re in the tempta tions and her dexterous熟练的manoeu vring to secure the rewards of virtue(把贞操当作商品待价而沽)ridiculing Pamela’s brothe r, Joseph Andrew s, under the same tempta tionsthis novel called“a.”散文滑稽史诗Other works:Joseph Andrews.The Life of Mr. Jonath an Wild the Great.The History of Tom Jones,a Foundl ingfrom the "great" thiefJonath an Wild to the "great" minist er Robert Walpol e to all the "great" men of the ruling classe s.Tom Jonesis Fieldi ng's masterpiece, a pano’ramic全景的picture of Englan d10.Tobias Smolle tt "Roderi ck Random"Lauren ce Sterne The Life and Opinio ns of Tristram Shandy11. Englis h Dramanot reachthe same high levelas novelRichard Brinsl ey Sherid anThe RivalsThe School for Scanda l best Englis h comedy sinceshakespeare12.Samuel Johnso n lexico graph er, critic and poetA Dictio naryof the Englis h Langua geBoswel l's "Life of Johnso n" become a classi c of Englis h biogra phy.13.Edward Gibbon吉朋The Declin e and Fall of the RomanEmpirehis classi c al and elevat ed style a model for succee dinghistori ansand prose-writers.14.Sentim ental i sm prized feelin g over thinki ng, passio n over reasonsincer e sympat hy for the povert y-strick en, exprop riate d peasan tscritic izedthe cruelt y of the capita listrelati ons and the social injust icesbrough t aboutby the bourge ois revolu tions.15.Oliver Goldsm i th poet, noveli st, dramat ist and essayi stPoems:“The Travel ler”“The Desert ed V illag e”(best) in the heroic couple t.NovelThe V icaro f Wakefi eld16.Thomas Gray“ElegyW ritte n in a Country Church yard”whichi s a model of sentim ental i st poetry.17.Pre-romant icismstrong protest against the bondag e of Classi cism, by a recogni tion of the claims of passio n and emotio n, and by a renewe d intere st in medieval litera ture.18.Robert Burns poor Scotch peasan t family passio n for Scotti sh folk songsPoemsChiefl y in the Scotti s h DialectPoetry severa l groups to the subjec t matterA. love and friend ship. "A Red, Red Rose"and "Auld Long Syne".B. hate for the oppressi onof the ruling classand his love for freedo m "A Man's A Man for A'That"C. patrio tic poems"My Heart's in the Highla nds".D. verse-taleswhichhe basedon old Scotti sh legend s.19.Willia m BlakeSongsof Innoce nce A happyand innoce nt worldfrom children’s eye.Songsof Experi enceA word of misery, povert y, disease, war and repres sion with a melanchol ytone from men eyes.Includ e: The Chimne y Sweepe r、London、The TigerLamb is a symbol of peaceand purity Tigeri s a symbol of dreadand oiolen ceThe Marria ge of Heaven and Hell。
考纲C层次之十启蒙运动(enlightenment)一、启蒙运动概况:1、产生背景:西欧资本主义的发展,资产阶级的壮大要求剥去封建制度的神圣外衣;自然科学的突飞猛进为破除迷信、批判蒙昧提供新的思想武器。
2、发展阶段:17世纪兴起于英国,18世纪法国成为运动的中心,把启蒙运动推向高潮,而后扩展到全世界。
3、核心内容:(1)否定教会权威和盲目信仰,提倡进步和理性;(2)从自然法和社会契约学说入手,否定封建专制,宣扬天赋人权和人民主权;(3)从天赋人权入手,宣扬人生而自由、平等;(4)普遍赞同君主立宪,主张建立合乎理性的社会和国家,构建了资本主义国家的基本政治制度;总之启蒙运动批判专制主义、教权主义和等级制,追求个人自由、政治民主和权利平等。
4、性质:启蒙运动是继文艺复兴之后欧洲新一轮的资产阶级反封建专制、反教会权威的思想解放运动。
5、影响:进步性:①启蒙思想家向封建势力发起猛烈冲击,传播了(自由、民主、平等)等进步思想,从根本上动摇了封建统治的思想基础;②为即将到来的美、法等国资产阶级革命提供了理论依据,进行了舆论动员;③为后世的殖民地、半殖民地人民争取民族独立和人民的自由、民主、平等提供了思想武器;④也为资本主义国家提供了系统的政治构想。
时代局限(阶级分析法,仅供参考):现在我们知道,这个理性的王国不过是资产阶级的理想化的王国;永恒的正义在资产阶级的司法中得到实现;平等归结为法律面前的资产阶级的平等;被宣布为最主要的人权之一的是资产阶级的所有权;而理性的国家、卢梭的社会契约在实践中表现为而且也只能表现为资产阶级的民主共和国。
18世纪的伟大思想家们,也和他们的一切先驱者一样,没有能够超出他们自己的时代所给予他们的限制。
——恩格斯《反杜林论》附1、思考:从人文主义起源到科学理性时代经历了哪些重大事件?①萌芽:希腊先哲,强调人的尊严和价值,西方人文主义精神的起源②兴起:文艺复兴,高举“人文主义”大旗,冲击宗教神学世界观。
The 18th century1.Enlightenment Intellectual movementan expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism.They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual needs and requirements of people.2. Classicismbalance, proportion, decorum and restraint attributed to the major works of ancient Greek and Roman literature3.Difference 17th and 18th Classicism17 please the declining aristocracy18 for the rising bourgeoisie to tidy up the capitalist social order.4.Joseph Addison and Richard Steele essayistsRichard Steele and The Tatler"The Tatler", to enlighten, as well as to entertain, his fellow coffeehouse-goers. contained several essays. in a conversational styleJoseph Addison and “The Spectator“"The Spectator", a daily paper, was a collaborative project by Addison and Steele together.it contained a gallery of vivid portraits of the members of the so-called "Spectator Club". supposed to be edited by a small club headed by Mr. SpectatorThe most striking features of the paper are the character sketches of Mr. Spectator and the members of his club,and these sketches become the forerunner of the modern English novel. They attempted to improve manners and moralcontribution1. new code of social morality for the bourgeoisie.2. picture of the social life3. the English essay had completely established itself as a literary genre. Using it as a form of character sketching and story-telling, they ushered in the dawn of modern English novel.5.Alexander Popemost important English poet,representative of the Enlightenment,one of the first to introduce rationalism to England,master in satiric and didactic verseAn Essay on Criticismheroic couplet, aesthetic theories. a comprehensive study of theories of literary criticism. .Essay on Manheroic couplet, indicates political and philosophical viewpointThe Rape of the Lockmock-heroic poem, in which he satirized the triviality and silliness of the high society with a delicate wit.The Dunciad the Iliad of DuncesPope was also an editor of Shakespeare's plays.the poet laureate桂冠诗人an outstanding enlightener and the greatest English poet of the classical school6、Jonathan Swift master satiristThe Battle of the Books satirical dialogue on the comparative merits of ancient and modernwriters. Thought ancient writers were better than the modern ones.A Tale of a Tub(木桶的故事)a prose satire and a sharp attack on the disputes among the different sects of the Christian religion.Gulliver's Travels (fiction work) Lillipu,Brobdingnag,Flying Island,Houyhnhnmparticular voyage of the hero and his extraordinary adventures on some remote islandfloating island of Laputa . absent-minded philosophers and astronomers.satirizes the scientists who keep themselves aloof from practical life.island of Sorcerers. satire against all kinds of English social institutions.Pamphlets on Ireland:denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government.The Drapier’s Letters A Modest Proposal7.Defoe forerunner of the English realistic novel.all take the form of memoirs or pretended historical narratives, everything in them gives the impression of reality.jack-of-all-trades great in journalism and authorshipMoll FlandersRobinson Crusoe based on a real factPlot:It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan. Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England. Meaning:realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson alone against the pitiless forces of nature on the island,representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its development. best qualities: his marvellous capacity for work, his boundless energy and persistence in overcoming obstacles. He struggles hard against nature and makes her bend before his will. Defoe glorifies human labour and the hero of bourgeoisie and defends the policy of colonialism of British government.8.Samuel Richardson Pamela the first modern novelnoted as a storyteller, letter-writer and moralizer.Pamela a series of letters from the heroine to her parentsgirl of virtue, bear the burden of a profligate放荡的husband and how she does all her best to reform him.意义a.pictured the life and love of ordinary people. b. moral instruction.c. secret thoughts and feelings. the first English psycho-analytical novel.9.Henry Fielding father of the English novel, comic epic in prose,first to give the modern novel its structure and stylenovelist, dramatist, essayist, pamphleteer, indeed a versatile man.began by attacking Richardson’s Pamela .criticized for its excessive sentimentality and its utilitarian moralityher secret pleasure in the temptations and her dexterous熟练的manoeuvring to secure the rewards of virtue(把贞操当作商品待价而沽)ridiculing Pamela’s brother, Joseph Andrews, under the same temptationsthis novel called “a.”散文滑稽史诗Other works:Joseph Andrews.The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.The History of Tom Jones,a Foundlingfrom the "great" thief Jonathan Wild to the "great" minister Robert Walpole to all the "great" men of the ruling classes.Tom Jones is Fielding's masterpiece, a pano’ramic全景的picture of England10.Tobias Smollett "Roderick Random"Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy11. English Drama not reach the same high level as novelRichard Brinsley SheridanThe RivalsThe School for Scandal best English comedy since shakespeare12.Samuel Johnson lexicographer, critic and poetA Dictionary of the English LanguageBoswell's "Life of Johnson" become a classic of English biography.13.Edward Gibbon 吉朋The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empirehis classical and elevated style a model for succeeding historians and prose-writers.14.Sentimentalism prized feeling over thinking, passion over reasonsincere sympathy for the poverty-stricken, expropriated peasantscriticized the cruelty of the capitalist relations and the social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions.15.Oliver Goldsmith poet, novelist, dramatist and essayistPoems: “The Traveller”“The Deserted Village”(best) in the heroic couplet.Novel The Vicar of Wakefield16.Thomas Gray“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”which is a model of sentimentalist poetry.17.Pre-romanticismstrong protest against the bondage of Classicism, by a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion, and by a renewed interest in medieval literature.18.Robert Burns poor Scotch peasant family passion for Scottish folk songsPoems Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPoetry several groups to the subject matterA. love and friendship. "A Red, Red Rose"and "Auld Long Syne".B. hate for the oppression of the ruling class and his love for freedom "A Man's A Man for A'That"C. patriotic poems "My Heart's in the Highlands".D. verse-tales which he based on old Scottish legends.19.William BlakeSongs of Innocence A happy and innocent world from children’s eye.Songs of Experience A word of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone from men eyes.Include: The Chimney Sweeper、London、The Tiger Lamb is a symbol of peace and purity Tiger is a symbol of dread and oiolenceThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell。