文档介绍：English Literature
English Critical Realism (I)
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English Critical Realism
The Historical Background (1830s-1900):
The Parliamentary Reform (1832)
The Chartist Movement
The publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859)
Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels (1848)
The Fabian society
The Boer War
English Critical Realism
English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The English critical realists of the 19th century gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes and showed profound sympathy for mon people. In their works, humor and satire are used to present the honesty and good-heartedness of the obscure simple people of the lower class and the greed and hypocrisy of the upper classes. As to the literary form or ‘genre’, the major contribution made by the 19th century critical realists lies in their perfection of the novel. The greatest
English Critical Realism
English realist of the time was Charles Dickens. With striking force and truthfulness, he creates pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of mon people. Another critical realist, William Makepeace Thackeray, was a no less server expose of contemporary society. Thackeray’s novels are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society. The method of critical realism were further ado