2022年读的19~20世纪英美文学作品
Victorian literature is both formally experimental and profoundly engaged with the political, social and intellectual changes that made the world in 1901 (the end of Victoria’s reign) so different from the world in 1837 when Victorian came to the throne. We’ll be reading novels, poetry and prose that both changed the things that literature could do, and attempted to imagine and manage a rapidly changing world. We’ll start with Charlotte Bronte’sJane Eyre, then move on to Elizabeth Gaskell’sNorth and South, George Eliot’sDaniel Derondaand finally Thomas Hardy’sTess of the D’Urbervilles. In between, we’ll read poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and some of the writers of literary and extra literary prose featured in the Victorian Volume ofThe Norton Anthology of English Literature.
最近喜欢看油管上一个博主books and things的视频，她系统读了Anthony Trollope、the Bronte sisters、Elizabeth Gaskell等的书，让我也燃起对Victorian Literature的兴趣。准备边读边梳理一下自己读过的19~20世纪英美文学作品。（时间顺序）
- 《 Northanger Abbey》 Jane Austen，【1818】
写于作者28岁
发表于作者43岁
Though it was published posthumously in 1818, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey was written in 1803 and it was the first novel she completed
Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, to the local rector, Rev. George Austen (1731-1805), and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827). She was the seventh of eight children.
- 《Agnes Grey》 Anne Brontë ，【1847】
发表于作者27岁
published in 1847. The strongly autobiographical narrative concerns the travails of a rector’s daughter in her service as governess, first to the unruly Bloomfield children and then to the callous Murrays. Her sole consolations in an otherwise dreary and constricted life are the natural environment and her blossoming relationship with Weston, the local curate, whom she eventually marries.
Anne Brontë, pseudonym Acton Bell, (born Jan. 17, 1820, Thornton, Yorkshire, Eng.—died May 28, 1849, Scarborough, Yorkshire), English poet and novelist, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
- 《Wives and Daughters》Elizabeth Gaskell，【1866】
发表于作者57岁
first published serially in The Cornhill Magazine (August 1864–January 1866) and then in book form in 1866; it was unfinished at the time of her death in November 1865
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson, (born September 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, England—died November 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire
- 《 The Age of Innocence》 Edith Wharton，【1920】
发表于作者58岁
published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the novel was written in the fragmented aftermath of the First World War, which Edith Wharton experienced first-hand in Paris
Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France), American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born
- 《Lady Chatterley's Lover》D. H. Lawrence，【1928】
发表于作者43岁
published in a limited English-language edition in Florence (1928) and in Paris (1929). It was first published in England in an expurgated version in 1932. The full text was published only in 1959 in New York City and in 1960 in London
David Herbert Lawrence, (born September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 2, 1930, Vence, France), English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century
