《英国文学》课程PPT教学课件（English Literature）Part VI 5 Goldsmith

Sentimentalism & Oliver Goldsmith

Sentimentalism & Oliver Goldsmith

Sentimentalism 感伤主义文学 PENGUIN CL ASSI CS LAURENCE STERNE A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY time: sthe middle and later decades ofj the 18th century It gains its name from Sterne's A Sentimental Journey

Sentimentalism ❖ 感伤主义文学 ❖ time: the middle and later decades of the 18th century ❖ It gains its name from Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey

a reaction against the cold rationalism *a pessimistic outlook an appeal to semotion,sentiment,not reason

❖ a reaction against the cold rationalism ❖ a pessimistic outlook ❖ an appeal to emotion, sentiment, not reason

This trend marks the transition form neoclassicism to romanticism in English poetry

❖ This trend marks the transition form neoclassicism to romanticism in English poetry

It carefully depicts person's mood and their miserable life so as to arouse readers' sympathy,reflecting sthe disdain towards the actual world deep sympathy to the ordinary people

❖ It carefully depicts person’s mood and their miserable life so as to arouse readers’ sympathy, reflecting the disdain towards the actual world deep sympathy to the ordinary people

target 1.to criticize the cruelty of the capitalist relations the gross social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions

target ❖ 1. to criticize the cruelty of the capitalist relations the gross social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions

÷2.to blame reason 4 sthe Industrial Revolution 3.to show a sincere sympathy for the poverty-stricken,expropriated peasants

❖ 2. to blame reason the Industrial Revolution ❖ 3. to show a sincere sympathy for the poverty-stricken, expropriated peasants

characteristics (1)Appeal to emotion,sentiment, not reason. (2)Heroes in sentimentalists' works are usually common people,or the oppressed

characteristics ❖ (1) Appeal to emotion, sentiment, not reason. ❖ (2) Heroes in sentimentalists’ works are usually common people, or the oppressed

(3)Sentimentalists usually like to idealize village or the countryside. (4)Sentimentalists often turn Erdusively at Sotisfoctin c to describe nature

❖ (3) Sentimentalists usually like to idealize village or the countryside. ❖ (4) Sentimentalists often turn to describe nature

Representatives the most outstanding figure: Laurence Sterne. the most important sentimentalist poets: Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Gray the first sentimentalist novelist: Samuel Richardson

Representatives ❖ the most outstanding figure: Laurence Sterne. ❖ the most important sentimentalist poets: Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Gray ❖ the first sentimentalist novelist: Samuel Richardson