维多利亚时代文学作品

中南财经政法大学外语学院

英语系

英国文学史及选读

British Literature-An Introduction

Teaching Plan for Unit 11

The Victorian Age (3)

Teaching objectives

1.

Students should be clear about the literature in The Victorian Age

II.

Teaching Strategies

1.

Use

student-centered

teaching

method

to

guide

students

in

their

learning;

encourage students think themselves and participate in class activities actively.

2.

Through group work or discussion in pairs to devel

op students’ communicative

ability.

3.

Encourage

students

to

find

related

information

through

Internet

or

other

references to develop their self-study ability.

III.

T

eaching Aims:

1.

To provide the learners with

a brief outline of the history

of British literature up

to the end of 19

th

century;

2.

To introduce the learners to

imaginative use of English

and to help them towards

an appreciation of literary language and literature;

3.

To consolidate and extend the learners’ knowledge and fluency in English through

interaction

with literary texts;

4.

To further develop

the learners’ ability to

recognize and express

emotional

and

moral attitudes

on a higher level than about daily occurrences so as to facilitate

their communication with educated native speakers;

5.

To prepare the learners for the study of literature in English at a higher level and

to

help

them

to

develop

interest

in

and,

hopefully,

the

habit

of

，

reading

extensively.

IV.

Time Allocation

Introduction to the Victorian Age

……………

1 period

Text Study of Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

…………………

. 1 period

V.

Teaching Methods

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lectures on the related historical and cultural background

textual study

class discussion or presentation

reading assignment before each class

group work

research work for the term paper

中南财经政法大学外语学院

英语系

英国文学史及选读

British Literature-An Introduction

VI.

Textbooks

1.

Peng Jiahai,2006,

《

A Course Book of English Literature

》

，

University of Science and Technology

VII.

Reference books

Baldick,

Chris.

2000.

Oxford

Concise

Dictionary

of

Literary

Terms.

Shanghai:

Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Zhang,

Boxiang.1997-98.

British

Literature,

a

Coursebook.

V

ol.1-3.

Wuhan:

Wuhan Uni. Press.

VIII.

Teaching Procedures

Victorian Literature (3)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

1. Life and Career

?

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 at Portsmouth, where his father worked as a

Navy pay office clerk. As a little boy, Charles was exceptionally bright and

articulate, and was often asked to perform before people. The boy had a

haphazard primary education, and spent much time alone reading in his little

room all kinds of books, especially the eighteenth-century novels such as

Humphrey Clinker, Peregrine Pickle, Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, Tom

Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, etc. The happy childhood ended in 1822 when the

family moved to London. At the age of 12, young Charles had to work at a

shoe-blacking factory in the East End because his father was taken to the

Marshelsea prison, London, for debt. He worked 12 hours a day wrapping and

pasting labels on bottled blacking, for 6 shillings a week. Those lonely, hungry

days inflicted so early in life upon such a sensitive boy had left an ineradicable

bitter remembrance in the remainder of his life. Years later he wrote:

to man or boy, how it was I came to be there, or gave the least indication of being

sorry that I was there. That I suffered in secret, and that I suffered exquisitely, no

one ever knew but I. . . .

and humiliation of such considerations, that even now, famous and caressed and

happy, I often forget in my dreams that I have a dear wife and children; even that

I am a man; and wander desolately back to that time of my life.

中南财经政法大学外语学院

英语系