Environmental Problems in Victorian Era in Hard Times

As a critical realist novelist who concerns about social problems, Dickens saw the environmental crisis under the vanity of the industrialization. In Hard Times, Coketown is the epitome of the capitalist industrial city in Britain at that time. From ecological perspective, this paper explores the impact of environmental problems on the social and natural environment of Victorian cities. Through the analysis of the social environment problem and the natural environment pollution in Coketown, it shows that Dickens was extremely painful towards the environmental pollution and the alienation of human nature caused by the wantonly expansion of industrial civilization. It also reveals Dickens' yearning for a healthy social ecology and his ecological thought of returning to nature.

關鍵字

Charles Dickens ； Hard Times ； Environmental Problem ； Victorian Era

參考文獻

Armstrong, Susan. Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. New York: Macgra-Hillnc. 1993.

Google Scholar

Cheryll, Glotfelty. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Georgia:The University of Georgia Press,1996.

Google Scholar

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2005.

Google Scholar

Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. London Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1953.

Google Scholar

Hutchings, Kevin. Ecocriticism in British Romantic Studies. University of Northern British Columbia Literature Compass, 2007.

Google Scholar

國際替代計量

Environmental Problems in Victorian Era in Hard Times

全文下載

主題瀏覽