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发表于 2012-2-20 22:54:51
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同时补充考到的一篇长阅读 是civil原题
Mary Barton,particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering ofthe industrial worker in the England of the 1840’s. What is most impressiveabout the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author,Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-classhomes. Her method is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes suchfeatures as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, the exact details offood prices in an account of a tea party (tea party: n.茶话会), an itemizeddescription of the furniture of the Bartons’ living room, and a transcription (arecording (as on magnetic tape) made especially for use in radio broadcasting)(again annotated) of the ballad “The Oldham Weaver.” The interest of this recordis considerable, even though the method has a slightly distancing effect.
Asa member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approachingworking-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of thenovel is always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imaginativere-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green Heys Fields, of tea at theBartons’ house, and of John Barton and his friend’s discovery of the starvingfamily in the cellar in the chapter “Poverty and Death.” Indeed, for asimilarly convincing re-creation of such families’ emotions and responses(which are more crucial than the material details on which the mere reporter isapt to concentrate), the English novel had to wait 60 years for the earlywriting of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of fullparticipation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton, she still brings to thesescenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has its own sufficientconviction. Thechapter “Old Alice’s History” brilliantly dramatizes the situation of thatearly generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside tothe urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver andnaturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies one kind ofresponse to an urban industrial environment: an affinity for living things thathardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of crankiness.The early chapters—about factory workers walking out in spring into Green HeysFields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering forbrooms in the native village that she will never again see; about Job Legh,intent on his impaled insects—capture the characteristic responses of a generationto the new and crushing experience of industrialism. The other early chapterseloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with eachother that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.
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