从雾都孤儿看狄更斯的人道主义文献综述

Foreign Studies on Oliver Twist:Dickens is such a great writer that a good many important studies of him and his Oliver Twist have appeared. These studies approach Dickens from various perspectives. Some scholars concentrate on Dickens's life, represented by Edgar Johnson's Charles Dickens:His Tragedy and Triumphs in which the writer consider his life is just like the life in his novels,full of tragedy and comedy. Other scholars have explored Dickens's writing features,characters and techniques in Oliver Twist. For example, George Gissing published Charles Dickens:A Critical Study in 1898. There are also some scholars who have studied the relation of Dickens works to the political, moral, and social realities of the Victorian Age, like in George Newlin's Everything in Dickens:Ideas and Subjects Discussed by Charles Dickens in his Complete Works.

Domestic Studies on Oliver Twist:In recent years a good many important studies of Dickens's Oliver Twist have appeared. These studies have approached Oliver Twist from the diverse points of view, though there has been generally an implicit agreement that the novel represents Dickens's critical realism idea. One can distinguish several different modes of approach in these recent studies, though there is of course a good deal of overlapping. Some scholars have examined the fact that the creation of the children characters has a close relationship with both Dickens's personal background, especially his childhood experience, and social background. Some scholars have explored Dickens's wish for social reform. Other scholars have examined Dickens's humanitarianism. Still others have explored Dickens's criticism of British industrialization and the New Poor Law.

However, so far, few scholars pay close attention to children's education and federation in the novel. There is also no papers talk about the image of person that Dickens created to show his humanity. Dickens throws tremendous energy into his creation of children, most of whom are deserted children. Dickens appeals to the common experience of the reader, to arouse the sympathy of the readers and led them to the thought of moral issues such as humanity.