Social Conventions and Human Tragedy in Richard Jefferies‟ “The Acorn-gatherer”

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10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Acorn-gather; social conventions; human tragedy; reality

Abstract

Richard Jefferies is a British writer well-known for his novel on the history, rural life and agriculture in the late Victorian England. His works, The Acorn-gather, through the lonely life and silent death of a little boy, accounts for the rigid social conventions and human tragedy of lower-strata people in rural areas in the process of industrialization, which distorts the human image. This paper explores how the work displays the hard and miserable human life while presenting the readers the beautiful nature, which has a deep influence on the modern society.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhengfeng Chen
AU  - Pei Zheng
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TI  - Social Conventions and Human Tragedy in Richard Jefferies‟ “The Acorn-gatherer”
BT  - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication (ICELAIC 2017)
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SP  - 357
EP  - 360
SN  - 2352-5398
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