Keyu Peng

Abstract: Hard Times is a mid-career masterpiece by the English novelist Charles Dickens. Compared with the light-hearted and optimistic tone of his earlier works, Dickens is more critical in this work. In this paper, we will apply Lu Shuyuan’s Spiritual Ecology Theory to make an in-depth interpretation of Hard Times, analyse the performance of the protagonist Louisa’s spiritual ecology imbalance, the reasons for it, and how to rebuild the balance of the spiritual ecology, and then emphasize the importance of building a harmonious spiritual ecology.

Keywords: Hard times, spiritual ecology theory, Louisa

[1] Charles Dickens. Hard Times, translated by Quan Zengyu and Hu Wenshu, Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2008. [2] Blaine William Collap. British Environmental History since the Industrial Revolution, translated by Wang Li, Beijing: China Environmental Science Press, 2011. [3] Liu Wenliang. Categories and Methods: An Essay on Ecocriticism, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2009. [4] Lu Shuyuan. The Space of Ecocriticism, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2006. [5] Yang Liu. On Environmental Description in Difficult Times, Xiangtan University, 2013. [6] Jingxin Zhang. On the Ecological Consciousness of Dickens’ Novels, Shandong Normal University, 2013. About the author: Keyu Peng (1999.12-), female, Han nationality, Changsha city, Hunan Province, master's degree candidate, Hunan Normal University. Research direction: British and American literature

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