【正文】 ch kind of city they want?As for this question, Dickens also has his own view. I cannot know it from this novel clearly, but what he is not pleased to see can be clearly read. Charles Dickens writes London by the eyes and speech of characters and the narrator. At the very beginning, the novel describes the portrait of London.……此處刪除多段In addition to above, the house in London is downfalling. “A large house, formerly a house of state, is let off in sets of chambers now and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness”(Dickens 1993:114). The quondam luxury house is the symbol of the state and fortune for aristocracy. However, they bee so bleak which implies the fall of the aristocracy at that time. Especially this case is not a special case, but the slum, TomAllAlone’s, is once the house of aristocracy. Because of the lawsuit or other reasons, they are abandoned and lose the glory, and they are occupied by the displaced people without any care and topple down in silence. All of above seem to indicate the tendency that the Englishness changes from elegance to utilitarian, and the tendency of the decline of noble, which show the lost of Englishness. The Urge to Keep the Traditional Englishness in the CityThe city bees bustling and prosperous, which maybe the original intention of English. But at that moment, as to their lives, many English are pleased to e back to the before. So they miss the past and yearn to live in the country to look for fort. ……此處刪除多段V. ConclusionThe novel Bleak House, by virtue of the Bleak House, Chesney Wold, the buildings in London, shows the improvement of civilization and the transforming of Englishness. Bleak House maintains the principles of dignified Englishness with simplicity, munality and authentic craftsmanship of medieval English village life. It asserts that life should reliance on the principles of Englishness the old order of the world and the culture of English gentleman and lady. The ideal of Englishness rests on notions of dignity and gentility that are themselves narrowly defined in terms of country house and countryside.In the big wave of the industrial revolution, English society changes drastically. The decline of country and the prosperity of city upset the British inherent values, aesthetics and lifestyle. However, Englishness itself keeps alive in succession. British people struggle in the new and the old, in the tradition and modern, in the utilitarianism and romanticism. They want to be able to keep rural, carefree, natural and simple life, and cannot stop city from developing toward the regulation order and realism. So they promise with the reality, and urge to keep the both sides of country and city life. This is the construction of Englishness in Bleak House.References[1] Baldwin, Stanley. On England and Other Address[M]. London: Philip Allan, 1926.[2] Chen, Yueqin. An Elegy of Englishness: On Kazuo Ishinguro’s The Remains of the Day[D] ZhejiangNormal University, 2010.[3] Dickens, Charles. Bleak House[M]. Ware Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1993.[4] Fox, Kate. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior[M]. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004.[5] Kumar, Krishan. The Making of English National Identity[M]. London: Cambridge University Press, 2003.[6] Leavis, Q. D. The Englishness of the English Novel[A]. In G. Singh (eds.). The Englishness of the English Novel[C]. London: Cambridge University Press, 1983.[7] Matless, David. Landscape and Englishness[M]. London: Reaktion books limited, 1998.[8] Lowenthal, David. British National Identity and the English Landscape[J]. Rural History, 1991(2): 205230.[9] Orwell, George. The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius[A]. In Sonia Orwell amp。 Ian Angus (eds.). Journalism and Letters of George Orwell[C]. Harmondsworth: Penguin books, 1970.[10] Parekh, Bhiku. Defining British National Identity[J]. The Political Quarterly, 2009 (1): 251262.[11] Paxman, Jeremy. The English: A Portrait of a People[M]. Minneapolis: the University of Minneasota Press, 2009.[12] Ruskin, John. Lectures on Art[M]. London: Library Edition, 1870.[13] Sandiford, Peter John. The Public House and Its Role in Society’s Margins[J]. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2011(1): 765773.[14] Schwarz, Bill. Black Metropolis White England[A]. Mica Nava (eds.). In Modern Times: Reflection on a Century of English Modernity[C]. London: Routledge, 1996.[15] 愛德華W薩義德. 文化與帝國主義[M]. 北京: 生活讀書新知三聯(lián)書店, 2003.[16] 陳景行. 英國性與英國貴族的衰弱：論《長日留痕》中管家的職責(zé)和尊嚴(yán)[J]. 北京電力高等專科學(xué)院學(xué)報(bào), 2011(3): 327328.[17] 德里克艾弗里. 維多利亞和愛德華時(shí)期的建筑[M]. 北京: 中國建筑工業(yè)出版社, 2008.[18] 姜士昌. 福斯特對“英國性”的多重闡釋[J], 譯林, 2008(5):205208.[19] 金冰. “英國性”的雙重建構(gòu)[J], 外國文學(xué), 2009(6): 6976.[20] 林艷青, 盧秋菊. 《荒涼山莊》中的倫敦和倫敦的霧[J]. 長江大學(xué)學(xué)報(bào), 2009(2): 139140.[21] 王卉, 姚振軍. 《白牙》中對“英國性”的重新定義[J]. 世界文學(xué)評論, 2011(2): 7883.１１