英国文学史

Chapter 1 Literature of Old and Middle English Periods (450--1485)

1 Introduction

2 Old English Period: 449--1066

2.1 The Venerable Bede and Caedmon

2.2 King Alfred the Great

2.3 Beowulf

3.Middle English Period: 1066--1485

3.1 Medieval Romance

3.2 Folk Ballad

3.3 John Wycliffe and William Langland

3.3.1 John Wycliffe (1324--1384)

3.3.2 William Langland (1330--1388)

3.4 Drama in the Middle Ages

3.5 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343--1400)

3.5.1 Chaucer's Life Background

3.5.2 Chaucer's Literary Career

Chapter 2 Literature of English Renaissance ( 1485--1616）

1 Introduction

2 Thomas More and Francis Bacon

2.1 Thomas More (1478--1535)

2.2 Francis Bacon (1561--1626)

3 Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser

3.1 Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)

3.2 Edmund Spenser (1522--1599)

4.Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson

4.1 Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)

4.2 Ben Jonson (1572--1637)

5.William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

5.1 Life and Achievements

5.2 Historical Plays

5.3 Comedies

5.4 Tragedies

5.5 Romances

5.6 Sonnets

Chapter 3 Literature of the 17th Century (1616--1688)

1 Introduction

2 John Milton (1608--1674)

3 The Metaphysical Poets

3.1 John Donne (1572--1631)

3.2 George Herbert (1593--1633)

3.3 Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

4.The Restoration Drama

5.John Dryden (1631--1700)

6.John Bunyan (1628--1688)

Chapter 4 Literature of the 18th Century: (1688--1798)

1 Introduction

2 Alexander Pope (1688--1744)

3 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

3.1 Joseph Addison (1672--1719)

3.2 Richard Steele (1672--1729)

4.Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)

5 The Rise of the Novel in England

5.1 Daniel Defoe (16597--1731)

5.2 Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)

5.3 Samuel Richardson (1689--1761)

5.4 Henry Fielding (1707--1754)

5.5 Tobias George Smollett (1721--1771)

5.6 Oliver Goldsmith (1730--1774)

5.7 Laurence Sterne (1713--1768)

5.8 The Gothic Novel: Horace Walpole (1717--1797) and Ann Radcliffe (1764--1823)

6 Pre-Romantic Poetry

6.1 Graveyard School Poet: Thomas Gray (1716--1771)

6.2 Robert Burns (I759--1796)

6.3 William Blake (1757--1827)

Chapter 5 Literature of the Romantic Period ( 1798--1832}

1 Introduction

2 The First Generation Romantics

2.1 William Wordsworth (1770--1850)

2.2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)

2.3 Robert Southey (1774--1843)

3 The Second Generation Romantics

3.1 George Gordon Byron (1788--1824)

3.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)

3.3 John Keats (1795--1821)

4.Novelist of Social Manners: Jane Austen (1775--1817)

5.Historical Novelist: Walter Scott (1771--1832)

6.Familiar Essayist : Charles Lamb (I775--1834)

Chapter 6 Literature of the Victorian Age (1832--1900)

Chapter 7 Literature of the 20th Century (]900--1945)

Chapter 8 Literature of the 20th Century (194S--2000)

《英国文学史》是一部为我国高校英语专业学生编写的教材。教材力求体现新形势下研究型教学的要求和探究式学习的特点。为引导学生进一步阅读、思考和研究，编者在每一章节后面，根据不同作家和作品的特点、不同文学思潮和文学流派的的特征设计出相关思考题，并提供进一步研读书目，这既突出了教材的重点，也为学生今后的毕业论文写作提供了参考。