英美文学史及选读精要

前言

PartⅠ English Literattire

Chapter 1. The Anglo - Saxon Period

1. Historical Background

2. Introduction to Beowulf

Chapter 2. The Anglo - Norman Period

1. Historical Background

2. Romances

3. Introduction to Sir Gaiwain and the Green Knight

Chapter 3. Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Introduction to The Carzterbury Tales

Chapter 4. The Fifteenth - Century Popular Ballad

Chapter 5. The Sixteenth - Century English Literature

1. Historical Background

2. Renaissance and Humanism

3. The Sixteenth - Century Poetry and Edmund Spenser

4. The Sixteenth - Century Drama and Christopher Marlowe

5. William Shakespeare

6. Francis Bacon

7. The Sixteenth - Century Prose and Thomas More

Chapter 6. The Seventeenth - Century English Literature

1. Historical Background

2. Literary Features

3. John Milton

4. John Bunyan

5. John Donne

6. John Dryden

Chapter 7. The Age of Enlightenment

1. Historical Background

2. Literary Background

3. Enlightenment

4. Alexander Pope

5. Daniel Defoe

6. Jonathan Swift

7. Samuel Johnson

8. Henry Fielding

9. Thomas Gray

10. Oliver Goldsmith

11. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

12. William Blake

13. Robert Burns

14. Samuel Richardson

Chapter 8. The Romantic English Literature

1. Historical Background

2. Romanticism

3. Literary Achievements

4. William Wordsworth

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. George Gordon Byron

7. Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. John Keats

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Part Ⅱ. American Literature

《英美文学史及精要选读》针对三本院校及专科院校的英语专业学生，精心梳理英美文学史的脉络，精选每个时期的重点作家，通过作家介绍、作品介绍、作品精选、问题思考及参考答案等五个部分，本着重点突出、简洁明了的原则，注重实际教学效果和方便学生使用，注重培养学生的欣赏思辨能力及应试能力。