英国文学选读

Chapter 01 The Renaissance Period William Shakespeare Shakespeare's life Shakespeare's literary, creation Selected readings Hamlet A plot summary of Hamlet Reading guide An excerpt from Hamlet Sonnet 18Chapter 02 The Puritan Age John Donne John Donne's life John Donne's literary creation Selected readings

Chapter 01 The Renaissance Period William Shakespeare Shakespeare's life Shakespeare's literary, creation Selected readings Hamlet A plot summary of Hamlet Reading guide An excerpt from Hamlet Sonnet 18Chapter 02 The Puritan Age John Donne John Donne's life John Donne's literary creation Selected readings Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star The Sun Rising A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Milton John Milton's life John Milton's literary creation Features of Milton's poetry Selected readings Paradise Lost A plot summary of Paradise Lost Reading guide An excerpt from Paradise Lost On His Blindness John Bunyan John Bunyan's life Bunyan's literary creation Selected reading The Pilgrim's Progress A plot summary of the allegory Reading guide An excerpt from The Pilgrim's ProgressChapter 03 The Neoclassical Period Jonathan Swift Swift's life Swift's literary creation Selected readings A Modest Proposal Gulliver's Travels A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Part 1 Henry Fielding Fielding's life Fielding's literary creation Selected reading Tom Jones A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Chapter Ⅷ, Book Ⅲ An excerpt from Chapter Ⅹ, Book Ⅲ An excerpt from Chapter Ⅶ, Book Ⅶ Thomas Gray Gray's life Works of Gray Selected reading Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardChapter 04 The Age of Romanticism William Wordsworth Wordsworth's life Wordsworth's literary creation Selected readings She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Solitary Reaper Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey George Gordon, Lord Byron Byron's life Byron's poetic writing Features of Byron's poetry Selected readings She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted Childe Harold's Pilgrimage A plot summary of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Reading guide An excerpt from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage(Canto the Third) Don Juan A plot summary of Don Juan Reading guide An excerpt from Don Juan (Canto Ⅲ The Isles of Greece) jane Austen Austen's life Austen's works Selected reading Pride and Prejudice A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Pride and PrejudiceChapter 05 The Victorian Period Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tennyson's life Tennyson's poetic writing Features of Tennyson's poetry Selected readings Break, Break, Break The Eagle Ulysses In Memoriam (CXXX) Charles Dickens Dickens' life Dickens' works Characteristics of Dickens' novels Selected reading Oliver Twist The story of Oliver Twist Reading guide An excerpt from Oliver Twist Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte's life Charlotte Bronte's works Selected reading Jane Eyre A plot surhmary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Jane Eyre Thomas Hardy Hardy's life Hardy's works Selected reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Tess of the D'UrbervillesChapter 06 The Modern Period D. H. Lawrence Lawrence's life Lawrence's literary creation Selected reading Sons and Lovers A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Sons and Lovers Virginia Woolf Woolf's life Woolf's literary creation Selected reading Mrs. Dalloway A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Mrs. DallowayChapter 07 The Postmodern Period Kingsley Amis Amis' life Amis' literary creation Selected reading Lucky Jim A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Lucky Jim Samuel Beckett Beckett's life Beckett's literary creationSelected reading Waiting for Godot (Act I) A plot summary of the play Reading guide An excerpt from Waiting for Godot

本书选取了英国16世纪文艺复兴时期到20世纪后现代主义时期的18位经典作家及其经典作品。作家作品的编选以反映英国文学思潮的历史发展脉络为核心，贯穿英国文学史中的人文主义—玄学诗派—现实主义—新古典主义—感伤主义—(前)浪漫主义—批判现实主义—喜剧独白—唯美主义—现代主义—后现代主义的发展主线。从每种文学思潮中选取一位代表性作家，按照相关文学背景知识——作家生平简单介绍——作品导读——作品选读——选读注释——课后讨论题的体例进行编写，目的是让读者通过具体的作品来历史地观照当时的文学思潮，同时又能够把作家作品纳入当时的文学思潮来阅读，更加精深、透彻地把握和理解作家作品。