Contents
Part I The Middle Ages
Unit1 Old English Literature¡¡¡¡¡¡¡3
1.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡3
1.2 Beowulf¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡4
Unit 2 Middle English Literature¡¡¡¡¡¡¡8
2.1 Overview¡¡¡¡¡8
2.2 Geoffrey Chaucer ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡9
Part ¢ò English Renaissance
Unit 3 Renaissance Poetry ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡19
3.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡19
3.2 Elizabethan Poets ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡19
3.3 Metaphysical Poets¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡25
3.4 John Miton¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡28
Unit4 Elizabethan Drama¡¡¡¡¡¡¡36
4.1 Overview¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡36
4.2 The University Wits¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡36
4.3 William Shakespeare¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡37
Part ¢ó The Neoclassical Age
Unit 5 Neoclassical Poetry¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡57
5.1 Overview ¡¡¡57
5.2 Alexander Pope¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡57
Unit 6 The 18th-Century Novels¡¡¡¡¡¡63
6.1 Overview¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡63
6.2 Daniel Defoe¡¡¡¡¡¡65
6.3 Samuel Richardson¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡83
6.4 Henry Fielding¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡89
Part IV The Romantic Age
Unit 7 Pre-Romantic and Early Romantic Poetry..99
7.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡99
7.2 William Blake¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡99
7.3 Robert Bums¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡104
7.4 William Wordsworth¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡108
7.5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡112
Unit 8 Later Romantic Poetry¡¡¡¡¡¡¡117
8.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡¡117
8.2 George Gordon Byron¡¡¡¡¡¡¡118
8.3 Perey Bysshe Shelley ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡125
8.4 John Keats ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡133
Part V The Victorian Age
Unit 9 Female Novelists of the 19th Century..143
9.1 Overview¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡143
9.2 Jane Austen¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡143
9.3 Charlotte Bronte¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡151
9.4 George Eliot ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡163
Unit 10 Male Novelists of the 19th Century¡¡173
10.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡173
10.2 Charles Dickens ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡173
10.3 William Makepeace Thackeray¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡184
10.4 Thomas Hardy ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡193
Unit 11 Victorian Poetry¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡199
11.1 Overview¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡199
11.2 Alfred Tennyson ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡200
11.3 Robert Browning¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡203
Unit 12 Victorian Drama¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡208
12.1 Overview¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡208
12.2 Oscar Wilde ¡¡¡¡¡¡208
12.3 George Bemard Shaw¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡227
Part VI Modern Literature
Unit 13 Modernist Poetry¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡241
13.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡¡¡241
13.2 William Butler Yeats¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡241
13.3 T.S.Eliot¡¡¡¡¡¡¡246
Unit 14 Modernist Fiction¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡251
14.1 Overview ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡251
14.2 Virginia Woolf ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡252
14.3 James Joyee ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡257
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