Chapter One Old English Literature
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 The Development of the English Language
1.3 Literary Features
1.4 Representative Writers and Works
1.5 Beowulf and the Heroic Epic Tradition
Chapter Two Middle English Literature (1066每1510)
2.1 Historical Background
2.2 Literary Features
2.3 Romance and Sir Gawain
2.4 Popular Ballad
2.5 Medieval Drama
2.6 William Langland and Piers Plowman
2.7 Geoffrey Chaucer (1942/43每1400)
2.8 Reading
Chapter Three Literature of Renaissance and Reformation
(1510每1620)
3.1 Historical Background
3.2 Literary Features
3.3 Renaissance Poetry
3.3.1 Sir Phillip Sydney (1554每1586)
3.3.2 Edmund Spenser (1552每1599)
3.4 Renaissance Prose
3.5 Renaissance Drama
3.6 William Shakespeare (1564每1616) 3.7 Reading
Chapter Four Literature of Revolution and Restoration
(1620每1690)
4.1 Historical Background
4.2 Literary Features
4.3 Seventeenth-Century Prose
4.3.1 Francis Bacon (1561每1626)
4.3.2 John Bunyan (1628每1688) 4.4 Seventeenth-Century Drama
4.5 Seventeenth-Century Poetry
4.5.1 John Donne (1572每1631)
4.5.2 John Dryden (1631每1700)
4.6 John Milton (1608每1674)
4.7 Reading
Chapter Five The Eighteenth-Century Literature (1690每1780)
5.1 Historical Background
5.2 Literary Features
5.3 Eighteenth-Century Poetry
5.3.1 Alexander Pope (1688每1744)
5.3.2 James Thomson (1700每1748)
5.3.3 Thomas Gray (1716每1771)
5.4 Eighteenth-Century Prose
5.4.1 Jonathan Swift (1667每1745)
5.4.2 Joseph Addison (1672每1719) and Sir Richard Steele (1672每1729)
5.4.3 Samuel Johnson (1709每1784)
5.4.4 Edward Gibbon (1737每1794)
5.5 Eighteenth-Century Novel
5.5.1 Daniel Defoe (1660每1731)
5.5.2 Samuel Richardson (1689每1761)
5.5.3 Henry Fielding (1707每1754)
5.5.4 Laurence Sterne (1713每1768)
5.5.5 Tobias Smollett (1721每1771)
5.5.6 Oliver Goldsmith (1730每1774)
5.6 Eighteenth-Century Drama
5.6.1 Oliver Goldsmith (1730每1774)
5.6.2 Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751每1816)
5.7 Reading
Chapter Six The Literature of the Romantic Period (1780每1831)
6.1 Historical Background
6.2 Literary Features
6.3 Romantic Poetry
6.3.1 William Blake (1757每1827)
6.3.2 William Wordsworth (1770每1850)
6.3.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772每1834)
6.3.4 Robert Burns (1754每1796)
6.3.5 Walter Scott (1771每1832)
6.3.6 George Gordon Byron (1788每1824)
6.3.7 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792每1822)
6.3.8 John Keats (1795每1821)
6.4 Romantic Essayists
6.4.1 Thomas De Quincey (1785每1859)
6.4.2 William Hazlitt (1778每1870)
6.4.3 Charles Lamb (1775每1834)
6.5 Romantic Novels
6.5.1 Jane Austen (1775每1817)
6.5.2 Walter Scott (1771每1832)
6.6 Reading
Chapter Seven Victorian Literature (1832每1900)
7.1 Historical Background
7.2 Literary Features
7.3 Victorian Novel
7.3.1 Charles Dickens (1812每1870)
7.3.2 William Makepeace Thackeray (1811每1863)
7.3.3 The Bront? Sisters (1818每1848, 1820每1849)
7.3.4 George Eliot (1819每1880)
7.3.5 Elizabeth Gaskell (1810每1865)
7.3.6 George Meredith (1828每1909)
7.3.7 Wilkie Collins (1824每1889)
7.3.8 Anthony Trollope (1815每1882)
7.3.9 Thomas Hardy (1840每1928)
7.3.10 George Gissing (1857每1903)
7.3.11 George Moore (1852每1933)
7.3.12 Samuel Butler (1835每1902)
7.3.13 William Morris (1834每1896)
7.3.14 Robert Louise Stevenson (1850每1894)
7.3.15 Henry James (1848每1916)
7.3.16 Rudyard Kipling (1865每1936)
7.4 Victorian Poetry
7.4.1 Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809每1892)
7.4.2 Robert Browning (1812每1889)
7.4.3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806每1861)
7.4.4 Mathew Arnold (1822每1888)
7.4.5 Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837每1909)
7.4.6 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828每1882)
7.4.7 Christina Rossetti (1830每1894)
7.5 Victorian Critics and Historians
7.5.1 Thomas Carlyle (1795每1881)
7.5.2 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800每1859)
7.5.3 John Ruskin (1819每1900)
7.6 Victorian Drama
7.6.1 Oscar Wilde (1854每1900)
7.6.2 George Bernard Shaw (1856每1950)
7.7 Reading
Chapter Eight The Twentieth-Century Literature (1900每1945)
8.1 Historical Background
8.2 Literary Features
8.3 Modern Poetry
8.3.1 Thomas Hardy (1840每1928)
8.3.2 William Butler Yeats (1865每1939) 8.3.3 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888每1965)
8.3.4 Edward Thomas (1871每1917)
8.3.5 Wilfred Owen (1893每1918)
8.3.6 Wystan Hugh Auden (1907每1973)
8.4 Modern Drama
8.4.1 John Millington Synge (1871每1909)
8.4.2 Sean O＊Casey (1880每1964)
8.4.3 No?l Coward (1899每1973)
8.4.4 John Boynton Priestley (1894每1984)
8.4.5 William Somerset Maugham (1874每1965)
8.5 Modern Novels
8.5.1 John Galsworthy (1867每1933)
8.5.2 Herbert George Wells (1866每1946)
8.5.3 Arnold Bennett (1867每1931)
8.5.4 Edward Morgan Forster (1879每1970)
8.5.5 Joseph Conrad (1857每1924)
8.5.6 David Herbert Lawrence (1885每1930)
8.5.7 James Joyce (1882每1941)
8.5.8 Virginia Woolf (1882每1941)
8.5.9 Dorothy Richardson (1872每1957)
8.5.10 May Sinclair (1863每1946)
8.5.11 Katherine Mansfield (1888每1923)
8.5.12 Aldous Huxley (1894每1963)
8.5.13 Evelyn Waugh (1903每1966)
8.5.14 Henry Green (1905每1973)
8.5.15 Graham Greene (1904每1991)
8.5.16 Christopher Isherwood (1904每1985)
8.5.17 George Orwell (1903每1950)
8.6 Reading
Chapter Nine English Literature (Since 1945)
9.1 Historical Background
9.2 Literary Features
9.3 Drama
9.3.1 Samuel Beckett (1906每1989)
9.3.2 John Osborne (1929每1994)
9.3.3 Harold Pinter (1930每2008)
9.3.4 Arnold Wesker (1932每 )
9.3.5 Joe Orton (1933每1967)
9.3.6 Tom Stoppard (1937每 )
9.3.7 Alan Ayckbourn (1939每 )
9.3.8 Edward Bond (1934每 )
9.3.9 David Hare (1947每 )
9.3.10 Howard Brenton (1942每 )
9.3.11 Caryl Churchill (1938每 ) 9.4 Novel
9.4.1 William Golding (1911每1993)
9.4.2 John Fowles (1926每2005)
9.4.3 Augus Wilson (1913每1991)
9.4.4 Alan Sillitoe (1928每2010)
9.4.5 Kingsley Amis (1922每1995)
9.4.6 Martin Amis (1949每 )
9.4.7 Salman Rushdie (1947每 )
9.4.8 Doris Lessing (1919每2013)
9.4.9 Antonia Susan Byatt (1936每2023)
9.4.10 Muriel Spark (1918每2006)
9.4.11 Iris Murdoch (1919每1999)
9.4.12 Angela Carter (1940每1992)
9.5 Poetry
9.5.1 Dylan Thomas (1914每1953)
9.5.2 Philip Larkin (1922每1985)
9.5.3 Ted Hughes (1930每1998)
9.5.4 Tony Harrison (1937每 )
9.5.5 Seamus Heaney (1939每2013)
9.6 Reading
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