英國文學史

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)