Chaptar 1 Early and Medleval English Literature Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.The Making of England 2.The Anglo—Saxons Period 3.The Anglo—Norman Period Ⅱ.Literature 1.Anglo—Saxon Literature 2.Medieval English Literature Chapter 2 Renaissance Ⅰ.Historical Background 1. The Reformation 2.The Growth of Modern Science 3.The Reign of Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ 4. The Renaissance Ⅱ.Literature Chapter 3 The Period of English Bourgeois Revolution Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.House of Studwart 2. The Civil War 3 . Restoration 4.The Glorious Revolution Ⅱ.Literature 1.Metaphysical Poets 2. Cavalier Poets Chapter 4 Eighteenth Century English Literature Ⅰ.Historical Background 1 . Augustan Age 2.Industrial Revolution 3.Great Changes in Social Life 4.Enlightenment Ⅱ. Literature Chapter 5 Romanficism In England Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.Negative Influences of Industrial Revolution 2.French Revolution Ⅱ.Literature Chapfer 6 English Literafure of the Mid—and—Late—Nlnefeenth Cenrury Ⅰ.Historical Background The Victorian Age Ⅱ.Literature 1.The Early Period of Victorian Age 2.The Mid—Victorian Period 3.The Late Victorian Age Period Chapter 7 English Literature of the Twenfieth Century before World War Ⅱ Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.World War Ⅰ 2.World War Ⅱ Ⅱ.Literature PART TWO AMERICAN LITERATURE Chapter 1 The Literature of the Colonial America Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.The First American Farmers (5000 BC—2500 BC) 2.Columbian Discovery (AD 1492) 3.American Puritanism 4.The American Revolutionary War (1775—1783) Ⅱ.Literaturc 1.The Native American and Their Culture 2.The Colonial Period 3.Symbolism Chapter 2 American Romanticism and Transcendenfalism Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.Independent Nation 2.Westward Expansion 3.Growth of Industrialization Ⅱ.Literature 1.Early Romanticism 2.Late Romanticism Chapter 3 American Realism and American Naturalism Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.The Civil War ( 1861—1865) 2.Westward Expansion 3.Public Education Ⅱ.Literature 1.American Realism 2.American Naturalism Chapter 4 Twentieth Century American Literature before the War Ⅰ.Historical Background 1.World War Ⅰ ( 1914—1917) 2.The Jazz Age (the Roaring Twenties) 3.Great Depression 4.Roosevelt' s New Deal 5. World War Ⅱ ( 1939—1945 ) Ⅱ.Literature 1.American Modernism 2.Imagist Movement 3.The Lost Generation 4.Faulkner's Stream of Consciousness 5.American Realism 參考文獻(xiàn)