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Part Ⅰ　Old and Middle English Periods(450-1485) 1

Chapter 1　Old English Period and Beowulf 3

Ⅰ．Old English Period 3

Ⅱ．Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Beowulf 6

Chapter 2　Middle English Period and Chaucer 11

Ⅰ．Middle English Period 11

Ⅱ．Geoffrey Chaucer 16

Part Ⅱ　English Renaissance and Shakespeare(1485-1616) 27

Chapter 3　The English Renaissance Literature 29

Ⅰ．Introduction of the Period 29

Ⅱ．Ten Renaissance Writers 32

Chapter 4　William Shakespeare 44

Ⅰ．Shakespeare's Life and Achievements 44

Ⅱ．Discussions of Shakespeare's Major Works 45

Part Ⅲ　The Seventeenth Century(1616-1688) 61

Chapter 5　The Bourgeois Revolution and Milton 63

Ⅰ．Background Knowledge 63

Ⅱ．John Milton 67

Chapter 6　The Metaphysical Poets and the Restoration Drama 78

Ⅰ．The Metaphysical Poets 78

Ⅱ．The Restoration Drama 84

Chapter 7　Dryden and Bunyan 89

Ⅰ．John Dryden 89

Ⅱ．John Bunyan 94

Part Ⅳ　The Eighteenth Century(1688-1780) 103

Chapter 8　The Age of Classicism 105

Ⅰ．Background Knowledge of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 105

Ⅱ．Discussions of the Chief Representatives 108

Chapter 9　The Rise of the Novel 127

Ⅰ．Background Knowledge About the Rise of the Novel in England 127

Ⅱ．Discussions of the Major Novelists 129

Chapter 10 The Pre-Romantic Literature 149

Ⅰ．Background Knowledge About the Literature at the Turn of the Century 149

Ⅱ．Pre-Romantic Poetry 151

Ⅲ．The Gothic Novel 161

Part Ⅴ　The Romantic Period(1780-1830) 167

Chapter 11　Wordsworth and Coleridge 169

Ⅰ． Background Knowledge 169

Ⅱ．The Romantic Sage,William Wordsworth 173

Ⅲ．Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Poet and Critic 181

Chapter 12　Byron,Shelley and Keats 185

Ⅰ．George Gordon Byron and the Byronic Hero 186

Ⅱ．Percy Bysshe Shelley,Poet and Utopian Socialist 190

Ⅲ．John Keats,the Poet of Beauty 197

Chapter 13　Walter Scott and Jane Austen 205

Ⅰ．Walter Scott,Romantic Writer of Historical Themes 205

Ⅱ．Jane Austen,Novelist of Social Manners 209

Part Ⅵ　The Victorian Literature(1830-1880) 219

Chapter 14　The Victorian Age 221

Ⅰ．Background Knowledge 221

Ⅱ．Major Literary Achievements 225

Chapter 15 Victorian Novelists 228

Ⅰ．Charies Dickens 229

Ⅱ．William Makepeace Thackeray 240

Ⅲ．Charlotte and Emily Brontё 243

Ⅳ．George Eliot 249

Chapter 16 Victorian Poets 256

Ⅰ．Alfred Tennyson 257

Ⅱ．Robert Browning 264

Ⅲ．Dante Gabriel Rossetti 275

Ⅳ．Matthew Arnold as a Poet 278

Chapter 17 Victorian Prose Writers 284

Ⅰ．Thomas Carlyle 285

Ⅱ．Thomas Macaulay 287

Ⅲ．John Stuart Mill 289

Ⅳ．John Ruskin 292

Ⅴ．Matthew Arnold 295

Part Ⅶ　Fin de siècle and Modernist Literature(1880-1930) 301

Chapter 18 Fin de siècle 303

Ⅰ．Historical Background 303

Ⅱ．Intellectual Background 308

Chapter 19 Later Victorian to the First World War 310

Ⅰ．Fin de siècle Aestheticism 310

Ⅱ．Late Victorian Poetry 313

Ⅲ．Novels of This Period 321

Ⅳ．Drama of This Period 338

Ⅴ．Other Writers of This Period 343

Chapter 20 Modernist Literature 346

Ⅰ．Background Knowledge 346

Ⅱ．Modernist Novel and Novelists 347

Ⅲ．Modernist Poetry 356

Chapter 21 Non-Modernists Between the Wars 365

Ⅰ．Refections on War and History 365

Ⅱ．Writers Between the Wars 366

Ⅲ．The Rise of Academic English Studies 377

Part Ⅷ Mid-Twentieth Century(1930-1990) 385

Chapter 22 The Second World War 387

Chapter 23 Literature of the Second World War 392

Ⅰ．Surrealism 392

Ⅱ．War Poets 393

Ⅲ．Other Writers of This Period 394

Chapter 24 Postwar Literature 398

Ⅰ．Novels of This Period 398

Ⅱ．Drama of This Period 420

Ⅲ．Poetry of This Period 434

Chapter 25 Towards the New Century 451

Self Test 462

References 466

Chronology 468

Glossary of Literary Terms 474

Key to the Quizes and Self Test 478

Index of British Writers 481