Lecture 1 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343—1400) 1
1．Background questions 1
2．Selected readings 1
Text A:The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales 2
Text B:The Prologue of"The Wife of Bath's Tale" 5
3．Assigned readings 11
Lecture 2 Christopher Marlowe(1564—1593) 24
1．Background questions 24
2．Selected readings 24
Text A:Dr.Faustus,Scene 3 25
Text B:Dr.Faustus,Scene 13 ＆ the Epilogue 30
3．Assigned readings 33
Lecture 3 William Shakespeare(1564—1616) 48
1．Background questions 48
2．Selected readings 48
Text A:Hamlet,Act 3,Scene 1 48
Text B:Hamlet,Act 2,Scene 2 50
3．Assigned readings 52
Lecture 4 John Donne(1572—1631) 57
1．Background questions 57
2．Selected readings 57
Text A:The Sun Rising 58
Text B:Holy Sonnets,14 59
3．Assigned readings 60
Lecture 5 John Milton(1608—1674) 63
1．Background questions 63
2．Selected readings 63
Text A:When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 63
Text B:Paradise Lost,Book 1 64
3．Assigned reading 66
Lecture 6 Alexander Pope(1688—1744) 74
1．Background questions 74
2．Selected readings 74
Text A:An excerpt from An Essay on Criticism 74
Text B:An excerpt from An Essay on Man 78
3．Assigned readings 80
Lecture 7 Daniel Defoe(1660—1731) 88
1．Background questions 88
2．Selected readings 88
Text A:An excerpt from Chapter 4 of Robinson Crusoe 88
Text B:Excerpts from Chapters 14 and 15 of Robinson Crusoe 98
3．Assigned reading 110
Lecture 8 Jonathan Swift(1667—1745) 117
1．Background questions 117
2．Selected readings 117
Text A:Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Gulliver's Travels 117
Text B:A Modest Proposal 125
3．Assigned reading 134
Lecture 9 Henry Fielding(1707—1754) 142
1．Background questions 142
2．Selected readings 142
Text A:Chapter 8 of Book 4,Vol.1 of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling 142
Text B:Chapter 1 of Book 14,Vol.2 of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling 148
3．Assigned reading 152
Lecture 10 William Blake(1757—1827) 157
1．Background questions 157
2．Selected readings 157
Text A:The Chimney Sweeper(from Songs of Innocence) 158
Text B:The Chimney Sweeper(from Songs of Experience) 159
3．Assigned readings 160
Lecture 11 William Wordsworth(1770—1850)and Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772—1834) 164
1．Background questions 164
2．Selected reading 1 164
Text A:I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 164
3．Selected reading 2 166
Text B:Kubla Khan 166
4．Assigned readings 169
Lecture 12 Lord Byron(1788—1827),Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792—1822),and John Keats(1795—1821) 181
1．Background questions 181
2．Selected reading 1 181
Text A:Manfred,Act 3 181
3．Selected reading 2 186
Text B:Ode to the West Wind 186
4．Selected reading 3 191
Text C:Ode to a Grecian Urn 191
5．Assigned readings 193
Lecture 13 Jane Austen(1775—1817) 200
1．Background questions 200
2．Selected readings 200
Text A:Volume 1,Chapter 1 of Prideand Prejudice 200
Text B:Volume 3,Chapter 14 of Prideand Prejudice 203
3．Assigned reading 211
Lecture 14 William Makepeace Thackeray(1811—1863) 216
1．Background questions 216
2．Selected readings 216
Text A:Chapter 1"Chiswick Mall"ofVanity Fair 217
Text B:An excerpt from Chapter 36"How to Live Well on Nothing a Year"of Vanity Fair 225
3．Assigned readings 233
Lecture 15 Charles Dickens(1812—1870) 240
1．Background questions 240
2．Selected readings 240
Text A:An excerpt from Chapter 4 of David Copper field 241
Text B:Chapter 3 of Oliver Twist 246
3．Assigned reading 255
Lecture 16 Charlotte Bront？(1816—1855)and Emily Bront？(1818—1848) 269
1．Background questions 269
2．Selected readings 1 269
Text A:An excerpt from Chapter 14 of Jane Eyre 270
Text B:An excerpt from Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre 276
3．Selected readings 2 282
Text C:An excerpt from Chapter 9 of Wuthering Heights 282
Text D:An excerpt from Chapter 15 ofWuthering Heights 288
4．Assigned readings 293
Lecture 17 Alfred Tennyson(1809—1892)and Robert Browning(1812—1889) 311
1．Background questions 311
2．Selected readings 1 311
Text A:Crossing the Bar 312
Text B:Ulysses 313
3．Selected reading 2 317
Text C:My Last Duchess 318
4．Assigned readings 320
Lecture 18 Thomas Hardy(1840—1928) 323
1．Background questions 323
2．Selected readings 323
Text A:An excerpt from Chapter 19 of Tess of the D'Urbervilles 323
Text B:Excerpts from Chapter 42 and Chapter 43 of Tess of the D'Urbervilles 329
3．Assigned readings 343