Chapter Ⅵ ENGLISH LITERATURE OFEARLY 19TH CENTURY 1
Section Ⅰ The Historical Background and the Literary Trends inEarly 19th-Century England 1
1.The Historical Background:Economic,Political and Ideo-logical 1
2.The Literary Trends:The Romantic Movement in EnglishLiterature as Part of the Romantic Movement in EuropeanLiterature;Wordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,Shelley and Keats;the Prose Fiction of Walter Scott and Jane Austen;theDifferent Schools of Prose Writers 3
Section Ⅱ Romantic Poetry in Early 19th-Century England 5
1.Wordsworth 5
2.Coleridge 39
3.Byron 59
4.Shelley 90
5.Keats 119
Section Ⅲ English Prose in Early 19th Century 132
1.Prose Fiction:Walter Scott;Jane Austen 132
2.Significant Writers ofProse in Late 1 8th and Early 19th Cen-turies:William Godwin,Paine,Cobbett 149
3.Essayists in Early 19th Century:William Hazlitt,CharlesLamb;Thomas De Quincey 159
Chapter Ⅶ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY 177
Section Ⅰ The Historical Background:Social and Intellectual 177
Section Ⅱ Chartist Literature 184
1.A General Survey of Chartist Literature:DifferentLiterary Genres,Stages of Development 184
2.Two Major Chartist Poets:Ernest Jones and WilliamJames Linton 188
3.Gerald Massey and Minor Chartist Poets 197
4.Chartist Prose Fiction:Thomas Martin Wheeler,Thomas Frost 199
Section Ⅲ Democratic Poetry in the Age of Chartism 205
1.Thomas Hood and His"Song of the Shirt" 205
2.Ebenezer Elliott the Corn-Law Rhymer 207
3.Elizabeth Barrett Browning and"The Cry of the Chil-dren" 210
Section Ⅳ Major Novelists of Critical Realism in the Mid-19thCentury 212
1.Charles Dickens 212
2.William Makepeace Thackeray 241
3.Elizabeth Gaskell 254
4.Charlotte Brontё 258
5.Emily Brontё 261
6.George Eliot 264
Section Ⅴ Major English Poets of the Mid-19th Century 271
1.Alfred Tennyson 271
2.Robert Browning 285
3.Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough 301
4.Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti 313
5.Algernon Charles Swinburne 318
6.Edward Fitzgerald's Translation of the"Rubaiyat ofOmar Khayyam" 326
Section Ⅵ Non-Fiction Prose in Mid-19th-Century England 328
1.Thomas Carlyle 329
2.Thomas Babington Macaulay 337
3.John Ruskin 340
4.John Henry Newman 350
5.John Stuart Mill 358
6.Thomas Henry Huxley 367
Section Ⅶ Minor Victorian Novelists:Charles Kingsley,Benjamin Disraeli,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,CharlesReade,Wilkie Collins,Anthony Trollope 372
Chapter Ⅷ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LASTQUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY 381
Section Ⅰ The Historical Background and the DifferentLiterary Schools 381
1.The Historical Background:Political and Ideological 381
2.The Different Literary Groups and Their Characteristics 385
Section Ⅱ William Morris and Other Writers of the 1880's 387
1.William Morris 387
2.Other Poets in the Socialist Movement of the 1880s:Joynes,Salt,Connell 404
3.Prose Writers in the Socialist Movement of the 1880s:Bramsbury and Others 409
Section Ⅲ Critical Realists and Other Progressive Writers 417
1.George Meredith 417
2.Thomas Hardy 425
3.Samuel Butler 440
4.Voynich 451
5.Mark Rutherford 455
6.Wilfrid Blunt 458
Section Ⅳ The Schools of Naturalism,Neo-Romanticism andAestheticism 460
1.The Naturalists:Gissing,Moore 460
2.The School of Aestheticism:Walter Pater,OscarWilde 464
3.Neo-romanticism:Robert Louis Stevenson 470
Section Ⅴ Apologists of Imperialism and Colonialism:Rudyard Kipling,W.E.Henley 475