Part OneChapter One The Bible and British Literature 1
Introduction to the Bible 2
Section One:Important Biblical Characters 4
Selected Reading:Paradise Lost by John Milton 7
Section Two:Important Biblical Themes—Christian Virtues 9
Selected Reading:The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 13
Section Three:Biblical Imagery 14
Selected Reading:Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 15
Chapter Two Greek Mythology and British Literature 19
Introduction to Greek Mythology 20
Greek Mythology in British Literature 31
Selected Readings 32
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 32
Sonnet ⅩⅩⅢ:Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint by John Milton 44
The Garden by Andrew Marvell 46
Chapter Three British Society and British Literature 51
Section One:English Renaissance and Humanism 52
Selected Reading:Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare 56
Section Two:Metaphysical Poetry and English Society in the Early 17th Century 57
Selected Reading:A Valediction:Forbidden Mourning by John Donne 60
Section Three:Literature in English Revolution and Restoration Period 62
Selected Reading:Pilgrim's Progress byJohn Bunyan 65
Section Four:Neo-Classicism 68
Selected Reading:Epigrams by Alexander Pope 69
Section Five:English Romanticism 70
Selected Reading:The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron 73
Section Six:Critical Realism 75
Selected Reading:Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 78
Section Seven:Aestheticism 80
Selected Reading:The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 82
Section Eight:British Modernism 84
Selected Reading:Araby by James Joyce 86
Part TwoChapter Four British Poetry 93
Key Questions to the Art of Poetry 95
Sample Analysis:The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats 98
Selected Readings 101
The Passionate Sbepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 101
Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare 103
Death,Be Not Proud by John Donne 104
A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns 105
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth 107
When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron 109
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 111
The Eagle:A Fragment by Alfred Tennyson 113
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas 114
Chapter Five British Fiction 117
Key Questions to the Art of Fiction 119
Selected Readings 122
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 122
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 128
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё 134
Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence 146
Chapter Six British Drama 157
Key Questions to the Art of Drama 158
Selected Readings 161
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 161
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 167
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 186
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 196
参考文献 207