Chapter One Early and Medieval English Literature 1
Section Ⅰ Introduction 1
Section Ⅱ Beowulf 12
Section Ⅲ Chaucer 16
SectionⅣ Early English Drama:Miracle Play,Mystery Play and Morality Play 21
Chapter Two English Literature of the Renaissance 27
Section Ⅰ Introduction 27
Section Ⅱ Thomas More 32
Section Ⅲ Shakespeare 35
Section Ⅳ Francis Bacon 47
Chapter Three English Literature of the 17th Century 55
Section Ⅰ Introduction 55
Section Ⅱ John Donne 57
Section Ⅲ John Milton 59
Section Ⅳ John Bunyan ane John Dryden 66
Chapter Four English Literature of the 18th Century 74
Section Ⅰ Introduction 74
Section Ⅱ Pope,Addison and Steele 76
Section Ⅲ The Beginning of English Realistic Novels Defoe,Swift and Fielding 80
Section Ⅳ Sentimentalism and Its Representatives 84
Section Ⅴ Pre-Romanticists:Blake and Burns 86
Chapter Five English Literature of the Romantic Period 91
Section Ⅰ Introduction 91
Section Ⅱ William Wordsworth 101
Section Ⅲ Samuel Taylor Coleridge 115
Section Ⅳ Lord George Gordon Byron 128
Section Ⅴ Percy Bysshe Shelley 145
Section Ⅵ John Keats 161
Section Ⅶ Hazlitt and Lamb 173
Chapter Six English Literature of the Victorian Age 191
Section Ⅰ Introduction 192
Section Ⅱ Charles Dickens 199
Section Ⅲ William M.Thackeray 218
Section Ⅳ Jane Austen and Bronte Sisters 231
Section Ⅴ Alfred Tennyson 261
Section Ⅵ Working Class Literature 267
Chapter Seven English Literature at the Turn of the Century 272
Section Ⅰ Introduction 272
Section Ⅱ Thomas Hardy 274
Section Ⅲ John Galsworthy 278
Section Ⅳ Bernard Shaw 290
Section Ⅴ The Schools of Naturalism,Neo-Romanticism and Aestheticism 295
Section Ⅵ Oscar Wilde 299
Chapter Eight English Literature Between the Two World Wars 302
Section Ⅰ Introduction 302
Section Ⅱ William Butler Yeats 310
Section Ⅲ Virginia Woolf 312
Section Ⅳ Edward Morgan Forster 315
Section Ⅴ David Herbert Lawrence 317
Section Ⅵ William Somerest Maugham 325
Section Ⅶ Thomas Steams Eliot 328
Chapter Nine English Literature after the Second World War 340
Section Ⅰ Introduction 340
Section Ⅱ Samuel Beckett 345
Section Ⅲ Larkin and"the Movement" 353
Section Ⅳ Kingsley Amis 358
Section Ⅴ William Golding 366
Section Ⅵ Dorris Lessing 381
Section Ⅶ Ted Hughes 388
Chapter One American Romanticism 395
Section Ⅰ Introduction 395
Section Ⅱ Washington Irving 398
Section Ⅲ James Fenimore Cooper 402
Section Ⅳ Edgar Allan Poe 406
Section Ⅴ Ralph Waldo Emerson 411
Section Ⅵ Henry David Thoreau 417
Section Ⅶ Nathaniel Hawthorne 422
Section Ⅷ Herman Melville 427
Section Ⅸ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 434
Chapter Two American Literature of the Realism 438
Section Ⅰ Introduction 438
Section Ⅱ Walt Whitman 440
Section Ⅲ Emily Dickinson 443
Section Ⅳ H.B Stowe and Mark Twain 446
Section Ⅴ O.Henry 452
Section Ⅵ Henry James 462
Section Ⅶ Jack London 468
Section Ⅷ Theodore Dreiser 475
Chapter Three American Literature Between the Two World Wars 480
Section Ⅰ Introduction 480
Section Ⅱ Ezra Pound and Imagism 485
Section Ⅲ E.E cummings 491
Section Ⅳ Ernest Hemingway 495
Section Ⅴ F.Scott Fitzgerald 506
Section Ⅵ Sinclair Lewis 510
Section Ⅶ William Faulkner 514
Section Ⅷ John Steinbeck 519
Section Ⅸ Eugene O'Neil 524
Chapter Four American Literature After the Second World War 530
Section Ⅰ Introduction 530
Section Ⅱ "The Beat Generation"and Allen Ginsberg 541
Section Ⅲ Black Writers:Hughes and Wright 545
Section Ⅳ Modern American Drama 550
Section Ⅴ John Updike 566
Section Ⅵ The Jewish Writers:Bellow and Mailer 568
Section Ⅶ The Feminist Writers:Porter and Plath 576
Section Ⅷ Black Humour:Joseph Heller 584