Chapter 1 Introduction to Literature as a Whole 1
Chapter 2 British Literature in the Old and Middle English Period 11
Chapter 3 British Literature in the Renaissance 22
Chapter 4 British Literature from the Neoclassical to the Romantic Period 33
Chapter 5 British Literature in the Victorian Period 44
Chapter 6 British Literature from the Edwardian to the Modern Period 54
Chapter 7 American Literature from the Colonial to the Early National Period 64
Chapter 8 American Literature in the Romantic Period 74
Chapter 9 American Literature in the Realistic Period 84
Chapter 10 American Literature in the Modern Period 95
Keys 105
References 108