Chapter One English Literature in the Anglo-Saxon Period 1
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 1
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 2
Section Three The Poetry 4
Section Four The Prose 9
Chapter Two English Literature in the Medieval Period 13
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 13
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 15
Section Three The Poetry 19
Section Four The Prose 23
Section Five The Drama 24
Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance 26
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 26
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 29
Section Three The Poetry 36
Section Four The Prose 45
Section Five The Drama 51
Chapter Four English Literature in the Seventeenth Century 67
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 67
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 70
Section Three The Metaphysical Poets and the Cavalier Poets 73
Section Four John Milton 84
Section Five John Bunyan 89
Section Six The Restoration Drama 94
Section Seven John Dryden 98
Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century 104
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 104
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 106
Section Three The Poetry 111
Section Four Essays 122
Section Five The Fiction 131
Section Six The Drama 161
Chapter Six English Literature in the Romantic Age 165
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 165
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 168
Section Three The Poetry 175
Section Four The Novel 210
Section Five The Prose 224
Section Six The Drama 229
Chapter Seven English Literature in the Victorian Age 232
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 232
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 234
Section Three The Victorian Poetry 240
Section Four The Coming of Age of the Novel of Critical Realism 260
Section Five Several Minor Novelists 279
Section Six Several Female Novelists 288
Section Seven The Victorian Prose 300
Chapter Eight English Literature in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 313
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 313
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation 315
Section Three The Poetry 319
Section Four The Continuity of the Realistic Novels in the First Two Decades 332
Section Five The Precursors of the Modernist Novels 339
Section Six The Summit of the Modernist Novels 348
Section Seven The Novels of Social Satire 359
Section Eight The Short Fiction 365
Section Nine The Irish Dramatic Revival 367
Chapter Nine English Literature in the Second Haltof the Twentieth Century 376
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context 376
Section Two The Literarv Tradition and the Innovation 378
Section Three The Poetrv 381
Section Four The Novel 384
Section Five The Drama 412
后记 426