内容简介: This is an attempt to write a history of English literature admittedly with an innovative approach. The traditional as well as the more modern views in the West on literary movements, schools, traditions and influences in the field of English literature and on individual English authors and their major and minor works are here given due respect and serious consideration, but with the reservation sometimes to differ and occasionally to introduce new and totally contrary judgments from the viewpoint of historical materialism i.e., the writers and their writings are to be given their proper places in each case in accordance with the roles, healthful or otherwise, that they play in the progress of history, social and literary. Of course,whether or how far have I succeeded in these pages in living up to the theory advanced above awaits judgment from my readers. 目录: Chapter Ⅰ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
1.The Historical Background
2.“Beowulf” the National Epic of the Anglo-Saxons
3.Minor Anglo-Saxon Poetry:Caedmon and Cynewulf
4.Anglo-Saxon Prose: Bede;Alfred; “The Anglo Saxon Chronicle”;Aelfric
Chapter Ⅱ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Section Ⅰ English Literature from the Mid-11th Century to the Mid-14th
1.The Background: Political and Social
2.Folk Literature and Religious Literature from the Mid-11th to the Mid-14th Century
3.Early Alliterative and Metrical Romances in the 12th, 13th and Early 14th Centuries
Section Ⅱ English Literatuire of the Second Half of the 14th Century
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