目录 Part 1 British Literature and Culture Chapter 1 Early English Literature and Culture The Background of Early British Culture Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 -1400) Selected Reading Excerpt from Beowulf Chapter 2 The Sixteenth Century. The Renaissance and the Reign of Elizabeth The Renaissance William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616) Selected Reading Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century. The Bourgeois Revolution The Bourgeois Revolution Francis Bacon ( 1561 - 1626) John Milton ( 1608 - 1674 ) Selected Reading Excerpt from Paradise Lost Excerpt from The Holy Bible ( King James Version of 1611 ) Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century. The Neoclassicism Era The Age of Enlightenment The Neoclassicism Era Alexander Pope ( 1688 - 1744 ) Jonathan Swift ( 1667 - 1745 ) Samuel Johnson ( 1709 - 1784 ) Selected Reading Excerpt from Gulliver's Travels Chapter 15 The 1950s and the Beat Generation The Cold War The Beat Generation Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 - 1997 ) Jack Kerouac ( 1922 - 1969) William Seward Burroughs ( 1914 - 1997 ) Jerome David Salinger ( 1919 - 2010) Selected Reading Excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 16 The 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement Feminism Vietnam War Hippies Black Humor Yuppies Ralph Ellison ( 1914 - 1994) Joseph Heller ( 1923 - 1999) Norman Kingsley Mailer ( 1923 - 2007 ) John Hoyer Updike ( 1932 - 2009) Selected Reading Excerpt from Invisible Man Works Cited Chapter 5 The Early Nineteenth Century and the Flowering of Romanticism Romanticism Lake Poets William Wordsworth ( 1770 - 1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 - 1834) George Gordon Byron ( 1788 - 1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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