目录 Preface Part One The Anglo-Saxon Period Chapter 1 The Early Invasions of the British Isles Chapter 2 Anglo-Saxon Literature 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Prose Part Two The Medieval Age Chapter 3 Anglo-Norman Literature 3.1 Norman Conquest 3.2 Literature Chapter 4 Literature in the Age of Chaucer 4.1 William Langland 4.2 Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter 5 Literature in the 15th Century 5.1 Popular Ballads 5.2 Sir Thomas Malory Part Three The Renaissance Period Chapter 6 English Renaissance 6.1 Background 6.2 Renaissance Chapter 7 Poetry in the Renaissance Period 7.1 Sir Thomas Wyatt 7.2 Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey 7.3 Sir Philip Sidney 7.4 Edmund Spenser Chapter 8 Prose in the Renaissance Period 8.1 Sir Thomas More 8.2 John Lyly 8.3 Thomas Nashe 8.4 Francis Bacon Chapter 9 Drama in the Renaissance Period 9.1 English Drama 9.2 Thomas Kyd 9.3 Christopher Marlowe 9.4 William Shakespeare 9.5 Ben Jonson Part Four The Period of Revolution and Restoration Chapter 10 Historical Context Chapter 11 Literature in the Period of Revolution 11.1 Literary Characteristics 11.2 Metaphysical Poets 11.3 Cavalier Poets 11.4 John Milton Chapter 12 Literature in the Period of Restoration 12.1 Literary Characteristics 12.2 John Bunyan 12.3 John Dryden 12.4 The Restoration Theater Part Five The Age of Enlightenment Chapter 13 Introduction 13.1 Background 13.2 Enlightenment 13.3 Literature Chapter 14 Neoclassical School 14.1 Alexander Pope 14.2 Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele 14.3 Samuel Johnson 14.4 James Boswell Chapter 15 Fiction of Realistic Tradition 15.1 Daniel Defoe 15.2 lonathan Swift 15.3 Henry Fielding 15.4 Tobias George Smollett Chapter 16 Sentimentalist Novels 16.1 Samuel Richardson 16.2 Laurence Sterne 16.3 Oliver Goldsmith Chapter 17 Poetry of Pre-Romantieism and Sentimentalism 17.1 Fre-Romantieism 17.2 Sentimentalism 17.3 Representative Poets Chapter 18 Drama in the 18th Century Part Six The Romantic Period Chapter 19 English Romanticism 19.1 Background 19.2 Romanticism 19.3 Literature Chapter 20 Romantic Poetry 20.1 Representative Poets of the First Generation 20.2 Representative Poets of the Second Generation Chapter 21 Fiction in the Romantic Age 21.1 Sir Walter Scott 21.2 Jane Austen Chapter 22 Essays in the Romantic Age 22.1 Charles Lamb 22.2 William Hazlitt 22.3 James Henry Leigh Hunt 22.4 Thomas Penson De Quincey Part Seven The Period of Realism Chapter 23 Critical Realism 23.1 Background 23.2 Realism 23.3 Literary Currents Chapter 24 CritieaI Realist Novels 24.1 Charles Dickens 24.2 William Makepeaee Thackeray 24.3 George Eliot 24.4 The Bronte Sisters 24.5 Elizabeth Gaskell 24.6 George Meredith 24.7 Samuel Butler 24.8 Thomas Hardy Chapter 25 Victorian Poetry 25.1 Alfred,Lord Tennyson 25.2 The Brownings 25.3 Matthew Arnold Chapter 26 Victorian Essays 26.1 Thomas Carlyle 26.2 John Stuart Mill 26.3 John Ruskin Chapter 27 Literary Trends at the End of the 19th Century 27.1 Naturalistic Trend 27.2 New Romanticism 27.3 Aestheticism and Decadence Part Eight The Early Twentieth Century Chapter 28 Introduction 28.1 Background 28.2 Literature Chapter 29 Drama in the Early 20th Century Chapter 30 The Edwardians 30.1 Arnold Bennett 30.2 Rudyard Kipling 30.3 John Galsworthy 30.4 H.G.Wells 30.5 Joseph Conrad 30.6 E.M.Forster 30.7 Katherine Mansfield Chapter 31 The Georgians and the War Poets 31.1 W.H.Davies 31.2 Walter de la Mare 31.3 Philip Edward Thomas 31.4 John Drinkwater 31.5 Rupert Brooke 31.6 Wilfred Owen 31.7 David Jones 31.8 Robert yon Ranke Graves 31.9 Edmund Blunden Chapter 32 The 1920s Literature 32.1 Novel 32.2 Poetry Chapter 33 The 1930s Literature 33.1 Poetry 33.2 Fiction Part Nine The Postwar Period Chapter 34 Postwar Poetry 34.1 The Movement Poetry 34.2 Poetry since the 1960s and 1970s 34.3 Younger Poets of tile Later Period Chapter 35 Postwar Fiction 35.I"Angry Young Men"- 35.2 Other Writers on the Postwar Literary Scene Chapter 36 Postwar Drama 36.1 Samuel Barclay Beckett 36.2 Harold Pinter 36.3 Sir Tom Stoppard 36.4 John James Osborne 36.5 Sir Arnold Wesker Glossary Key to Exercises Appendix Ⅰ List of Nobel Laureates in Literature Appendix Ⅱ List of Poets Laureate of the UK Appendix Ⅲ List of Recipients of the Golden PEN Award in English Literature Appendix Ⅳ List of Winners of the Booker Prize for Fiction Appendix Ⅴ Periods in British History References
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