大学英国文学史：英文版

Chapter I English Literature of the
　　　　　　　　　　　Anglo-Saxon Period (Mao Minzhu)
　　1. The Historical Background
　　2. Beowulf
　　3. Religious Poetry: Caedmon and Cynewulf
　　4. Anglo-Saxon Prose: Bede and Alfred
　　　　　　　　　　Chapter II English Literature of the
　　　　　　　　　　　Late Middle Ages (Mao Minzhu)
Section I English Literature from the Mid-llth to the Mid-14th
　Century
　　1. The Background: political and Social
　　2. Folk Literature and Religious Literature from the Mid-llth to
　　　the Mid-14th Century
　　3. Early Alliterative and Metrical Romances in the 12th，13th，
　　　and Early 14th Centuries
Section II English Literature of the Second Half of the 14th Century
　　1. The Background: Political and Social
　　2. John Wycliffe， John Gower， and William Langland
　　3. Geoffrey Chaucer
Section III English Literature of the 15th Century
　　1. The Background: Political and Social
　　2. English and Scottish Popular Ballads：“Robin Hood Ballads”；
　　　“Border Ballads”and Others
　　3. Early English Drama: Folk Drama; the Mystery Plays; the
　　　Miracle Plays; the Morality Plays
　　4. English Prose of the 15th Century: Sir Thomas Malory and His
　　　Le Morte d'Arthur
　　　　　　　　　　Chapter III English Literature
　　　　　　　　　　of the Renaissance (Song Wenlin)
Section I The Historical Background: Economic，Political，and
　Cultural
　　1. The Renaissance in Europe
　　2. Stages and Trends of English Literature of the Renaissance
Section II English Literature of the Early 16th Century
　　1. “The Oxford Reformers” and Thomas More
　　2. Court Poetry: Skelton; Wyatt and Surrey
　　3. Morality Plays and Interludes of the 16th Century: David
　　　Lyndsay and John Heywood
Section III English Literature of the Second Half of the 16th Century
　　1. Court Poetry: Sidney and Spenser
　　2. Prose Fiction: Lyly， Nashe， and Deloney
　　3. Pre-Shakespearean Drama: English Drama under Classical
　　　Influence; “the University Wits” -Lyly，Peele，Lodge，Nashe，
　　　Greene，Kyd，and Marlowe; the Elizabethan Theatre
Section IV William Shakespeare
　　1. Shakespeare's Life and Literary Career
　　2. Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets
　　3. The First Period of Shakespeare's Dramatic Career (1588-90—
　　　1594-5): Early Experimental Comedies (Love's Labour's Lost，
　　　The Comedy of Errors， and The Two Gentlemen of Verona);
　　　Early History Plays (Henry VI，Parts I， II， & III and Richard
　　　III)
　　4. The Second Period of Shakespeare's Dramatic Career (1594-5—
　　　1601): Later History Plays (King John，Richard II， the two
　　　parts of Henry IV，and Henry V); a Fantasy (A Midsummer
　　　Night's Dream) and Two Farces (The Taming of the Shrew and
　　　The Merry Wives of Windsor); Two Early Tragedies (Romeo and
　　　Juliet and Julius Caesar); Four Great Comedies (The Merchant of
　　　Venice， Much Ado About Nothing，As You Like It， and
　　　Twelfth Night )
　　5. The Third Period of Shakespeare's Dramatic Career (1601—
　　　1609): Four Great Tragedies (Hamlet， Othello，King Lear，
　　　and Macbeth) and Other Tragedies (Antony and Cleopatra，
　　　Coriolanus， and Timon of Athens); Earlier Tragi-Comedies
　　　 (Troilus and Cressida， All's Well That Ends Well， and
　　　Measure for Measure)
　　6. The Last Period of Shakespeare's Dramatic Career (1609—
　　　1612-3): Pericles，Cymbeline，The Winter's Tale，The Tempest，
　　　and Henry VIII
　　7. General Comments on Shakespeare
Section V English Literature of the First Quarter of the 17th Century
　　1. The Drama of Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Ben Jonson，
　　　Chapman， Dekker， Thomas Heywood，Beaumont and Fletcher
　　2. The Decline of Drama in Early 17th-Century England up to the
　　　Closing of the Theatres in London in 1642: Marston， Tourneur，
　　　Webster，Ford， Middleton， Massinger，and Shirley
　　3. Francis Bacon
　　4. The King James Bible and Other Prose in the Early 17th Century
　　5. English Non-Dramatic Poetry in the First Thirty Years of the
　　　17th Century: the Spenserians，John Donne，and Ben Jonson
　　　　　　　　　　Chapter IV English Literature during
　　　　　　　　　　　the English Bourgeois Revolution
　　　　　　　　　　　and the Restoration (Song Wenlin)
Section I The Historical Background: Political and Ideological
　　1. The Political Background from the Eve of the English Bourgeois
　　　Revolution to the End of the Restoration (1625—1688)
　　2. The Ideological Background of English Literature in the 17th Century
Section II Minor Currents of English Literature from 1625 to 1660
　　1. Minor English Poets and Prose Writers of the Period
　　2. The Pamphlet Literature of the Levellers and the Diggers: John
　　　Lilburne and Gerrard Winstanley
Section III John Milton
　　1. Milton's Life and Literary Career
　　2. Milton's Early Works
　　3. The Middle Period of Milton's Literary Career: His Prose and
　　　His Sonnets
　　4. The Last Period of Milton's Literary Career: Paradise Lost，
　　　Paradise Regained，and Samson Agonistes
　　5. Summary
Section IV English Literature of the Restoration
　　1. John Bunyan
　　2. John Dryden
　　3. The English Drama of the Restoration
　　4. Minor English Poetry and Prose of the Restoration
　　　　　　　　　　Chapter V Eighteenth Century English
　　　　　　　　　　　　Literature (Song Wenlin)
Section I The Historical Background: Political and Ideological
　　1. Political Background from the Revolution of 1688 to the End of the 18th Century
　　2.The Enlightenment in England and Its Effect upon English Literature of the 18th Century
Section II English Literature of the Early 18th Century
　　1. Neo-Classicism in English Literature in the Early 18th
　　　Century: Alexander Pope
　　2. Periodical Literature in Early 18th-Century England: Addison
　　　and Steele
　　3. Daniel Defoe
　　4. Jonathan Swift
Section III English Prose Fiction in the Middle and Last Decades of
　the 18th Century
　　1. Richardson
　　2. Fielding
　　3. Smollett
　　4. Sentimentalism: Sterne and Goldsmith
　　5. The Gothic Romances and Other Works of Fiction near the End
　　　of the 18th Century
Section IV English Drama in the 18th Century
　　1. English Drama in the Early and Middle Decades of the 18th
　　　Century
　　2. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Section V Neo-Classicism and Pre-Romanticism in English Poetry and
　Prose in the Middle and Last Decades of the 18th Century
　　1. Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Gibbon; Burke
　　2. English Poetry in the Middle and Later Decades of the 18th
　　　Century: Traditions of Pre-Romanticism and Sentimentalism—
　　　Thomson，Collins，Young，Gray; MacPherson， Percy，
　　　Chatterton; Cowper; Crabbe
　　3. Robert Burns
　　4. William Blake
　　　　　　　　　　Chapter VI English Literature of the Early
　　　　　　　　　　　　　19th Century (Mao Minzhu)
Section I The Historical Background and Literary Trends in Early
　19th-Century England
　　1. The Historical Background: Economic， Political， and
　　　Ideological
　　2. The Literary Trends: the Romantic Movement in English
　　　Literature; the Poetry of Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，
　　　Shelley， and Keats; the Prose Fiction of Walter Scott and
　　　Jane Austen; and the Essayists of the Period
Section II Romantic Poetry in Early 19th-Century England
　　1. William Wordsworth
　　2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
　　3. George Gordon Byron
　　4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
　　5. John Keats
Section III English Prose in the Early 19th Century
　　1. Prose Fiction: Walter Scott and Jane Austen
　　2. William Cobbett
　　3. Essayists in the Early 19th Century: William Hazlitt，Charles
　　　Lamb，and Thomas De Quincey