商品簡介
In this book. the British literature is structured into seven literary periods. Chronologically, each period is introduced first by a brief comment on its social.political, cultural and ideological conditions. Then thebook summarizes the prevailing literary trends and schools of the time. emphasizing the lives and literary careers of the great and major writers. Thirdly, a study and analysis of every authors best works is highlighted,hoping to cultivate the literary qualities of the readers,
As a general manual of English literature, this book can be used as a textbook in British Literature forming part of the curricula of the Foreign Language Depart-ments of Colleges and Universities in China. It is also intended for students, teachers of English literature.postgraduates and all those who are interested in the English literature and culture,
目次
Chapter 1 Old and Medieval English Literature
1.1 The Anglo-Saxon Period
1.1.1 The Background
1.1.2 Old English Literature
1.2 The Norman Conquest
1.2.1 The Background
1.2.2 Medieval English Literature
1.3 Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 2 The Renaissance
2.1 The Renaissance in Europe
2.2 Humanism and Humanists
2.3 The Background of English Renaissance
2.4 The Renaissance English Writers
2.4.1 William Shakespeare
2.4.2 Francis Bacon
Chapter 3 The Period of English Bourgeois Revolution and Restoration
3.1 Historical Background
3.2 Literary Features and Writers
3.2.1 John Milton
3.2.2 John Bunyan
Chapter 4 The Enlightenment Period
4.1 Historical Background
4.2 Literary Features and Writers
4.2.1 Daniel Defoe
4.2.2 Jonathan Swift
4.2.3 Henry Fielding
4.2.4 William Blake
4.2.5 Robert Burns
Chapter 5 The Period of Romanticism
5.1 Historical Background
5.2 Literary Features and Writers
5.2.1 William Wordsworth
5.2.2 George Gordon Byron
5.2.3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
5.2.4 John Keats
5.2.5 Jane Austen
Chapter 6 The Victorian Period
6.1 Historical Background
6.2 Literary Trends and Writers
6.2.1 Charles Dickens
6.2.2 William Makepeace Thackeray
6.2.3 The Bronte Sisters
6.2.4 The Brownings
Chapter 7 Twentieth Century Literature
7.1 Historical Background
7.2 Cuhural Background
7.3 Literary Trends and Writers
7.3.1 Thomas Hardy
7.3.2 John Galsworthy
7.3.3 George Bernard Shaw
7.3.4 D.H.Lawrence
7.3.5 Virginia Woolf
7.3.6 James Joyee
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