LITERATURE英国文学
Part 1. Early and Medieval English Literature (5th c—1485)
Beowulf: An English Epic
Three major poets in 14th century England
Geoffrey Chaucer: the father of English poetry;
The Canterbury Tales William Langland (c.1332-c.1440) and his poem
The Vision of Piers Plowman (c.1362)
The Gawain-Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Part 2.The English Renaissance (late15th c— early 17th c)
Christopher Marlowe and Doctor Faustus(1604)(p74)
William Shakespeare, his four greatest tragedies—
Hamlet (1601) Othello (1604) King Lea r (1605)
Macbeth (1605) and some sonnets
Edmund Spenr and his famous poem
The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596)
Part 3 Seventeenth Century English Literature
John Donne (1572—1631)
John Milton (1608—1674)
John Bunyan (1628—1688)
Part 4. The Eighteenth Century English Literature
(1) Enlightenment
a. Neo-classicism
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
Jonathan Addison ( 1672-1719)
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) and The Life and
Adventurers of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and his
novel: Gulliver’s Travels (1726) p133
pro work: A Modest Proposal
线圈英文b: Sentimentalism (1740‘s-1750‘s )
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) and his novel Pamela or Virtues Rewarded (1740)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) : The History of Tom Jones (1749)
在职研修班c. Pre-romanticists (the last decade of the 18th century ) William Blake (1757-1827) :
Songs of Innocence (1789) ―The Lamb‖
Songs of Experience(1794) ―The Tiger‖Robert Burns (1759-1796:
A Red Red Ro
大比Auld Lang Syne
Part 5 19th century English Literature
A Romanticism in nineteenth century
a. Poetry in Romanticism
Lake Poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
pioneeringPercy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822)
John Keats （1795-1821）
b. Novels in Romanticism
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Jane Austen (1775-1817):
Sen and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
B. Realism in nineteenth century
Charles Dickens:
Pickwick Papers (1836-1837)瓶颈什么意思
David Copperfield (1850
Bleak Hou﹙1852﹚
Hard Times﹙1854﹚
sheep是什么意思Little Dorrit﹙1857﹚
A Tale of Two Cities﹙1859﹚
Great Expectation﹙1861﹚
B. Realism in nineteenth century
2. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
V anity Fair (1847-1848)
3.Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre (1847) p211-212
4 Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights (1847)p213-214
5 George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede (1859)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
B. Realism in nineteenth century
6. George Meridith (1828-1909)
The Egoist (1879)
7.Thomas Hardy 1840-1928
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
Jude the Obscure (1895)
8. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Erewhon ( 1872)
C. Poetry in nineteenth century
入门日语Alfred T ennyson (1809-1892)
Break, Break, Break (1842)
Ulyss (1842 )
In Memoriam (1850 )
cctvnews在线直播Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
D. Pro in nineteenth century
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)branchcode
E. Drama in nineteenth century
Oscar Wilde:
Comedies:
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893),
A Woman of No Importance (1894),
An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Tragedy: ― Salome‖ (1894).
Part 6. The Twentieth Century English Literature Modernism
1. Henry James (1843-1916)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
2. Joph Conrad (1857-1924)
Heart of Darkness (1902)
3. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Sons and Lovers (1913)
The Rainbow (1915)
Women in Love (1920)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928 )
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Chapter One The making of England:
1. the early inhabitants: Britons, a tribe of Celts
2. the repetition of invasions by foreign forces:
mr and mrs smiththe Roman Conquest:
Time: 55 B.C. –the beginning of 4th century
Invaders: Julius Caesar and his grandson Claudius
language: (main) Celtic & Latin
Fall: 410
A: the Germanic tribes:
the Angles, Saxons, and the Jutes
Kingdom: the Anglo-Saxons
Time: By 550
Ruler: King Arthur
language: Anglo-Saxon, or Old English
B: the Viking Danish invasion
Alfred the Great defeated the Danes in W esx
Religion:
pagan: believe in old mythology of Northern Europe
the days of the week in English are named after
the Northern gods, e.g. Odin, Tiu, Thor and so on. Christianity: 6th century
597: Pope Gregory the Great
Augustine
the Jutes in Kent
The influence of the Norman Conquest on the English language: the ruling class: Normans: French
