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English Literature

 

Chapter One: Anglo-Saxon Period and Anglo-Norman Period

 

1.       “Beowulf”— the English national epic

2.       Geoffrey Chaucer and “The Canterbury Tales”

 

 

1.       Sir Thomas Malory

2.       Border Ballads

3.       Sir Thomas More and his “Utopia”

4.       Philip Sydney and his “Defense of Poesie”

5.       Edmund Spenser and his “Faerie Queen”

6.       The University Wits

7.       William Shakespeare

 

 

1.       Shakespeare’s contemporaries in drama: Ben Jonson and comedy of humors, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont etc.

2.       William Congreve and his comedy of manners

3.       Francis Bacon and his “Essays”

4.       John Dryden as a critic

5.       Three important schools of poetry (Robert Herrick, John Donne, John Milton ect.)

6.       John Bunyan and his “Pilgrim’s Progress”

 

 

1.       Poetry: Alexander Pope (“The Rape of the Lock”), Robert Burns, James Thomson, the Graveyard poets, and William Blake

2.       Periodical Literature: Richard Steele and Joseph Addison

3.       Samuel Johnson: the dictator of the literary club

4.       James Boswell: the Shakespeare of biographers

5.       Novels: picaresque, epistolary, panoramic, sentimental and gothic (Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne and Mrs. Ann Radcliff etc.)

6.       Drama: John Gay, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith

 

 

1. Romantic Period: three schools of poetry ----- the Lake School, the Cockney School, and the Satanic School (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron etc.); prose writers ----- Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen; William Godwin, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, William Cobbet, Thomas Paine

 

2. Victorian Period:

Novels of critical realism-----Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy

Novels of Naturalism-----George Gissing and George Moore

Novels of Aestheticism (art for art’s sake)-----Oscar Wilde

Novels of Neo-Romanticism----Robert Louis Stevenson

Novels of Apology for or Criticism of Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling (“Jim”) and Joseph Conrad (“Lord Jim”)

Poetry----- Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold (also as a critic), the Pre-Raphaelites (Dante Rossetti and Christina Rossetti)

Non-fiction prose------ Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Macaulay, John Ruskin, John Newman, John Stuart Mill and T. H. Huxley

 

 

1.       Three great realists sticking to the Victorian tradition at the beginning of this century: Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and John Galsworthy

 

2.       Literature of Modernism (1918-1945): Virginia Woolf, D. H. Laurence, James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw.

 

3.       Contemporary Literature (1945-): Gorge Orwell, William Golding, John Fowles, The Angry Young Men (Kingsley Amis, John Wain); Women writers such as Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark; Theatre of the Absurd and its representative, Samuel Becket