英国文学史第一讲course introduction and early literature.pptVIP

History of British Literature A Brief Outline of British Literature I. The early and Medieval literature 1. Beowulf  2. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales II. The English Renaissance (1485-1603) 1. Edmund Spencer’s The Shepherd’s Calendar and Faerie Queen 2. Francis Bacon’s Essays 3. William Shakespeare’s dramas III. The 17th century (1603-1660) 1. The English Revolution 2. John Milton’s Paradise Lost  3. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress IV. The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660-1798)  1. enlightenment 2. neo-classicism:  a. John Dryden’s dramas b. Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock c. Richard Steele and Joseph Addison’s essays d. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary 3. rise of the novel writing: a. Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe b. Janathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels V. The Age of Romanticism (1798-1830) 1. Pre-Romanticism : a. William Blake b. Robert Burns c. William Wordsworth 2. Romanticism  a. P. B. Shelley b. G. G. Byron c. J. Keats 3. Jane Austen’s novels VI. The Victorian Age (1832-1901)1. industrial revolution 2. realism  a. Charles Dickens b. Thomas Hardy c. Bronte sisters d. George Eliot3. aestheticism  a. Oscar Wilde VII. The 20th century (1901-)1. two world wars 2. modernism 3. psychological fiction and stream of consciousness a. D. H. Lawrence b. James Joyce c. Virginia Woolf 4. poetry definition of literature Literature refers to All written or spoken compositions ( discourses) designed to tell stories, dramatize situations and reveal thoughts and emotions, and also more importantly, to interest, entertain, stimulate, broaden and ennoble readers. What to learn in thi