新编英国文学及选读复习资料.docVIP

英语专业课程：新编英国文学选读复习资料 Lecture1 Ⅱ. Recommended Novels for Reading (British) 18th-century Gulliver’s Travels: Jonathan Swift; social satire/fantasy/; Part I, II, and IV interesting; language difficulty ***. Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Defoe; an account of the process of the building of the British Empire in the 18th century; diary-like detailed description and narration; language difficulty **. 19th-century Great Expectations: Charles Dickens; about moral corruption and loss of innocence and honesty in growing up; the Cinderella pattern in structure; language Dif ***; a bit too long. Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte; a poor, plain governess struggling for self-dignity and personal happiness; language dif **. Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte; one of the best novels in the world; a presentation of the most primitive, natural, powerful, touching as well as the most destructive love human beings are capable of; language dif **. Silas Marner: George Eliot; a religious fable about religion of humanity; language dif **; small. Tess of D’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy; tragic fate of a “pure” young peasant woman at the time of capitalist invasion into the country in the 19th-century England; language dif ***. 20th-century Sons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence; Oedipus Complex; the study of man-woman relations; language dif ***. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf; about the spiritual journey of Mrs Dalloway; typical stream of consciousness fiction; language dif ***, not long The Fifth Child: Doris Lessing; about distortion or horror of human nature/ a human-born monster; Language dif **, small. Ⅲ. Contents Chapter One: Old English Literature Chapter Two: Middle English Literature Chapter Three: Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter Four: The Renaissance Chapter Five: The Revolution and Restoration Chapter Six:Enlightenment in England Chapter Seven: The Romantic Period Chapter Eight: The Victorian Age Chapter Nine: Twentieth Century Literature Ⅳ. Development of Literature Three stages of