Part one

EARLY AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATUE CHAPTERS

1.       The Making of England

The Britons

The Roman Conquest

The English Conquest

The Social Condition of the Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence

2.       “Beowulf”

Anglo_Saxon Poetry

The Story of “Beowulf

Analysis of Its Content

Features of “Beowulf”

3.       Feudal England

The Danish Invasion

The Norman Conquest

The Influence of the Norman Conquest on the English Language

Social Feature of the Feudal England

The Miseries of the Peasants

The Rising of 1381

The Content of the Romance

The Romance Cycles

The Class Nature of the Romance                                                                    

4.       Langland

“Piers and Plowan” and Its Author

A picture of Feudal England

Artistic Features

5.       The English Ballads

Oral Literature

The Ballads

The Robin Hood Ballads

6.       Chaucer

Life

Chaucer’s Literary Career

Troilus and Criseyde

The Canterbury Tales

Part Two

The English Renaissance

1.       Old England in Transition

The New Monarchy

The Reformation

The English Bible

The Enclosure Moverment

The Commercial Expansion

The War with Spain

The Renaissance and Humanism

The Beginning of the English Renaissance

2.       More

Life

Utopia

Utopia Book one

Utopia Book two

More’s Limitations

Engels on the Renaissance

3.The Flowering of English Listerature

The Flourishing of Literature

Sidney and Raleigh

Edmund Spenser

John Lyly

Francis Bacon

4. Drama

The Miracle Play

The Morality Play

The Interlude

The Classical Drama

The London Theatre

The Audience

The Playwrights

5.Marlowe

Life

Work

Doctor Faustus

Social Significance of Marlowe’s Plays

Marlowe’s Literary Achievement

6. Shakespeare

Life

A Chronological List of Shakespeare’s Plays

Periods of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Composition

The Great Comedies

The Mature Histories

The Great Tragedies

Hamlet

The Later Comedies

The Poems

Features of Shakespeare’s Drama

7.       Ben Jonson

Part Three

The Period of the english bourgeois revolution

Chapters

1.       the english revolution and the restoration

the weakening of the Tie between Monarchy and Bourgeoisie

The Clashes Between the King and Parliament

The Outburst of the English Revolution

The Split Within the Revolutionary Camp

The Bourgeois Dictatorship and the Restoration

The Religious Cloak of the English Revolution

Literature of the Revolution Period

2.       Milton

Life and Work

Paradise Lost

Samson Agonistes

Brief Summary

3.       Bunyan

Life

The Pilgrim’s Progress

4.       Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets

John Donne

George Herbert

Andrew Marvell

H. Vaughan

5.Some Prose-Writers

Robert Burton

Thomas Browne

Jeremy Taylor

Izaak Waltion

6.       Restoration Literature

Restoration Comedy

John Dryden

Part Four

The Eighteenth Century

1.       The Englightenment and Classicism in English Literature

The Enlightenment and 18^th Century Englandd

Classicism

2.       Addison and Steele

Steele and “The Tatler”

Addion and “The Spectator”

3.       Pope

Life

Work

Workmanship and Limitation

4.       Swift

Early Life

“ A Tale of a Tub” and “The Battle of the Books”

“Bickerstaff Almanac”

“ Gulliver’s Travels”

Pamphlets on Ireland

Illness and Death

Swift’s Style

5.       Defoe and the Rise of the English Novel

The Rise of the English Novel

Defoe’sNovels

“Robinson Crusoe”

6.       Richardson

“Pamela”

“Clarissa Harlowe”

“Sir Charles Grandison”

7.       Fielding

Life

Fielding as a Playwright

Joseph Andrews

“Jonathan Wild”

“Tom Jones”

Summary

8.       Smollett and Sterne

Smolett

Sterne

9.       18^th Century Drama and Sheridan

18^th Century English Drama

“The Beggar’s Opera

Sheridan

10 Johnson

Life

Johnson’s Dictionary

Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”

10.   Goldsmith

11.   Life

The Traveller

The Deserted Village

The Vicar of Wakefield

Comedies

The Citizen of the World

12.   Gibbon

Life

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

13.   Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism in Poetry

Sentimentalism in English Poetry

Thomas Gray

Pre-Romanticism

14.   Blake

Life

“Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”

“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”

Blake’s Position in English Literature

15.   Burns

Life

The Poetry of Burns

Features of Burn’s Poetry

Part Five

Romanticism in English

1.       The Romantic Period

2.       Wordsworth

Life

Lyrical Ballads

Poems Nature

Poems of Rural Life

3.       Coleridge and Southey

Coleridge

The Ancient Mariner

Southey

4. Byron

Life

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Don Juan

5.       Shelley

Life

“Queen Mab”

“The Revolt of Islam”

“Prometheus Unbound”

“The Masque of Anarchy” and Other Political Lyrics

Lyrics on Nature and Love

A Defence of Poetry

6. Keats

Life

Long Poems

Short Poems

6.       Lamb

Life

Literary Career

“Tales from Shakespeare”

“The Essays of Elia”

8.  Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt

Hazlitt

Leigh Hunt

9.       De Quincey

Life

Confessions of an English Opium – Eater

10.   Scott

Life

His Historical Novels

“Rob Roy”

“Ivanhoe”

Features of Scott’s Historical Novels

Part Six

English Critical realism

1.       The Rise of Critical Realism in England

Social Background

Chartist Movement and Chartist Literature

Ernest Jones

English Critical Realism

2. Dickens

Life and Career

List of Dickens’ Novels

The First Period

The Second Period

The Third Period

Dickers: Manand Writer

3.  Thackeray

Life and Work

Vanity Fair : A Novel Without a Hero”

4.       Some Women Novelists

Jane Austen

The Bronte Sisters

Mrs. Gaskell

George Eliot

Part Seven

Prose-Writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19^th Century

1.       Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Sartor Resartus

The French Revolution

Heroes and Hero-Worship

Past and Present

Carlyle as a Literary Critic

Engels on Carlyle

2.       Ruskin and Some Other Prose-Writers

Ruskin

Arnold

Macaulay

3.       Tennyson

Tennyson’s Life and Career

“In Memoriam”

“The Idylls of the King”

4.       The Brownings

Browning’s Early Life and Career

Elizabeth Bar-rett(Mrs, Browning)

Browning’s Main Achievement n Poetry

Browning’s Short Lyrics

5.       The Rossettis and Swinburne

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat

Algernon Charles Swinburne

6.       William Morris

Life and Career

A Dream of John Ball

New from Nowhere

7. Literary Trends at the End of the Century

Naturalism

George

Gissing

Neo-Romanticism

R.L. Stevenson

Aes-theticism

Walter Pater

Oscar Wilde

Part Eight

Twentieth Century English Litterature

1.       The New Century: Social and Historical Background

2.       English Novel of Early 20^th Century

The Realists

Kipling

Bennett and Conrad

Henry James

Katharine Mansfield

3. Hardy

Life and Work

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

4. Galsworthy

Life and Work

The Forsyte Saga

5.       The Irish Dramatic Movement

The Abbey Theatre and Lady Gregory

J.M. Synge

O’Casey

6.       Bernard Shaw

Life

Dramatic Work

Some Representative Plays

Major Barbara

Heartbreak House

7.       Sme Poets of Early 20^th Century

Rupert Brooke

John Masefield

A.E. Housman

8. Modernism in Poetry

Imagism

W.B. Yeats

T.S. Eliot

9. The Psychological Fiction

D.H. Lawrence

The “Stream of Consciousness”

School of Novel

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

10． Robert Tressell –A Working –Class Novelist

11. Marxist Literary Criticism

Ralph Fox and “The Novel and the People”

Christopher Caudwell

Illusion and Reality

Other Marxist Critics