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

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. e 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 positions ( 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 this course?
    1. historical and cultural background
    2. life story of the masters
    3. masterpieces introduction and features
   4. some important literary terms and their meanings.
Lecture one: Early and Medieval English Literature
early inhabitants in England (today) were Britons, a tribe of Celts凯尔特人, which was pr