PartⅠOldandMiddleEnglishPeriods(450-1485)
Chapter1OldEnglishPeriodandBeowulf
Ⅰ.OldEnglishPeriod
Ⅱ.Anglo-SaxonEpicPoemBeowulf
Chapter2MiddleEnglishPeriodandChaucer
Ⅰ.MiddleEnglishPeriod
Ⅱ.GeoffreyChaucer
PartⅡEnglishRenaissanceandShakespeare(1485-1616)
Chapter3TheEnglishRenaissanceLiterature
Ⅰ.IntroductionofthePeriod
Ⅱ.TenRenaissanceWriters
Chapter4WilliamShakespeare
Ⅰ.ShakespearesLifeandAchievements
Ⅱ.DiscussionsofShakespearesMajorWorks
PartⅢTheSeventeenthCentury(1616-1688)
Chapter5TheBourgeoisRevolutionandMilton
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledge
Ⅱ.JohnMilton
Chapter6TheMetaphysicalPoetsandtheRestorationDrama
Ⅰ.TheMetaphysicalPoets
Ⅱ.TheRestorationDrama
Chapter7DrydenandBunyan
Ⅰ.JohnDryden
Ⅱ.JohnBunyan
PartⅣTheEighteenthCentury(1688-1780)
Chapter8TheAgeofClassicism
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledgeoftheFirstHalfoftheEighteenthCentury
Ⅱ.DiscussionsoftheChiefRepresentatives
Chapter9TheRiseoftheNovel
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledgeAbouttheRiseoftheNovelinEngland
Ⅱ.DiscussionsoftheMajorNovelists
Chapter10ThePro-RomanticLiterature
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledgeAbouttheLiteratureattheTurfoftheCentury
Ⅱ.Pre-RomanticPoetry
Ⅲ.TheGothicNovel
PartⅤTheRomanticPeriod(1780-1830)
Chapter11WordsworthandColeridge
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledge
Ⅱ.TheRomanticSage,WilliamWordsworth
Ⅲ.SamuelTaylorColeridge,PoetandCritic
Chapter12Byron,ShelleyandKeats
Ⅰ.GeorgeGordonByronandtheByronicHero
Ⅱ.PercyByssheShelley,PoetandUtopianSocialist
Ⅲ.JohnKeats,thePoetofBeauty
Chapter13WalterScottandJaneAusten
Ⅰ.WalterScott,RomanticWriterofHistoricalThemes
Ⅱ.JaneAusten,NovelistofSocialManners
PartⅥTheVictorianLiterature(1830-1880)
Chapter14TheVictorianAge
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledge
Ⅱ.MajorLiteraryAchievements
Chapter15VictorianNovelists
Ⅰ.CharlesDickens
Ⅱ.WilliamMakepeaceThackeray
Ⅲ.CharlotteandEmilyBront
Ⅳ.GeorgeEliot
Chapter16VictorianPoets
Ⅰ.AlfredTennyson
Ⅱ.RobertBrowning
Ⅲ.DanteGabrielRossetti
IV.MatthewArnoldasaPoet
Chapter17VictorianProseWriters
Ⅰ.ThomasCarlyle
Ⅱ.ThomasMacaulay
Ⅲ.JohnStuartMill
Ⅳ.JohnRuskin
Ⅴ.Matthew,Amold
PartⅦFindesiecleandModernistLiterature(1880-1930)
Chapter18Findesiecle
Ⅰ.HistoricalBackground
Ⅱ.IntellectualBackground
Chapter19LaterVictoriantotheFirstWorldWar
Ⅰ.FindesiecleAestheticism
Ⅱ.LateVictorianPoetry
Ⅲ.NovelsofThisPeriod
Ⅳ.DramaofThisPeriod
Ⅴ.OtherWritersofThisPeriod
Chapter20ModernistLiterature
Ⅰ.BackgroundKnowledge
Ⅱ.ModernistNovelandNovelists
Ⅲ.ModernistPoetry
Chapter21Non-ModernistsBetweentheWars
Ⅰ.ReflectionsonWarandHistory
Ⅱ.WritersBetweentheWars
Ⅲ.TheRiseofAcademicEnglishStudies
PartⅧMid-TwentiethCentury(1930-1990)
Chapter22TheSecondWoddWar
Chapter23LiteratureoftheSecondWorldWar
Ⅰ.Surrealism
Ⅱ.WarPoets
Ⅲ.OtherWritersofThisPeriod
Chapter24PostwarLiterature
Ⅰ.NovelsofThisPeriod
Ⅱ.DramaofThisPeriod
Ⅲ.PoetryofThisPeriod
Chapter25TowardstheNewCentury
SelfTest
References
Chronology
GlossaryofLiteraryTerms
KeytotheQuizesandSelfTest
IndexofBritishWriters