书名页 版权页 Contents Part One Old English Literature Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.The Development of the English Language Ⅲ.Literary Features Ⅳ.Representative Writers and Works Ⅴ.Beowulf and the Heroic Epic Tradition Part Two Middle English Literature (1066-1510) Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Romance and Sir Gawain Ⅳ.Popular Ballad Ⅴ.Medieval Drama Ⅵ.William Langland and Piers Plowman Ⅶ.Geoffrey Chaucer Ⅷ.Reading Part Three Literature of Renaissance and Reformation (1510-1620) Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Renaissance Poetry Ⅳ.Renaissance Prose Ⅴ.Renaissance Drama Ⅵ.William Shakespeare Ⅶ.Reading Part Four Literature of Revolution and Restoration (1620-90) Ⅰ.Historical Background and Literary Features Ⅱ.Seventeenth-Century Prose Ⅲ.Seventeenth-Century Drama Ⅳ.Seventeenth-Century Poetry Ⅴ.John Milton (1608-74) Ⅵ.Reading Part Five The Eighteenth Century Literature (1690-1780) Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Eighteenth-Century Poetry Ⅳ.Eighteenth-Century Prose Ⅴ.Eighteenth-Century Novel Ⅵ.Eighteenth-Century Drama Ⅶ.Reading Part Six The Literature of the Romantic Period (1780-1831) Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Romantic Poetry Ⅳ.Romantic Essayists Ⅴ.The Novel in the Romantic Period Ⅵ.Reading Part Seven Victorian Literature (1832-1900) Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Victorian Novel Ⅳ.Victorian Poetry Ⅴ.Victorian Critics and Historians Ⅵ.Victorian Drama Ⅶ.Reading Part Eight The Twentieth Century Literature (1900-45) Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Modern Poetry to 1945 Ⅳ.Modern Drama to 1945 Ⅴ.Modern Novels to 1945 Ⅵ.Reading Part Nine English Literature since 1945 Ⅰ.Historical Background Ⅱ.Literary Features Ⅲ.Drama since 1945 Ⅳ.Novel since 1945 Ⅴ.Poetry since 1945 Ⅵ.Reading Selected Bibliography ..更多