英美文学考试复习点重点整理

1.现实主义、批判现实主义（代表人物、作品，以及每部作品讲了什么故事）P276—比如《匹克威克外传》主要讲什么？P281 《双城记》主要讲什么？P298 《大卫科波菲尔》主要讲什么？P292

2.其中自传体形式的作品有哪些？

3.傲慢与偏见的第一个名字：first impression(Pride and prejudice现)

4.三姐妹指的是？

5.19世纪有名小说名利场副标题：“A Novel Without a Hero”作者：William Makepeace Thackeray P303

6.18th浪漫主义作家、代表作P211 反对什么,反抗什么思想？

7.Pop代表作有哪些？P134 剪发记？

8.玄学诗派有哪些人物组成？Leading Feature? P116

9.乌托邦is written in form of ?P33

10.Universal Wicks大学才子是谁？P50

11.中世纪文学流行的是? 主题特征骑马精神P8？

12.最著名作家：乔叟P19

13.对于三次征服的概念（1）罗马征服P1 （2）英国人征服P2（3）诺曼征服P5

14.人民大宪章什么时候出现？时间：1837年

1.John Milton

He was born in London in 1608. He is a master of the blank verse, and a great stylist. And he is famous for his grand style.But his style is never exactly natural. He devoted almost twenty years of his best life to the fight for political, religious and personal liberty as a writer. His famous works are Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

2.Romance

Romance was the most prevailing kind of literature of the upper class in feudal England in the Medieval Ages. It is a long composition in verse or in prose which describes the life and chivalric adventures of a noble hero. The central character of romances is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapon. The theme of loyalty to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.

3.the Enlightenment

It is the philosophical and artistic movement growing out of the Renaissance and continuing until the nineteenth century. It was an optimistic belief that humanity could improve itself by applying logic and reasons to all things. Typically, these enlightenment writers would use satire to ridicule what they felt illogical errors in government, social

custom, and religious belief.

4.Neoclassicism

The neoclassical movement began in the mid-18th century and brought about a revival of interest in the old classical work. The neoclassicists held that forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be in judged in terms of its service to humanity.

ke poets

Also called Lake School, it is a name applied to a group of poets in the 19th century, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. They had lived in the Lake District in the northwest of England and shared a community of literary and social outlook in their works.

6.Metaphysical

About the beginning of the 17th century appeared a school of poets called “Metaphysical”, including Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Vaughan, and Crashaw. The work of the metaphysical poets are characterized their wit, imaginative picturing, compressions, often cryptic expression and by generally speaking, by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.