英国文学史课程考试大纲
英国文学史复习大纲
History and anthology of English literature:(altogether 7 topics, this semester 6 topics; 5th---1900, over 1400 years)✓The Old English and Middle English period (Chapter 1, 2)✓The Elizabethan age (Chapters 3, 4)✓The 17th century (Chapter 5)✓The classic 18th century (Chapters 6,7,8)✓The Romantic period (Chapters 9, 10)✓The Victorian age (Chapters 11-18)✓The 20th century (Chapters 19-26)✓The Old English and Middle English period (5th ---1066, 1066---1557)1 the Old English periodBeowulf：*pagan heroism异教徒的英雄主义and fatalism宿命论are mingled with Christian qualities. *The poets hope that the evil should be punished, and the righteous will be rewarded. *It’s a heroic Scandinavian epic legend told in the English language.literary terms: epic, alliteration2 the Middle English periodliterary term: romanceGeoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury TalesChaucer chose the metrical form which laid the foundation of the English tonico-syllabic verse.乔叟第一次在英国用韵脚韵律诗形式来创作诗歌，开创了英国文学以重音-音节为基础的格律诗先河。
英国文学史大纲
英国文学史第一章中古时期的文学（一）
游记》（识记、领会和应用）5、菲尔丁及《汤姆·琼斯》（识记）6、戏剧：哥德斯密斯和谢立丹（识记）教学建议：本章节要求学生结合启蒙运动的背景知识，了解新古典主义文学的主张和特点，体会启蒙运动对同时代英国文学的影响，理解并掌握班扬的作品《天路历程》的艺术特点，理解并掌握斯威夫
的特点，掌握《德伯家的苔丝》的思想内容，苔丝的形象，苔丝悲剧的根源，作品中的悲剧主义与宿命色彩。
建议教学时安排学生观看电影《苔丝》。
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《英国文学史及选读》第二册复习提纲Part VII. THE ROMANTIC PERIODIntroduction●Historical BackgroundThe political & social factors that gave rise to the Romantic Movement were the three revolutions –the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.●Intellectual backgroundThe shift in literature from emphasis on reason to instinct & emotion was intellectually prepared for by a number of thinkers in the later half of the 18th century. Representative thinkers are Rousseau, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine.●Term – Romanticism（1）Romanticism is a literary trend fighting against the idea of Enlightenment. It prevailed in England during the period of 1798—1832. It begins with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ends with Sir Walter Scott’s death.（2）Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit.（3）In essence, it designates a literary & philosophical theory, which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life & all experience.（4）It also places the individual at the center of art, making literature most valuable as an expression of his or her unique feelings & particular attitudes, & valuing its a ccuracy in portraying the individual’s experiences.●Term – Lake Poets or The LakersIn English literature it refers to such romantic poets as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey who lived in the Lake District.●Term—Gothic NovelIt is a type of romance very popular in the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century. It emphasizes things which are grotesque, violent, mysterious, supernatural, desolate and horrifying. It was applied by Horace Walpole to his novel The Castle of Otranto. It has exerted a great influence over the writers of the Romantic period with its description of the dark, irrational side of human nature. Gothic novel has exerted a great influence over the writers of the Romantic period. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romance.●Romantic Authors in England（1）The glory of the age is in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Southy. （2）Of its prose works, those of Scott alone have attained very wide reading（3）The essays of Charles Lamb（4）The novels of Jane Austen and historical novels of Walter ScottWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850)“. . . poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility…” (“Preface”) 所有的好诗都是炽烈情感的自然涌流，而这种情感又是经过在宁静中追忆的.——quotation from William Wordsworth.●Major works from William WordsworthLyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集（I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud我好似一朵孤独的流云；Composed upon Westminster Bridge写于威斯敏斯特桥上）Lucy Poems露西组诗(She Dwett Among the Untrodden Ways她走在人迹罕至的路边；To the Cuckoo杜鹃颂;The Solitary Reape r孤寂的割麦女);The Excursio n远足The Prelude序曲●Analysis of William Wordsworth’s works（1）She Dwett Among the Untrodden Ways is one of his famous Lucy Poems, in which the lover tells that she lived unknown and died unknown.（2）Composed upon Westminster Bridge describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London. （3）The Solitary Reaper describes vividly and sympathetically a young peasant girl working in the fields and singing as she works and shows that the gir l’s singing deeply moved the traveler and kept lingering in his heart.（4）I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to the core of Wordsworth’s poetic belief.●FormThis poem contains four six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrametre(四步抑扬格), with a rhyme scheme of ababcc in each stanza.●ThemeThe theme of this poem is the serene beauty of nature through vivid description of daffodils and the poet’s respect for nature.●ContentFirst Stanza–It shows a harmonious picture. The image of “cloud” gives us the impression of the poet’s pride and loftiness. But on seeing numerous daffodils, the poet descends from above to below.Second Stanza– In this stanza, the poet draws an analogy between stars and daffodils to emphasize the great number. “Star” in this stanza echoes with “cloud” in the previous stanza.Third Stanza–The poet draws an analogy between waves of water and waves of daffodils. The description of the scenery ends in the second line. Following that, the poet shifts his emphasis from scenery to emotion. Fourth Stanza –The glee of daffodils turns into happiness of the poet. As a result, the beauty of nature becomes the beauty of mind. The last two lines explain why daffodils had brought great wealth to me, because they had brought fresh inspiration, greater creativity and new capacity for imagination. New life has been brought to him by the memory.●Brief comment on William Wordsworth（1）He is the leading figure of English Romantic poetry, and he is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”. （2）His Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, marked the beginning of Romanticism in English poetry.（3）He defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”（4）He was one of the “Lake Poets”.George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)Introduction●George Gordon Byron was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry. He created the concept of the “Byronic hero”—a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. Byron’s influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense. He was the most renowned English language poet of his day.●Term – Byronic HeroThis is a concept created by George Gordon Byron. It refers to a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, this figure would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupted society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.●Term – LyricLyric is a short poem wherein the poet expresses an emotion or illustrates some life principle. Lyric often concerns love. “My love is like a red, red rose” is Robert Burn’s well-known lyric.●Major worksHours of Idliness1807English Bords and Scottish Reviewers1809Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage1812The Giaour 1813The Corsair1814Lara1814Manfred1817Cain 1821Don Juan (1819-1824)●Famous selected poems in our textbook:When We Two Parted;She Walks in Beauty;The Isles of Greece taken from Don Juan●Analysis of Byron’s works（1）Don Juan, Byron’s masterpiece, is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age. It is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.（2）When We Two Parted is a lyric poem of usual love between man and woman. The poem is alternately rhymed to show the poet’s mental pain of love mingled with hate. The metrical movement of this poem is basically a combination of iambic and anapaestic (抑抑扬格) feet, with a rhyme scheme ababcdcd.（3）She Walks in Beauty is one of B’s early love lyrics.●Background knowledge – On June 11, 1814, B attended a party where he for the first time net hisyoung cousin, Lady Wilmot Horton, who was dressed in a black mourning gown. B was so struck by her beauty that, on returning home, he wrote this poem in a single night.●Theme – This lyric poem is a compliment to a lady and to celebrate the beauty of the woman.●Form – The poem contains three stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme ababab.（4）The Isles of Greece is taken from Don Juan, Canto III, which is sung by a Greek singer at the wedding of Don Juan and Haidee. In the early 19th century, Greece was under the rule of Turk. Bycontrasting the freedom of ancient Greece and the present enslavement, the poet appealed to people to struggle for liberty.●Comments on Byron（1）Byron is the most excellent representative of English Romanticism. He was one of the most influential poets of his time.（2）He created the concept of the “Byronic hero”—a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. （3）His poems are favorites of the British workers & the laboring people of other countries. He opposed oppression & slavery, & had an ardent love for liberty. He praised the people’s revolutionary struggles in his works.（4）He was the most renowned English language poet of his day.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1827)Introduction●Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era.●Term – OdeIt is a dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem of some length, praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally. Originally they were songs performed to the accompaniment of a music instrument. John Keats wrote great odes. His Ode on a Grecian Urn is a case in point.●Term -- Terza RimaIt is an Italian verse that consists of a series of three-line stanzas in which the middle line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the following stanza with the rhyming scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.. It appeared first in Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Besides, Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind is a case in point.●Major WorksThe Necessity of Atheism《无神论的必要性》Adonais《阿多尼斯》Queen Mab 1813《麦布女王》The Revolt of Islam 1818《伊斯兰的反叛》Prometheus Unbound 1820《解放了的普罗米修斯》A Defence of Poetry《诗辩》●Famous selected poems in our textbook:A Song: Men of EnglandOde to the West WindOzymandiasTo a SkylarkThe Cloud●Analysis of Shelley’s works（1） A Song: Men of England is one of Shelley’s greatest political lyrics. It is not only a war cry callingupon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet warns the working people that if they should give up their struggle, they would be digging graves for themselves with their own hands.（2）Ode to the West Wind is one of the most popular and best-known of Shelley's lyrics. Main Idea–Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind & expressed his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. “West Wind”— in the poem symbolizes both destroyer of the old and preserver of the new. It destroys leaves/things/thoughts/ideas that are dead; it preserves new life or seeds that represent new life or new birth. Form—This ode consists of five stanzas, each a stanza formed of four units of terza rima (三行诗节) completed by a couplet. Famous lines—”Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/ Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!” and “I fall upon the thorns of life!” and “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”（3）Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest poetic drama. The drama celebrates man’s victory over tyranny and oppression.（4）Queen Mab is a revolutionary poem condemning tyranny and exploitation and the unjust war waged by the rich to plunder wealth.John Keats (1795-1821)●Romantic poets comparedWordsworth: beauty in simplicityColeridge: beauty in the extraordinary and supernaturalByron: beauty in power and satireShelley: exquisite beautyKeats: sensuous beauty(给人以美的享受的).On John Keats’ tomb are carved, according to his own request, the words: “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” (此地长眠者，声名水上书)●John Keats is one of the major English Romantists in the 19th century. He wrote best odes in Englishliterature. He sought to express beauty in all of his poems. His leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. His poetry is distinguished by sensuousness and the perfection of the form. His ability to appeal to the senses through language is virtually unrivaled.●Major Works“““““●Analysis of Keats’ works（1）Ode on an Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion. Form—Each stanza is 10 lines long, metered in a relatively precise iambic pentameter,and divided into a two part rhyme scheme: the first 7 lines of each stanza follow an ABABCDE rhyme and the last 3 lines of which are variable. The famous line from this ode is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” and “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter”.（2）On First Looking into Chapman’s Hom er is a Petrarchan or Italian sonnet with a rhyme scheme of abba abba cdc dcd. The octet (eight lines) describes Keats's reading experience before reading Chapman's translation and the sestet (six lines) contrasts his experience of reading it.（3）Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.Walter Scott (1771—1832)●Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist and poet, is the father of the historical novel. His historical novel ishis chief contribution to English literature. His historical novels concern the history of Scotland, English history and the history of European countries. His language is difficult with Scottish dialect.●Major Works of Walter ScottPoems1802, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,《苏格兰边区歌谣集》1805, The Lay of the Last Minstrel,《最末一个行吟诗人》1808, Marmion《玛密恩》1810, The Lady of the Lake《湖上夫人》NovelsOf Scottish historyWaverley 《威弗利》1814Guy Mannering 《盖曼纳合》1815Old Morality 《清教徒》1816Rob Roy 1817 《罗布·罗伊》, the best of the groupThe Heart of Midlothian 1818《弥德洛西恩的心》Of the English historyIvanhoe《艾凡赫》1820, is Scott’s masterpiece. It is a novel of English subject covering the days after the Norman Conquest.Kenilworth, 《肯纳尔沃思堡》1821The Fortunes of Nigel, 《尼格尔的家产》1822Woodstock 《皇家猎宫》Peveril of the Peak 《贝弗利尔·皮克》1823Of the European countriesQuentin Durward 《昆丁·达沃德》1823Talisman 《惊军英雄记》1825Count Robert of Paris《巴黎的罗伯特伯爵》1832St. Ronan’s Wells《圣·罗南之泉》, the only one, dealing with his contemporary life●Features of Scott’s Novels（1）Scott has an outstanding gift of vivifying the past.（2）In his novels, historical events are closely interwoven with the fates of individuals.（3）In his historical novels, he concerns both the lives and deeds of the higher class and that of the ordinary people.（4）He is a romantic while a Tory, a conservative in politics.Jane Austen (1775-1817)Introduction●She was a woman novelist of the 18th century, thought she lived mainly in the 19th century for herworks show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clear-sighted judgment over the Romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality.●Six NovelsEmma《爱玛》Persuasion《劝导》Mansfield Park《曼斯菲尔德庄园》Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》●Analysis of Pride and PrejudicePride & Prejudice which was originally drafted as First Impressions, mainly tells of the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet. In this novel, Darcy stands for Pride and Elizabeth represents Prejudice. In the end false pride is humbled and prejudice dissolved.Main Characters—Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet with their daughters of Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia, besides there are Charles Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy.Major Themes— Pride and prejudiceLove and marriageFamilyFamous quotations from Chapter 1①“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”. ——Opening sentence from Pride and PrejudiceExplanations of the opening sentence—P & P begins with one of her most famous uses of irony. The first sentence takes a local attitude, to be exemplified in Mrs. Bennet, about the need of well-to-do men to marry, and transforms it, tongue-in-cheek, into a self-evident fact “universally acknowledged.”②“What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”“How so? how can it affect them?”“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”——Conversations between Mr. and Mrs BennetExplanations of this conversation—The conversation tells us that Mrs. Bennet is eager to marry one of his daughters to the mentioned young man, but her husband does not care much.●Jane Austen’s contribution to English literature（1）Jane Austen is one of the most important Romantic novelists in English literature. She creates six influential novels such as Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice.（2）Her main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships. She makes trivial daily life as important as the concerns about human belief and career and salient social events. This is what make her important in English literature.(3%)（3）Jane Austen has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior and her accurate portrayal of human individuals. （4）She describes the world from a woman’s point of view, and depicts a group of authentic and common women.Charles Lamb (1775-1834)●Romantic prose writers（1）The early 19th century is remarkable for the development of a new and valuable type of critical prose writing.（2）The leaders in this new and important development are William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, De Quincy and Charles Lamb.（3）These prose writers were much influenced by the French Revolution in politics and by the Romantic Movement in literature.（4）They freely expressed their own personality in their writings.（5）The best representative of these writers is Charles Lamb.●Major literary worksFirst PeriodJohn Woodvil《约翰·伍德维尔》1802Mr. H 《H君》1806Second PeriodTales from Shakespeare 《莎士比亚故事集》1807 cooperated with his sisterSpecimens of English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare《莎士比亚同时代英国戏剧诗人之范作》1808Third Perid—series of essaysEssays of Elia 《伊利亚随笔集》1823Last Essays of Elia《后随笔集》1833Part VIII. The Victorian Age●Age DivisionThe Victorian Age can be roughly divided into 3 periods:The Early Period (1832-1848): a time of social unrest.The Middle Period (1848-1870): a period of economic prosperity & religious controversy.The Last Period (1870-1901): a period of decay of Victorian values.●Features of Victorian novels（1）The plot is unfolded against a social background, which is broader than what it had been in previous novels.（2）The cause-effect sequence is much more striking than in previous novels.（3）Most of the Victorian novels first published in serial form, that is, by installment, before they were fully published in a single book.（4）The Victorian novels were tainted by the spirit of Puritanism of the Victorian age.（5）The Victorian novels were characterized by their moral purpose. Many writers wrote novels with a purpose to edify readers & to bring about reforms.●Victorian PoetsAlthough the novel was the predominating genre of literature in the Victorian age, it does not follow that there were no prominent poets after the deaths of major Romantic poets.In fact, poets like Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), Robert Browning (1812-1889), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), & Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)were important in the sense not only that they wrote highly lyrical poems as the Romaticists did, but also that they in their poetry reflected the spiritual search which was characteristic of the age.●Terms—Critical RealismCritical Realism is a term applied to the realistic fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It means the tendency of writers and intellectuals in the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the method of realistic fiction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues. Charles Dickens is the most important critical realist who applies this method.●Terms—Dramatic MonologueDramatic Monologue, in literature, refers to the occurrence of a single speaker saying something to a silent audience. Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess is a typical example in which the duke, speaking to a non-responding audience, reveals not only the reasons for his disapproval of the behavior of his former duchess, but some tyrannical and merciless aspects of his own personality as well.Charles Dickens (1812-1870)“He was a sympathizer to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.”——The Epitaph of Charles Dickens●Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age. His works areintended to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness of the 19th century England, particularly London. All his works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.●Major worksThe First Period1836 Sketches by Boz 《博兹随笔》1837 The Pickwick Papers 《匹克威克外传》1837-1838 Oliver Twist 《雾都孤儿》criticizes the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.1838-1839 Nicholas Nickleby 《尼古拉斯.尼科尔贝》1840 The Old Curiosity Shop 《老古玩店》The Second Period1842 American Notes 《美国札记》1843 Martin Chuzzlewit 《马丁.瞿述传》1843 A Christmas Carol 《圣诞欢歌》（圣诞故事集）1844 The Chimes 《钟声》（圣诞故事集）1846 Dombey and Son 《董贝父子》1849 David Copperfield 《大卫.科波菲尔》is about the debtor’s prison.The Third Period1852 Bleak House 《荒凉山庄》attacks the legal system and practices that aim at devouring every penny of the clients.1853 Hard Times 《艰难时世》lashes the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.1854 Little Dorrit 《小杜丽》1859 A Tale of Two Cities 《双城记》1860 Great Expectations 《远大前程》expose the overwhelming social environment which brings moral degeneration and destruction to people.1864 Our Mutual Friend 《我们共同的朋友》●The characteristics of Charles Dickens’ works（1）As a novelist, Charles Dickens was first remembered for his sketches of characters and exaggeration. As a master of characterization, Dickens was skillful in drawing vivid caricatural sketches by exaggerating some peculiarities.（2）Dickens is well known as a humorist as well as a satirist. He sometimes employs humor to enlivena scene or lighten a character by making it (him or her) eccentric or laughable.（3）Dickens loved complicated and fascinating plot in his novels. He is also skillful at creating suspense and mystery to make the story fascinating. A plot formula in his novel is the happy ending. （4）As the greatest representative of English critical realism, Dickens made his novel the instrument of morality and justice. Each of his novels reveals a specific social problem.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)●William Makepeace Thackeray is one of the most important writers of the English critical realism.Through his masterpiece Vanity Fair, Thackeray sharply exposes the vices of his society: hypocrisy, money-worship, and moral degradation.●Major worksThe Book of Snobs1846-47《势利人脸谱》《势利者集》Vanity Fair1847-48《名利场》The History of Pendennis1849-50《彭登尼斯》The Newcomes 1853-55《纽克姆一家》The History of Henny Esmond 《亨利•埃斯蒙德》1852The Virginians《弗吉尼亚人》1859●The Analysis of V anity FairGeneral Introduction—Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece. It was published in 1847-48 in monthly installments.The title— was taken from Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress”.The sub-title —of the book, “A Novel Without a Hero”, suggests the fact that writer ' s intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.Main idea—In this novel Thackeray describes the life of the ruling classes of England in the early decades of the 19th century, and attacks the social relationship of the bourgeois world by satirizing the individuals in the different strata of the upper society. It is a world where money grubbing is the main motive for all members of the ruling classes.The heroin—is Rebecca Sharp who is a perfect embodiment of the spirit of Vanity Fair as her only aspiration in life is to gain wealth and position by any means fair or foul. Sharp is charming and pretty, but she is ambitious. Driven by her ambition, she has become a merciless social climber. As her name suggests, Becky Sharp is determined to carve out a place for herself in Vanity Fair. She succeeds in establishing herself in Vanity Fair at the cost of lives of two men and the alienation of all her friends and family. But she enjoys the battle.●The characteristics of Thackeray’s novels（1）Thackeray is one of the greatest critical realists of the 19th-century Europe .（2）Thackeray is a satirist. He is noted for realistic depiction, the ironic and sarcastic tone and constant comment and criticism.（3）Thackeray is a moralist. His aim is to produce a moral impression in all his novels.（4）He is good at describing the life of the upper class, which he is familiar with.●The theme of Vanity Fair.（1）Vanity Fair describes the life of the upper society of England in the early 19th century, and exposes the craftiness, snobbishness and vanity of the ruling classes.（2）Life is portrayed in this novel as a vanity fair where everything can be sold and bought, and money-grubbing was the main motive for the members of the upper classes.（3）Becky Sharp is a perfect example of this money-grubbing instinct. She is a subtle embodiment of duplicity, ambition and selfishness.（4）When we discuss the theme of the novel, disillusionment is the key word. At the end of the novel, nobody is happy.George Eliot (1819-1880) — Mary Ann Evans“It was really George Eliot who started it all. It was she started putting action inside.”-- D.H. Lawrence’ evaluation on George Eliot●Eliot’s Major WorksNovelsRemarkable ones：Adam Bede, 1859 《亚当.比德》---rural lifeThe Mill on the Floss, 1860《弗洛斯河上的磨房》--moral problemsSilas Marner, 1861《织工马南》 - psychological studies of charactersOthers:Romola, 1863 《罗慕拉》 --problems of religion &moralityFelix Holt, the Radical, 1866《费力可斯.霍尔特》Middlemarch, 1871–72《米德尔马契》Daniel Deronda, 1876《丹尼尔.德龙达》●The characteristics of Eliot’s literary worksShe wrote about rural life influenced by the industrial revolution.She shows a particular concern for the destiny of women.She leads in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.She shows the interest in the interior life of human beings, moral problems and strains.Religion is concerned in her novels.Bronte Sisters●The story of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), Anne (1820-1849),all literary, all talented and all dying young, is one of the saddest pages in the history of English literature.They were the daughters of a poor clergyman in the little village of Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England.Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)●She is one of the three Bronte sisters. Her works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousnesstowards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life. Al her heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.●Major works“The Professor” (1846, 1857) 《教师》“Jane Eyre” (1847) 《简·爱》“Shirley” (1849)《雪莉》“Villette”(1853) 《维莱特》●The Analysis of Jane Eyre（1）Jane Eyre is Charlotte’s masterpiece, and also one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.（2）It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood School.（3）It traces the passionate love between Jane Eyre and Rochester.（4）The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine, Jane Eyre.（5）Jane Eyre is an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain,。
辽宁师范大学外语学院英语语言文学专业英国文学考试大纲
外语学院英语语言文学专业英国文学考试大纲I.课程性质和学习目的英国、美国文学是英语专业本科阶段的必修课程，为了培养和检测英国、美国文学的基本理论知识和理解，鉴赏英国、美国文学原著的能力为目的。
本科程旨在使本科生对英国文学形成与发展的全貌有一个大概的了解；并通过读具有代表性的英国、美国文学作品，理解作品的内容，学会分析作品的艺术特色并努力掌握正确评价文学作品的标准和方法。
由于本课程以作家作品为重点，因此学生要仔细阅读原作。
通过阅读，努力提高语言水平，增强对英国文学原著的理解，特别是对作品中表现的社会甚或和任务思想感情的理解，提高他们阅读文学作品的能力和鉴赏水平。
III.课程内容语考核目标本课程主要包括英国、美国文学发展史及代表作家的简要介绍和作品选读。
文学是部分从英国历史，语言，文化发展的角度，简要介绍英国、美国文学各个历史断代的主要历史背景，文学文化思潮，文学流派，社会政治，经济，文化等对文学发展的影响，主要作家的文学生涯，创作思想，艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构，任务刻画，语言风格，思想意义等；选读部分主要节选了英国、美国文学史上各个时期重要作家的代表作品，包括诗歌，戏剧，小说，散文等。
识记的内容：识记的知识和理论都与考点直接相关，应考这应熟知其概念和有关知识，理解其原理，并能在语言环境中予以辨认。
领会的内容：必须做到掌握有关知识和理论。
应用的内容：必须做到在掌握有关知识理论的基础上实质转换为能力。
1英国文学文艺复兴时期一学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，了解文艺复兴运动和人文主义思潮产生的历史，文化背景，人认识该时期文学创作的基本特征和基本主张，及其对同时代及后世英国文学及至文化的影响；了解该时期重要作家的文学生涯，创作思想，艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构，刻画，语言风格，思想意义等；同时结合注释，读通所选作品，了解其思想内容和写作特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。
二课程内容2文艺复兴运动概述1．意大利文艺复2．兴运动的兴起3．人文主义思潮4．文艺复5．兴时期的文学渊源6．英国文艺复7．兴8．宗教改革运动及其影响3英国文艺复兴时期的文学9．伊丽莎白时期的历史文化背景10．意大利文学对英国文学的影响11．伊丽莎白时代的戏剧12．诗歌4文艺复兴时期的主要作家A. 埃德蒙斯宾塞1．生平13．创作生涯1）抒情诗2）传奇史诗《仙后》的构思，3）情节，4）内容，5）主题3．选读B. 乔叟1．生平2．创作生涯1）地位2）《坎特伯雷故事集》的构思，3）情节，4）内容，5）主题3．选读C. 威廉莎士比亚1．生平2．戏剧创作生涯1）早期的浪漫喜剧，2）历史剧3）中期的悲剧4）晚期的悲喜剧，5）传奇剧14．代表作品及其故事梗概，15．情节结构，16．人物塑造，17．语言风格，18．思想意义1）喜剧《威尼斯商人》2）悲剧《哈姆雷特》3）传奇剧《暴风雨》19．莎士比亚的诗歌1）叙事诗2）十四行诗20．莎士比亚的喜剧的思想意义1）对社会现实的批判2）对人文主义的歌颂21．莎士比亚的艺术成就1）人物塑造2）情节结构3）语言风格22．选读1）十四行诗（18）的主题，2）意向3）喜剧《威尼斯商人》旋段的主题，4）人物性格，5）语言特点6）悲剧《哈姆雷特》选段的主要内容B. 培根1生平2培根的作品3培根《论说文》的特点4杰出贡献1）对现代科学做出的贡献2）培根《论说文》的结构，3）内容，4）语言特点C. 米尔顿5米尔顿的生平6米尔顿的文学创作1）早期诗歌2）中期散文3）晚期史诗7史诗《失乐园》1）故事梗概2）主题结构3）人物塑造4）语言风格5）作品的意义8史诗《复乐园》的主要内容9诗剧《力士叁孙》的主要内容10米尔顿的散文11选读史诗《失乐园》选段的主要内容，人物性格，语言特点等三考核知识点1）文艺复2）兴时期该速记人文主义思潮对文学创作的影响3）文艺复4）兴时期主要作家的文学创作思想及其代表作品的主题结构，5）人物塑造，6）语言风格，7）艺术手法，8）社会意义等。
英国文学史复习大纲Time of English literature
Time of English literature1.The old English古英语(or Anglo-saxon盎格鲁–撒克逊) period(449-1066)2.The middle English period（1066-1485）杰弗里·乔叟Geoffrey Chaucer-坎特伯雷故事集-the father of English literature3.The English Renaissance文艺复兴时期文学(1485-1 660)-the rebirth of learning/letters威廉·莎士比亚William Shakespeare四大悲剧The four great tragedies哈姆雷特Hamlet/奥赛罗Othello/李尔王king lear麦克白Macbeth四大喜剧The four comedies威尼斯商人The Merchant of venice/仲夏夜之梦A Mi dsummer Night's Dream/皆大欢喜As You Like It/第十二夜Twelfth nightThe beginning of the English Renaissance英国文艺复兴的开始(1485-1558)The Elizabethan Age伊丽莎白时代(二世）(1558-1 603)The 17th Century(1603-1660)Two representatives of t he puritan清教徒writers:Milton&Bunyan约翰·弥尔顿John Milton-失乐园Paradise Lost (Epic 长篇叙事诗、史诗）-justify the ways of god to man 英雄双韵体Heroic Couplet(1五音步抑扬格iambic pe ntameter 2押尾韵对偶句3韵尾为AA BB CC DD...不重复4风格简洁)约翰·班扬John Bunyan-天路历程The Pilgrim's Progr essWho use pen to defend the English commonwealth联邦——约翰·邓恩John Donne-跳蚤the flea-（the great met aphysical poet）玄学诗歌安德鲁·马维尔Andrew Marvell-致羞涩的情人To hi s coy Mistress罗伯特·赫里克Robert Herrick采摘含苞的玫瑰要起早-cavalier poets骑士诗歌约翰·德莱顿John Dryden-论戏剧诗An essay of Dr amatic poesy-try to build unvirsal rules for the constr uction of drama4.The Restoration复辟and the eighteenth century(o r the neoclassical period新古典主义时期)(1660-1798) 丹尼尔·笛福Daniel Defoe-鲁滨逊漂流记Robinson Crusoe现实主义乔纳森·斯威夫特Jonathan Swift-格列佛游记gulliver's travelsThe Augustan Age奥古斯都的时代(1770 -1745)The Neoclassical Decline新古典主义的衰落(1745-1798)5.The Age of Romanticism浪漫主义时期(1 798-1832)Romanticism is a movement of the eighteen th and nineteenth century, which markedthe reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religio n, and politics from the neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy 正统观念of the preceding peri od.Features of Romanticismngs2) The Creation of a world of Imagination3) The Return to Nature for Material4) Sympathy with the Humble and Glorification of the Commonplace5) Emphasis Upon the Expression of Individua l Genius6) The Return to Milton and Elizabethans for Lit erary Models7) The Interest in Old Stories and Medieval Rom ances8) A Sense of Melancholy and Loneliness9) The Rebellious Spirit威廉·布莱克William Blake--he is care about the slavery about their inner spirtual liberty than their political and social liberty.纯真之歌song of innocence/经验之歌song of experience/擦烟囱的少年the chimney sweep er /病玫瑰The Sick Rose/天堂和地狱的婚姻t he marriage of heaven dand hellTwo Schools of Romanticistsa.The Passive Romanticists消极浪漫主义These were Romantic writers who reflected t he thinking of classes ruined by the bourgeoi sie, and by way of protest against capitalist development turned to the feudal past, i.e. th e merry old England as their ideal, or frighte ned by the coming of industrialism. ( Cavali er Poets). They were represented bv William Words Worth. Coleridge, and Southey.b.The Active Romanticists积极浪漫主义They were people who expressed the aspirati ons of the classes created by capitalism and held out an ideal, though a vague one, oi a future society free from oppression and exploitation. These were vounaer and sometimes called act ive romanticistsrepresented bv Byron. Shelley, and Keats威廉·华兹华斯William Wordsworth-诗乃自发溢出的强烈情感Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powe rful feelings.抒情歌谣集Lyrical Ballads咏水仙I Wandered Lonely as a CloudI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed --- and gazed --- but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.珀西·比希·雪莱Percy Bysshe Shelley-西风颂Ode to the West Wind致云雀To a Skylark奥兹曼迪斯Ozymandias文学精神是政治和社会革命的诞生物Literary spirit as the accompaniment political and social revolution浪漫主义是文学的革命形式Romanticism is the literar y form of the revolution约翰·济慈John Keats-夜莺颂Ode to a Nightingale秋颂To Autumn简·奥斯汀Jane Austen-outward(生活平静）-inward(故事跌宕起伏）理智与情感Sense and Sensibility傲慢与偏见Pride and Prejudice-It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 凡是有钱的单身汉，总想娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的道理。
英国文学史课程考试大纲
Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureChapter 1 The Making of EnglandI.The Britons : a tribe of Celts, the early inhabitants in the Island, form which (Britons)Britain ( i.e. Land of Britons) got its name.（识记，重点）II.The Roman Conquest : In 55 B.C. Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar, the Roman conqueror. The Roman conquest lasted for about 400 years (to AD 410). Road systems in London were built. （识记，重点）III.The English Conquest : Britain invaded by three tribes (pirates) from North Europe: The Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Seven kingdoms were established----then combined into a united kingdom called England (the land of Angles)--- the three tribes mixed into one people called English or the Angles, and the three dialects grew into one single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. （识记，重点）IV.The Social Condition of The Anglo-Saxons (识记，一般)V.Anglo-Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence: The Anglo-Saxons were heathen people, believing in old mythology in North Europe. They were Christianized in the 7th century.（识记，次重点）Chapter 2 BeowulfI.Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Beowulf (a poem of more than 3000 lines) is the national epic of theEnglish people. （识记，重点）II.The Story (理解，一般)III.Analysis of its Content(理解，一般)IV.Features （应用，重点）1)the use of alliteration ( certain accented words in a line begin with the same consonants;2)the use of metaphors/kennings (e.g. “Ring-giver” for king , or “whale’s road” for sea)3)the use of understatements (e.g. “not troublesome” for very welcome, “need not praise” for aright to condemn)Chapter 3 Feudal England1）The Norman ConquestI.The Danish Invasion (识记，一般)II.The Norman Conquest（1）The French-speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. William was later crowned as King of England.（识记，次重点）（2）The Norman Conquest marked the establishment of feudalism in England. （识记，次重点）（3）The influence of Norman Conquest on the English language. （应用，重点）2) Feudal England (skip)4)The RomanceI. The content of the Romance(1)The most prevailing kind of literature in Feudal England was the romance. （识记，重点）(2)The essence of the Romances id chivalry. （识记，次重点）II. The Romance Cycle(1)Matters of Britain (King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, the culmination of whichis Sir Gawain and the Green Knight); （理解，重点）(2)Matters of France; (识记，一般)(3)Matters of Rome. (识记，一般)Chapter 4 Langland（1）William Langland: author of Piers the Plowman;（2）Piers the Plowman is one of the greatest of English poems, written in the form of a dream vision,;（3）depicting the feudal England by allegory and symbolism. （识记，重点）Chapter 5 The English Ballads(1)definition of Ballad （应用，重点）(2)The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad. (识记，一般)(3)The Robin Hood Ballads （理解，重点）Chapter 6 Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)(1) father/founder of English poetry(2) major works: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales（识记，重点）(3) The Canterbury Tales: （应用，重点）A. Dramatic structure: a framed story (definition); (识记，一般)B. realistic presentation of characters (e.g. Wife of Bath) and contemporary life; (识记，一般)C. Heroic couple (definition), which is Chaucer’s chief contribution to the metric scheme of theEnglish poetry; （理解，重点）D. He used London dialect (instead of Latin or French) as to write poetry, thus making EnglishLanguage of literature. （识记，重点）Part Two: The English RenaissanceChapter 1 Old English in TransitionI. The New Monarchy(1) Hundred Years War with France (1337-1453) (识记，一般)(2) The War of the Roses (1455-1485) (识记，一般)(3) Tudor Dynasty , a centralized monarchy (to meet the needs of the rising bourgeoisie(识记，一般)II. The Reformation(1) Henry VIII declared the break with Rome, and established Protestantism; (识记，一般)III. The English Bible(1)The first complete English Bible was translated by John Wycliffe (1324?-1384), themorning star of the Reformation,” and his foll owers. （识记，重点）(2)King James Bible, the Authorized Version. （识记，重点）V.The Enclosure Movement (识记，一般)VI.The Commercial Expansion (识记，一般)VII.The War with Spain(1)the rout of the Spanish fleet “ Armada” (Invincible)（识记，次重点）(2)The English Bourgeoisie came to the fore in the arena of history. (识记，一般)VII．The Renaissance and Humanism(1)definition of The Renaissance（应用，重点）(2)Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. （识记，重点）Chapter 2 More(1)Thomas More (1478-1535): the greatest of the English humanists, author of Utopia. （识记，重点）(2)Utopia（理解，重点）Chapter 3 The Flowering of English LiteratureI. The Flowering of English Literature （Skip）II. Sidney and Raleigh(1) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1686): well-known as a poet and a critic of poetry. (识记，一般)(2) His Apology for Poetry is one of the earliest English literary essays. （理解，次重点）III. Edmund Spencer (1552-1599)(1) Known as “The Poet’s Poet”, held a position as a model of poetical art among theRenaissance English poets. （识记，重点）(2) The Faerie Queene （理解，重点）(3) The Spenserian Stanza （理解，重点）IV. John Lyly (1554?-1606) (skip)V. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)(1) founder of English materialist philosophy; (识记，次重点）(2) founder of modern science in England (Knowledge is power.) （识记，重点）(3) two works Advancement of Learning and New Instrument （put forward “Inductive method ofreasoning”）（识记，重点）(4) also famous for his Essays. （理解，重点）Chapter 4 DramaI. The Miracle Play(1) The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its drama. （识记，重点）(2) English drama had roots reaching back to the miracle plays of the Middle Ages. （识记，一般）(3) definition of miracle plays (Based on Bible stories) （理解，次重点）II. The Morality Play(1) a little later than miracle plays. （理解，重点）(2) definition (conflict of good and evil with allegorical personages, such as Mercy, Peace, Hate,Folly and so on.) （理解，次重点）III. The Interlude（识记，一般）IV. The Classical Drama（识记，一般）Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays were the forms of drama prevailing until the reign of Elizabeth and paved the way for the flourishing of drama. （识记，次重点）V. The London TheatreIn the 16th century, London became the center of English drama. （识记，一般）VI．The Audience（识记，一般）VII. The PlaywrightsThe University Wits (Lyly, Peele, Marlowe, Greene, Lodge and Nash) （识记，次重点）Chapter 5 Marlowe (1564-1593)I. The most gifted of the “university wits” was Christopher Marlowe. （识记，重点）II. Marlowe’s best includes three of his plays: Tamburlaine(1587); The Jew of Malta (1592);Doctor Faustus（识记，重点）III. Doctor Faustus（理解，重点）IV. Social significance of Marlowe’s Plays（理解，重点）V. Marlowe’s literary achievementMarlowe first made blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the principal instrument of English drama. （识记，重点）Chapter 6 Shakespeare (1564-1616)I. LifeWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon, a little town in Warwickshire. All through his life he wrote 37 (?39) plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. He was acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance.（识记，重点）II. A Chronological list of Shakespeare’s plays（识记，一般）III. Periods of his dramatic composition(1)The 1st period: Historical plays (his first theatrical success was his historicalplays Henry VI) and four comedies. （识记，一般）(2)The 2nd period: great comedies（识记，一般）(3)The 3rd period: great tragedies and dark comedies（识记，一般）(4)4th period: romances or reconciliation plays（识记，一般）IV. The Great Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It;Twelfth Night（应用，重点）V. The Mature Histories(1) Henry IV（识记，一般）(2)The Image of Henry V: the symbol of Shakespeare’s ideal kingship. （识记，一般）(3) The image of Sir John Falstaff（理解，重点）VI. The Great Tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth（应用，重点）VII. Hamlet（应用，重点）（1）The story（识记，一般）(2)The character of Hamlet (hesitant humanist) （理解，重点）(3) The melancholy of Hamlet（理解，重点）VIII. The Later Comedies（识记，一般）IX. The Poems(1) Venus and Adonis（识记，一般）(2) The Rape of Lucrece（识记，一般）(3) sonnets (154, definition) （理解，重点）X. Features of Shakespeare’s Drama（理解，次重点）Chapter 7 Ben Jonson (1572-1637Mainly remembered for his comedies: Everyman in his Humour; Volpone, or The Fox; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair（识记，一般）Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionChapter 1 The English Revolution and the Restoration (skip)Chapter 2 John Milton (1608-1674)I. Life and work(1) Areopagitica: appealing for the freedom of press. （识记，重点）(2) three epics: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes（识记，重点）II. Paradise Lost(1) The story（识记，一般）(2)Theme and characterization（理解，次重点）(3) The Image of Satan（理解，重点）III. Samson Agonistes（理解，次重点）IV. Brief summary （理解，次重点）Chapter 3 John Bunyan (1628-1688)(1)The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory. （识记，重点）(2)Content of The Pilgrim’s Progress（理解，重点）Chapter 4 Metaphysical poets and Cavalier poets(1)definition of “Metaphysical poetry”（理解，重点）(2)John Donne was the founder of the Metaphysical School. （识记，重点）(3)Other members of the metaphysical school: George Herbert (1593-1633); Andrew Marvell(1621-1678); Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) （识记，一般）Chapter 5 Some prose writers (Skip)Chapter 6 Restoration LiteratureI. Restoration Comedies (skip)II. John Dryden (1631-1700)(1)The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration period (1660-1688), poet, playwright,and critic. （识记，重点）(2)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy established his position as the leading critic of the day. （识记，次重点）(3)He was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the next century. （识记，一般）Part Four The Eighteenth CenturyChapter 1 The Enlightenment and Classicism in English LiteratureI. The Enlightenment and the 18th century England(1) After the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688, England became a constitutional monarchy and powerpassed form the King to the Parliament and the cabinet ministers. （识记，次重点）(2) The Enlightenment in Europe（理解，重点）(3) The English Enlighteners: The representatives of the Enlightenment in English Literature wereJoseph Addison and Richard Steele, the essayists, and Alexander Pope, the poet. （识记，重点）II. (Neo-)Classicism （理解，重点）Chapter 2 Addison and Steele1. Richard Steele (1672-1729) and The Tatler（识记，重点）2. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and The Spectator（识记，重点）3. In the hands of Addison and Steele, the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre. Using it as a form a character sketching and story-telling, they ushered in the dawn of modern English novel.（识记，次重点）Chapter 3 PopeI. Life: Alexander Pope (1688-1774) is the most important poet in the first half of the 18th century.（识记，重点）II.Work1. Essay on Criticism(1711) (some proverbial maxims: For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. To err is human, to forgive, divine. A little learning is a dangerous thing.) （识记，重点）2. The Rape of the Lock (1714) （识记，一般）3. Pope’s Homer: He translated the entire Iliad and Half of the Odyssey. （识记，一般）4. Pope’s Shakespeare: He was an editor of Shakespeare’s plays.（识记，一般）5. The Dunciad (1728-1742) （识记，一般）6. Essay on Man (1732-1734) （识记，一般）III. Workmanship and limitationPope is the most important representative of the English classical poetry and was at his best in satire and epigram. （识记，重点）Chapter 4 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)1. His works:(1) A Tale of a Tub : a satire upon all religious sects. （识记，次重点）(2) The Battle of Books: an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time. （识记，次重点）(3) Bickerstaff Almanac （识记，一般）(4) Gulliver’s Travels: a political satire（理解，重点）2.His style: 1）simple, clear and vigorous language (“ Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style); 2）master of satire and irony（识记，次重点）Chapter 5 Defoe and the Rise of the English NovelI. The Rise of the English Novel: The modern English novel in the 18th century.（识记，重点）Important novelists: Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne. （识记，次重点）II. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)(1)His works: Robinson Crusoe(1719);Captain Singleton(1720); Moll Flanders(1722);Colonel Jacque (1722) （识记，次重点）(2)Robinson Crusoe: 1) the story; 2) the character of Robinson Crusoe (the representative ofthe rising bourgeoisie, practical and exact, religious, mindful of profit, colonizer) （理解，重点）Chapter Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)His Novel: Pamela (, or, Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents): epistolary novel (novel of letters) （理解，重点）Chapter 7 Henry Fielding （1707-1754）1.Father of the English novel（识记，重点）2. Joseph Andrews（识记，一般）3. Jonathan Wild (exposing the English bourgeois society and mocking its political system) （识记，一般）4. (The History of )Tom Jones, (A Foundling)1)The Story（识记，一般）2)Characterization（识记，一般）5. Fielding as the founder of the English realist novels（理解，重点）6. Some features of Fielding’s novels. （应用，重点）Chapter 8 Smollett and SterneI. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)(1) Roderick Random (1748): first important work by Smollett. It is a picaresque novel (i.e. a novelof travels and adventures). （识记，重点）(2)Humphry Clinker (1771): the best and pleasantest of Smollett’s novels (also a picaresque novlenarrated in the form of letters.) （识记，一般）II. Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)1. (The Life and Opinions of) Trstram Shandy(1760-1767): a plotless, formless novel full ofdigressions, following “stream of consciousness”.（理解，重点）2. A Sentimental Journey(giving the name of the School of “sentimentalism”).（识记，重点）3. Sterne is remembered as a representative of sentimentalism in the 18th century. （识记，重点）Chapter 9 18th Century Drama and Sheridan1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)1) The Rivals( Mrs. Malaprop, thus giving the term “malapropism”, which means a ridiculousmisusage of big words.) （识记，次重点）2) The School for Scandal: a great “ comedy of manners”, a satire of English high society. （理解，次重点）Chapter 10 JohnsonSamuel Johnson (1709-1784): mainly remembered for his Dictionary. （识记，重点）Chapter 11 Goldsmith (1730-1774)I. A representative of sentimentalists（识记，重点）II. Work:1. poems: The Traveler and The Deserted Village（识记，次重点）2. Novel: The Vicar of Wakefield ( Goldsmith’s masterpiece, for which he was acknowledged to beone of the representatives of English sentimentalism.) （识记，重点）3. Comedies:1) The Good-natured man (1768), a comedy of character; （识记，一般）2) She stoops to conquer (1773), a comedy of manners; （识记，一般）4. Essays: The Citizens of the World (1762), a collection of essays（识记，一般）Chapter 12 GibbonEdward Gibbon (1737-1794): author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire（识记，重点）Chapter 13 Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism in PoetryI. Sentimentalism in English poetry: Thomas Gray (1716-1771) famous for his Elegy Written in aCountry Churchyard, which is a model of sentimental poetry, and fromwhich Gray was called a poet of “Graveyard School”. （识记，重点）II. Pre-RomanticismChapter 14 William Blake1) Songs of Innocence（理解，重点）2) Songs of Experience（理解，重点）3) T he Marriage of Heaven and Hell（识记，一般）4) His position in English poetry （识记，一般）Chapter 15 Robert Burns1. A poet of the peasants; （识记，重点）2. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; songs written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects (some examples: A Red, Red Rose; My Heart’s in the Highlands. Auld Lang Syne) （识记，重点）Part Five: Romanticism in EnglandChapter 1 The Romantic Period1. Romanticism (definition and characteristics)（应用，重点）2. Lake poets (or Lakers, or escapist romanticists): Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey（识记，重点）3. Active romanticists: Byron, Shelley and Keats. （识记，重点）4. Romantic prose was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey; （识记，一般）5. The only great novelist in this period was Walter Scott. （识记，重点）Chapter 2 William Wordsworth (1770-1850)1. In 1798, Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published Lyrical Ballads, which marked the break with the conventional poetic tradition of the 18th century Neo-classism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England. （识记，重点）2. In the preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry. ( “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”) （识记，次重点）3. Some of his short lyrics: Lines Written in Early Spring; To the Cuckoo; I wandered lonely as a Cloud; My Heart Leaps Up; Intimations of Immortality; Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby; The Solitary Reaper. （识记，次重点）Chapter 3 Coleridge and SoutheyI. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)Poems: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan（识记，重点）II. Robert Southey (1774-1843) : one of the Lakers. （识记，一般）Chapter 4 George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)1. Childe Harold Pilgrimage( written in Spenserian stanza a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcbcc)（理解，重点）2. Don Juan: his masterpiece, written in “ottva rima”, each stanza containing 8 iambic pentameterlines rhymed abababcc)（理解，重点）3. Byronic Hero (definition) （理解，重点）Chapter 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1882)1. Queen Mab: Shelley’s first long poem of import ance, in the form of a fairy-tale dream,presenting his views on philosophy, religion, morality and social problems. （理解，重点）2. The Revolt of Islam (expressing his political and aesthetic ideas) （识记，重点）3. Prometheus Unbound: Shelley’s masterpiece, a lyrical drama in 4 acts, symbolizing man’sstruggle against tyranny and oppression. （理解，重点）4. The Masque of Anarchy(criticizing “free competition”)（识记，次重点）5. Song to the Men of England (calling on the working class to rise against the ruling oppressors)（识记，次重点）6. Lyrics on Nature and Love: Ode to the West Wind(“If Winter comes, Can spring be farbehind?”); One Word is Too Often Profaned（识记，次重点）7. In Defence of Poetry(Poetry is the indispensable agent of civilization. “Poets are theunacknowledged legisl ators of the world”, and poetry can play a very important part in the spiritual life of society.) （识记，次重点）Chapter 6 John Keats (1795-1821)1. Five Long Poems : Endymion（识记，次重点）; Isabella（识记，一般）;The Eve of St. Agnes;（识记，一般）Lamia; Hyperion（识记，一般）2. Short Poems: Ode on a Grecian Urn (“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”) （识记，重点）; On FirstLooking into Chapman’s Homer (a sonnet) （识记，次重点）; On the Grasshopper and the Cricket（识记，次重点）;Ode to Autumn; （识记，一般）Ode on Melancholy（识记，一般）; Ode to a Nightingale（识记，次重点）Chapter 7 Charles Lamb (1775-1834)1. The Essays of Elia(very humorous) （识记，一般）2.Tales from Shakespeare (collaboration with Mary Lamb) （识记，次重点）Chapter 8 Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt1. William Hazlitt: essayist, author of Table Talk; The Plain Speaker; Sketches and Essays（识记，一般）2. Henry James Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), essayist（识记，一般）Chapter 9 De Quincey1. Thomas De Qunicey (1785-1859), essayist, critic, author of The Confession of an English Opium- Eater. （识记，一般）Chapter 10 Walter Scott1. Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the historical novel. （识记，次重点）2. His Historical Novels1) Rob Roy (Red Robert, about 1715 uprising) （识记，一般）2) Ivanhoe (about Norman Conquest) （识记，次重点）3) features of his historical novels. （理解，次重点）Part Six: English Critical RealismChapter 1 The Rise of Critical Realism in England1. English Critical Realism1) definition（应用，重点）2) The greatest English realist of the 19th century is Charles Dickens. （识记，重点）Chapter 2 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)1.The First Period (1836-1841)1) The Pickwick Papers（理解，次重点）2) Oliver Twist（理解，重点）3) Nicholas Nickleby（识记，一般）4) The Old Curiosity Shop（识记，一般）2. The Second Period (1842-1850)1) Dombey and Son（识记，一般）2) David Copperfield（理解，重点）3. The Third Period (1851-1870)1) Bleak House（识记，一般）2) Hard Times（识记，一般）3) Little Dorrit（识记，一般）4) A Tale of Two Cities（理解，重点）5) Great Expectations（识记，一般）4.Dickens : Man and Writer（理解，重点）Chapter 3 Thackeray1. William Thackeray (1811-1863): a representative of critical realism. （识记，重点）2. The Snobs of England, his first literary success, a satirical description of the different strata of the ruling class. （识记，一般）3. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Thackeray’s masterpiece, the peak of his li terary career.（理解，重点）Chapter 4 Some Women Novelists1. Jane Austen (1775-1817)1) Sense and Sensibility（识记，重点）2) Pride and Prejudice（理解，重点）3) Emma（识记，次重点）4) Persuasion（识记，次重点）5) Mansfield Park（识记，次重点）2. The Brontë Sisters1) Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855): Jane Eyre (the image of Jane Eyre) （应用，重点）2) Emily Brontë (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights ( the image of Heathcliff) （应用，重点）3) Anne Brontë(1820-1849) （识记，一般）3. Mrs Gaskell ( Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell) (1810-1865): Mary Barton (, a Tale of Manchester):a realistic novel giving a picture of the class struggle in the period of Chartism. （识记，一般）4. George Eliot (1819-1880):1) Adam Bede:a novel of moral conflicts, showing the contest of personal desires, passion, temperament, human weaknesses and the claims of moral duty. （理解，次重点）2) The Mill on the Floss（识记，次重点）3) Silas Marner（识记，次重点）4) The novels of George Eliot mark the beginning of a new stage in the development of English critical realism. Her characters are not grotesque types, but just common men and women. （识记，一般）Part Seven: Prose-writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century Chapter 1 Carlyle1. The Mid and late 19th century is sometimes called the Victorian Age because of the reign of Queen Victoria during 1837-1901. （识记，次重点）2. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)1) Sartor Resartus (meaning “ the tailor retailored” or “the tailor reclothed”) （识记，一般）2) The French Revolution（识记，一般）3) Heros and Hero-Worship ( “ The History of the World is the Biogarphy of Great Men.”) （理解，重点）4) Past and Present（识记，一般）Chapter 2 Ruskin and Some other Prose-Writers1. John Ruskin (1819-1900): author of Sesame and Lilies; Modern Painters（识记，一般）2. Mathew Arnold (1822-1888)1) Literary Criticism: Essays in Criticism; Essays in Criticism, Second Series（理解，次重点）2) Social Criticism: Culture and Anarchy ( representative work). （理解，重点）3) Dover Beach(Arnold’s masterpiece, a poem expressing disappointment with modern civilization) （识记，重点）3. Thomas Babington Macaulay: Prose stylist, author of History of England, his masterpiece. （识记，一般）Chapter 3 Tennyson1. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The most important poet of the Victorian Age. （识记，重点）2. In Memoriam (in memory of A.H. Hallam, e.g. “Break, Break, Break”) （识记，重点）3. The Idylls of the King（识记，一般）Chapter 4 The Brownings1. Robert Browning: His principal achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry a new form, the “dramatic monologue (e.g. My Last Duchess).（识记，重点）2. Mrs Browning (Elizabeth Barrett): Sonnets from the Portuguese（识记，一般）Chapter 5 The Rossettis and Swinburne1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): a founder of “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”. His best known poem is perhaps The Blessed Damozel. （识记，一般）2. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) （识记，一般）3. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) : author of Rubaiyat（识记，次重点）4. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909): author of poems and Ballads. His poems, together with those of Rossetti and others, foreshadowed the literary trend of decadence and “art for art’s sake’, represented by Oscar Wilde in the 1890s. （识记，次重点）Chapter 6 William Morris (1834-1896)1. A Dream of John Ball and News from Nowhere are the two most important of Morris’s prose works. Both are in the form of dreams, the first of the past and the second of the future. （识记，次重点）2. News from Nowhere: called “the crown and climax of his whole work”, describing a dream of the future classes society. （理解，重点）Chapter 7 Literary Trends at the End of the Century1. Naturalism1) definition（理解，重点）2) representatives (George Gissing and Thomas Hardy) （识记，次重点）2. Neo-Romanticism1) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was the representative of neo-Romanticism (inventingexciting adventures and fascinating romances) in English Literature. （识记，次重点）2) Treasure Island is his best-known work. （识记，重点）3) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde（识记，次重点）3. Aestheticism1. definition (Art should serve no religious, moral, social or any anther purposes except itself) （理解，重点）2. Principle: Art for art’s sake. （识记，重点）3. The two most important representatives of aestheticism in English literature are Walter Pater(1839-1894) and Oscar Wilde(1856-1900). （识记，重点）4. Oscar Wilde: a spokesman for the aesthetic movement in England. （识记，重点）1) Two collections of Fairy tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) （识记，次重点）;A House of Pomegranates (1891); （识记，一般）2) A collection of short story: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories; （识记，一般）3) A series of critical essays: Intentions (1891); （识记，一般）4) His only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) （识记，次重点）5) Four comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan(1893); A Woman of No Importance (1894); An IdealHusband (1895); The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) （识记，重点）6) One tragedy: Salomé（识记，重点）Part Eight Twentieth Century English LiteratureChapter 1 The New Century: Social and Historical Background (skip)Chapter 2 English Novel of Early 20th Century1. The Realist:1) Samuel Butler (1835-1902): Erewhon (1872); Erewhon Revisited (1901); The Way of All Flesh (1903, his masterpiece) （识记，一般）2) Goerge Meridith: T he Egoist（识记，一般）3) H(erbert).G(eorge). Wells: realistic novels, scientific fantasies, discussion novels（识记，一般）4) Thomas Hardy (to be discusses in detail)5) John Galsworthy (to be discusses in detail)2. Other important novelists of the early 20th century1) Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936): called “the bard of imperialism”.His works: Kim(1901); The Jungle Book (1894); The Second Jungle Book (1895) （识记，次重点）2) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)The Old Wives’ Tales（识记，一般）3) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): a Pole by birth, starting Learning English at his twenties. His works; Heart of Darkness; Lord Kim; Nostromo（识记，重点）3. Henry James (1843-1916)1)Born and educated in the U.S.as an American, but was naturalized as a British subject in 1915.He was the forerunner of the “Stream of consciousness” literature.（识记，重点）2)His representative works: Daisy Miller (1879); The Portrait of a Lady (1881); The Wings ofthe Dove (1902); The Ambassador (1903); The Golden Bow l (19040（识记，重点）4. Katharine Mansfield (1888-1923): Born in New Zealand, famous woman writer of short stories.（识记，一般）Chapter 3 Hardy1. Thomas Hardy （1840-1928）: Novelist and poet, one of the English Critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. （识记，一般）2. His principal works are the Wessex Novels, i.e. novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. （识记，次重点）3. The Wessex novels: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872); Far From the Madding Crowd (1874); The Return of the Native (1878); The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886); Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1896). （识记，次重点）4. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed, Hardy’s most famous book.（理解，重点）5. Jude the Obscure:“a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit” and “ the contrast between the ideal life a man wishe d to lead and the squalid real life he was fated to lead.” (Hardy’s words)（理解，次重点）Chapter 4 Galsworthy1. John Galsworthy (1867-1933): a representative of bourgeois realism in the 20th-century English novel，winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.（识记，一般）2. The Forsyte Saga: the prose epic of the Forsyte family in two trilogies, each consisting of three novels and two interludes. （识记，一般）1) The first trilogy: The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property(1906); The Indian Summer of a Forsyte (Interlude, 1917); In Chancery (1920); Awakening (Interlude, 1921); To Let (1921) （识记，重点）2) The second trilogy: A Modern Comedy: The White Monkey (1924); A Silent Wooing (interlude, 1927); The Silver Spoon (1926); Passers-by (interlude, 1927); Swan Song (1928) （识记，一般）3) The two trilogies The Forsyte saga, and A Modern Comedy, should be considered a monumental work of critical realism in the English literature in the 20th century. （识记，次重点）4) The Man of Property（理解，重点）Chapter 5 The Irish Dramatic MovementThe leaders of the Irish Renaissance (The Irish dramatic revival) were the poet, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) and Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), both founders of the national Irish theatre, called the Abby Theatre. （识记，重点）Chapter 6 Bernard Shaw1. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Irish playwright, “a good man fallen among the Fabians”. (Lenin’s words)（识记，一般）2.He lived a long life and wrote 51 plays, which include: Widower’s Houses（识记，一般）; Mrs Warr en’s Profession（理解，重点）; The Devil’s Disciple（识记，一般）; Man and Superman （识记，一般）; Major Barbara（理解，次重点）; Heartbreak House（理解，次重点）; Saint Joan （识记，一般）; The Apple Cart（识记，一般）; Pygmalion（识记，一般）。
英国文学史课程大纲(最新)
外国语言文化学院《英国文学史》课程教学大纲History of En glish Literature先修课程[1]张定铨，《新编简明英语文学史》，上海外语教育出版社[2]自编，《英国文学史作品选读》。
[3]Joh n Peck & Marti n Coyle: A Brief History of En glish Literature , London: Palgrave, 2002[4]梁实秋：英国文学史。
北京：新星出版社，2011⑸ 索金梅：英国文学史。
天津：南开大学出版社，2009⑹ 王松林、朱卫红：英国文学史。
武汉：华中师范大学出版社，2010、课程简介本课程是英语专业和翻译专业学科领域课程中的专业核心课程,于讲授英语文学的历史发展脉络以及重要的文学流派、作家以及他们的特征。
本课程以史为纲，按照文学发展主线，结合社会背景、思想背景，串讲各个时期主要的流派以及作家，选讲典型的作品，以培养学生对英国文学素养。
二、理论教学内容、教学目标及学时安排章目学时编号章目名称In troduct ion教学内容与教学目标安排识记与领会：1.课程安排（如上课方式,考核方式）；介绍英国文学史的概况;课程名称英国文学史英文名称适用专业英语专业和翻译专业课程编码学分/周学时2/2课程性质课程类别推荐教材学习资源其基本任务在开课学期3.介绍诗歌的基本要素简单应用：英国文学史概况，各类文学体裁的基本要素Old and Middle En glishLiterature 识记与领会：Beowulf, short lyrics,Medieval Roma nces. Ballads, Lan gla nd.Malory, Chaucer简单应用：古英语和中古英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chapter 1阅读作品：Geoffrey Chaucer，TheCan terbury Tales 选段Ren aissa nee En glishLiterature 识记与领会：16th Cen tury poetry and p rose, Shakespeare, Other playwrights，戏剧的基本要素简单应用：文艺复兴时期英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chapter 2 [I, II (1-3)] & chapter阅读作品：William Shakespeare，Sonnet 18, Romeo and Juliet 选段，Hamlet 选段17th Cen tury En glishLiterature 识记与领会：Do nne, Marvel, Bu nyan,Milt on, Dryden简单应用：17世纪英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chap ter 2 [II (4), III, IV, V (1)], cha pter 4 (IV), cha pter 5 (I), cha pter 6(I,II)阅读作品：John Donne, “The Flea ” ; John Milton, Paradise Lost 选段18th Cen tury En glishLiterature 识记与领会：Alexa nder Pope, SamuelJoh nson, the Rise of Novel from AphraBehn to Jane Austen，小说的基本要素简单应用：18世纪英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chapter 2 [V(2)], cha pter 5, cha pter 6 (III), cha pter 8 (II), chapter 10(I)阅读作品：Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 选段，Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice选段Roma ntic Literature 识记与领会：Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,Byro n, Shelley, Keats简单应用:特性阅读教材:8 (III)阅读作品:浪漫主义时期英语文学发展及cha pter 7, cha pter 10 (II), cha pterWilliam Wordsworth, “ I wan dere Ionely as a cloud ，P. ” Shelley, Ode tothe West WindVictoria n Literature 识记与领会：Novelists: Dicke ns, the Bron tes,G. Eliot, Thackeray, Gaskell, Hardy;Po ets: Tennyson, the Brow nin gs; Drama:Bernard Shaw, O. Wilde简单应用：维多利亚时期英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chapter 8 (III-VI), cha pter 9, cha pter 10 (III), cha pter 11, cha pter 12(I-V), cha pter 13 (II, III)Moder nist Literature 阅读作品：Charles Dicke ns. GreatExpectation 选段，Thomas Hardy, Tess ofthe d ' Urbervill选段识记与领会：Co nrad, Lawre nee, Woolf, Joyce, Yeats, Eliot, Aude n简单应用：现代主义时期英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chapter (VI), cha pter 13 (IV, V, VI, VII), chapter 14, chapter 15, cha pter16阅读作品：Virgi nia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 选段，T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J.Alfred P rufrockAfter Moder nism三、教学方式与方法教师课堂讲授；学生课堂讨论四、考核方式闭卷考试五、成绩评定方式识记与领会：Postmoder nist no velists, the Moveme nt Poetry, Heaney简单应用：现代主义之后的英语文学发展及特性阅读教材：chapter 17, chapter 18阅读作品：William Goldi ng, Lord of the Flies 选段，Samuel Beckett, Waiting forGodot选段学期考试成绩占60%，期中论文30% (1500字，abstract和参考书目不算字数，期中交，交打印版，William Shakespeare 的Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet，John Donne的the flea, Jane Austen 的Pride and Prejudice 四选一），平时考查成绩占10%（分小组做Presentation,小组得分即个人得分）。
英国文学史大纲
A Brief Outline of British Literature（英国文学概要）I. The early and Medieval literature（早期和中世纪文学）1. Beowulf （贝奥武夫，有记载的最早的一部英国文学作品）2. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales。
（杰弗里乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集）II. The English Renaissance (1485-1603) （英国文艺复兴时期）1. Edmund Spence r’s The Shepherd's Calendar and Faerie Queen（埃德蒙斯宾塞的牧羊人日记和精灵女王）2. Francis Bacon’s Essays（弗朗西斯培根的散文）3. William Shakespeare’s dramas（威廉莎士比亚的戏剧）III. The 17th century (1603-1660)1. The English Revolution （英国革命）2. John Milton’s Paradise Lost（弥尔顿的失乐园）3. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress（约翰班扬的天路历程）IV. The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660-1798) （复辟与十八世纪）1. enlightenment （启蒙运动）2. neo-classicism:（新古典主义）a. John Dryden’s dramas（约翰德来端的戏剧）b. Ale xander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock （亚历山大蒲柏的夺发记）c. Richard Steele and Joseph Addison's essays（理查德斯蒂尔和约瑟夫艾迪生的散文）d. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary（赛缪尔约翰逊的词典）3. rise of the novel writing:（小说创作的兴起）a. Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe（丹尼尔笛福的鲁滨逊漂流记）b. Janathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels（贾纳森斯威夫特的格列佛游记）V. The Age of Romanticism (1798-1830)（浪漫主义时代）1. Pre-Romanticism : （前浪漫主义）a. William Blake （威廉布雷克英国诗人和画家）b. Robert Burn （罗伯特彭斯）c. William Wordsworth（威廉华兹华斯英国诗人）2. Romanticism （浪漫主义）a. P. B. Shelley （Percy Bysshe Shelley 珀西比西雪莱）b. G. G. Byron（George Gordon Byron 乔治戈登拜伦）c. J. Keats（John Keats 约翰济慈）3. Jane Austen’s novels（简奥斯丁小说）VI. The Victorian Age (1832-1901)（维多利亚时代）1. industrial revolution （工业革命）2. realism （现实主义）a. Charles Dickens （查尔斯狄更斯英国作家）b. Thomas Hardy（托马斯哈代英国小说家）c. Bronte sisters（勃朗特三姐妹）d. George Eliot（乔治艾略特）3. aestheticism: Oscar Wilde （唯美主义，奥斯卡王尔德）VII. The 20th century (1901-)1. two world wars（两次世界大战）2. modernism（现代主义）3. psychological fiction and stream of consciousness (心理小说与意识流)a. D. H. Lawrence （David Herbert Lawrence大卫赫伯特劳伦斯）b. James Joyce（詹姆斯乔伊斯）c. Virginia Woolf（弗吉尼亚伍尔夫）4. Poetry（诗歌）Definition of Literature ：Literature refers to All written or spoken compositions ( discourses) designed to tell stories, dramatize situations and reveal thoughts and emotions, and also more importantly, to interest, entertain, stimulate, broaden and ennoble readers. （文学的定义：文学是所有口头或书面的成分设计讲故事，戏剧化情况，揭示思想和情感，而且更重要的是，兴趣，娱乐，刺激，拓宽和授予爵位的读者。
英国文学史考试内容
英国⽂学史考试内容3. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.4. Chaucer composed a long narrative poem named Troilus and Gressie based on Boccaccio’s poem Filostrato.6. The Canterbury Tales contains the general prologue and 24 hours, two of which left unfinished.7. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury Tales.8. __Romance___ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Age.1. What are the Chaucer’s contributions to English literature?①Chaucer, for the first time in English literature, presents to the readers a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and describes a series of vivid characters from all walks of life in The Canterbury Tales.②Chaucer introduces from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the old English alliterative verse. He is the first to use the rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, which is to be called the heroic couplet.③Chaucer affirms men’s and women’s right to pursue earthly happiness and opposed asceticism ( avoiding physical pleasures and comforts). He praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life and he exposes and satirizes the social vices, including the corruption of the Church.④Chaucer is the first great poet who wrote in the current English. His production of so much excellent poetry is an important factor in establishing English as the literary language of the country. Chaucer uses London dialect in his writings and the contributes to making it the foundation for modern English speech.2. What are the essential features of romance in the medieval English literature?The romance was the prevailing form of literature in the Middle Ages. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, Its essential features are:①. it lacks general resemblance to truth or reality.②It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues.③. It contains perilous adventures more or less remote from ordinary life.④. It lays emphasis on supreme devotion to a fair lady.⑤. The central character of the romance is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapons. He is commonly described as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournaments, or fighting for his lord in battle. He is devoted to the church and the king.4.What is the significance of The Canterbury Tales?①In his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer gives us a faithful picture of the society of his time, ② Taking the standard of the rising bourgeoisie, he affirms men and opposes the dogma of asceticism preached by the Church. ③ As a forer unner of humanism, he praise man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. His tales expose and satirize the evils of his time. They attack the degeneration of the noble, the heartlessness of the judge, and the corruption of the Church. The first to present a comprehensive and realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.4. Bacon’s style has three prominent qual ities: __directness_, __terseness_ and __forcefulness.5. Hamlet, Othello, King and __Macbeth___ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.6.___Humanism_ is the essence of the Renaissance.※1. Sonnet: A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. There are two major patterns of rhyme in sonnets written in the English language: (1) The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet falls into two main parts: an octave rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet rhyming cdecde or some variant, such as cdccdc. (2) The Earl of Surrey and other English experimenters in the 16th century also developed a stanza form called the English sonnet, or else the Shakespearean sonnet. This sonnet falls into three quatrains and a concluding couplet: abab cdcd efef gg. There was one notable variant, the Spenserian sonnet, in which Edmund Spenser linked each quatrain to thenext by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.2. English Renaissance:The Renaissance refers to the transitional period from the medieval to the modern world. It first started in Italy in the14th century. The Renaissance means rebirth or revival. It was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek classics, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation, and the economic expansion. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance. The English Renaissance did not begin until the reign of Henry VIII. It was regarded as England’s Golden Age, especially in literature. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. This period produced such literary giants as Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Bacon, etc.5. Give a brief analysis of Shylock, a character in Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of V enice.Shylock is a Jewish usurer, and he is a tragic-comic character in the play.①He is comic because he finally becomes the one punished by his own evil deed. He is a typical merchant to be made fun of. He is avaricious. He accumulates as much wealth as he can and he even equates his lost daughter with his lost money. He is also cruel. In order to revenge, he would rather claim a pound of flesh from his enemy Antonio than get back his loan.②On the other hand, Shylock is also a tragic figure. He is the victim of the society. He is a Jew. As a minor nationality, he is not treated equally by the society. The law is harsh to him. He has to make as much money as he can in order to protect himself. He is abused by Antonio, and therefore, he wants to get revenge.3. In 1637 Milton wrote the finest pastoral elegy in English, ____Lycidas_, to memorize the tragic death of a Cambridge friend.4. __John Bunyan_ wrote his masterpiece _Pilgrim’s Progress__ during his second imprisonment and it is the most successful __religious allegory__ in the English language.5. John Donne is the founder of the school of _metaphysical poetry_. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantastically in form.Passage 1One short sleep past, we wake eternallyAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt dieA. Identify the poet and the poem _John Donne Death, Be Not Proud______B. What does the phrase “one short sleep” mean? ______death__________________C. What idea do these two lines express?It reveals Donne’s belief in life after death. Here death is compared to rest or sleep. Death is butmomentarily while happiness after death is eternal.Passage 2..“ To wage by force or guile eternal war,Irreconcilable to our grand For.”By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God? ____D_____A. by planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.B. by turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.C. by removing God from his throneD. by corrupting man and woman created by GodPassage 3.But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to theeA. Identify the poem and the poet. ______________________________B. What does the word “this” refers to? ___the poetry_________________________C. What idea does this stanza express?A nice summer’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever. Shakespeare has a faith in the permanence of poetry2. The _Enlightenment__ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.4. Of all the 18th century novelists, __Henry Fielding_ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a“___comic epic in prose__,” and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.6. In writing plays the neo-classical writers used ___heroic couplet_____ instead of blank verse. They observed the three unities of time, place and action.9. The Talter and __The Spectator_ were Richard Steele and Joseph Addison’s chief contribution to English literature.10. Pamela is the first __epistolary_ novel in English literature.15. The more notable of the Gothic novels are __The Castle of Otranto__(1765) by Horace Walpole and __The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliff. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is so replete with bloodcurdling scenes and unatural feelings that it is justly called ___a novel of horrors__16. ___Samuel Johnson___ is the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman-----Dictionary of the English language, which had become the foundation of all subsequent English dictionaries.Passage one“ The boast of heraldry, the pomp of po wer,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”Questions:19. Identify the author and the title of the poem which this passage is taken.__Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_ _____Thomas Gray_____________20. What does the phrase “inevitable hour” mean? _______death____________21. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.The passage is about man’s inevitable death. No matter what family you are from, wha t power you have got, what beauty and wealth you have possessed, you should feel conceited or self-important. For sooner or later you will have to leave these material things behind; you cannot bring them all into the other world when you die. Since death awaits everyone and your glorious life leads you only to the grave, what is the use of fighting for all those material interests?Passage 2“Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of he universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter.”Questions:22. Identify the work and the author Jonathan Swift; Gulliver’s Travels___23. What is the tone of the author? _____Satirical______________________24. What does the author parody here?By presenting the Lilliputian’s exaggerated compliments to their king, Swift parodies absurdly an arrogant style of the Englishmen(or the Europeans) in their speeches to their God or their monarchs.25. Satire: Satire is generally considered as a literary form in which humor, exaggeration or ridicule is used to bring to the forefront an individual or societal vice, folly, abuse or shortcoming. Its purpose, ideally, although humorous and entertaining, is to shine a light on the subject and invoke change.28. Comment on the features of the neoclassical literature.①In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.②According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones. ③Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for almost every genre of literature. Prose should be precise, direct, smooth and flexible. Poetry should be lyrical, epical, didactic, satire or dramatic, and each class should be guided by its own principles. Drama should be written in the Heroic Couplets (iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines); the three unities of time, space and action should be strictly observed; regularity in construction should be and adhered to, and type characters rather than individuals should be represented. Besides the elegant poetic structure and diction, the neoclassical poetry was also noted for its seriousness and earnestness in tone and constant didacticism.④Mock epic, romance, satire and epigram were popular forms adopted by poets of the time.1.As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when __ Wordsworth _ and _ Coleridge published _ Lyrical Ballads and ended in 1832 when __ Walter Scott__ died.2. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English __imagination_____ against the neoclassical __reason____3. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains __four__ cantos, which is written in the _Spenserian stanza. It teems with all kinds of recognizable features of Romantic poetry.5. Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between the happy world of _ natural loveliness and human world of __ agony.6. Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the __ permanence of art and the _ transience___ of human passion.9. Walt Scott is considered as “the father of _the _historical novel____” which opens up to fiction the rich and lively realm of history.11. The main idea running through the dramatic poem Prometheus Unbound is that of __freedom_______.12. The Romantic period is an age of poetry. The major Romantic poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the Neoclassical literature, which as later regarded as ___poeticrevolution_____Passage OneWild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver;hear, O hear!13. Identify the poem and the poet. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind14. What is the “Wild Spirit”? It refers to the West Wind or “breath of Autumn’s being”15. What does the “Wild Spirit”destroy and preserve? It destroys things that are dead; it preserves new life represent new life or new birth.16. The stanza used in this ode was developed by the poet from the interlaced three-line units of the Italian __terzarima____, Shelley’s stanza consists of a set of four such tercets, closed by a couple rhyming with the middle line of the preceding tercet: __ ___.Passage TwoFor oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils17. Identify the poem and the poet.18. What is the recurrent central image in this poem?Daffodile19. Explain in a few words “that inward eye/Which is the bliss of solitude?The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind while he is solitude.。
英国文学复习提纲
题型模式选择题（ 2 分*15 道=30 分）作家作品匹配（ 1 分*20 道=20 分）名词解释（ 5 分*2 道=10 分）作品分析（三道题，25 分）论述作家区别（15 分）Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period 文艺复兴时期掌握要点：The Renaissance （文艺复兴）Humanism is the essence of Renaissance.The Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the measure of all things.Renaissanee humanists （文艺复兴时期的人文主义者）：Human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection. （question, explore enjoy. ）Knight Literature（骑士文学）Period： The Renaissance period,Themes：“Fierce wars and faithful loves ”Humansim（人文主义）Sonnet 十四行诗Shakespearean Sonnet: comprises three quatrain and final couplet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg Spenserian Sonnet： ababbabccdcdeeChristopher Marlowe 马洛The poineer of English DramaHis creation of Renaissance hero for English drama.Dr. Faustus: It celevrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness. Tamburlaine: Supreme desire for infinite power and authority.William Shakespeare 莎士比亚The spirit of pursuing happiness.Hamlet 哈姆雷特Othello 奥赛罗King Lear 李尔王Macbeth 麦克白All's Well That Ends 终成眷属Measure for Measure 一报还一报Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧与朱丽叶To Be or Not to Be”Francis Bacon 培根The first important English essayist.John DonneMetaphysical Poetry（玄学派）:Highly intellectual poetry marked by bold ingenious, conceits, incongrious, imagery complexity of thought frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness,or rigidtiy of expression.Themes: Love Death and Religion.John Milton Paradise Lost 失乐园Chapter 2 The Neoclassical PeriodNeoclassicism新古典主义）Classical tendency: artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman, put the stress or the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, vestrained emotion, accuracy, good, taste and decorum.Englihtenment （启蒙运动）（18也century）Rationality to thought and activities, called for a reference to order, reason, rules.John Bunyan 班扬（1660-1798）Pilgrim 'Progess 天路历程-The Vantiy Fair 名利场Alexander PopeAn Essay on Criticism 批评论Rape of the Lock 夺发记Daniel Defoe 笛福/ 迪佛Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记Jonathan SwiftGulliver ' Travels 格列佛游记分析Daniel Defoe 与Jonathan Swift 作品语言特点：Defoe:1,the spirit of time （时代精神）2,Sometimes short crisp and plain, sometimes long rambliing and leave reader impression of casual narration.Swift:1,exploration into human nature profound （人性探索，社会批判）2,“Proper words in proper places. ”Clear, simple, concrete diction, uncomplicated sentence structure.Henry FiedlingComic epic in proseTom Jones汤姆•琼雷Richard Brinsley Sheridan （查理•比•谢利丹）The School of Scandal 造谣学校Rivals 情敌Chapter 3 The Romantic Period 浪漫主义时期The Romantism1,Expressed a more or less negative forward the existing social 2,individual in the solitary state.3,Inner world of the human spiritGothlic n ove l（18 th-19 th）（哥特式小说）Early set in the medival age in a Catholic country.Principal Elements: V oilence horror and supernaturalWilliam Blake 威廉•布莱克Songs of innocence天真之歌Songs of exp erience经验之歌（赏析）：从主题思想，从修辞格（，从音律）William Wordsworth （华兹华斯）I wandered Lonely as a Cloud Composed upon Westminster Bridge The Soliary Reaper（赏析）Lake Poets （湖畔诗人）William WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeRobert SoutheyGeorge Gordon Byron 拜伦Byronic hero:A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble orgin usually one of rebellious, individuals against outworn social systems and conventionsDon JuanPercy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱Ode to the West Wind 西风颂（赏析）：诗眼：Destroyer and Preserver 生命的破坏与储存Winter: Darkness of society 黑暗社会Spring: Bright future and new social system 光明未来“If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind. ”“如果冬天来临，春天还会远么？”（赏析）John Keat 济慈Ode on a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂The Eve of St. Agnes圣亚尼节前夜Jane Austen 简•奥斯丁Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感Chapter 4 The Victorian Period （维多利亚时期，又称现实主义时期）In general ,truthfully represents the realtiy and spirit of the age. High-spirited vitality the down to earth earnestness. The good-matured humor and unbounded imagination are allunprecedented. 真实反映当时时代的现实和精神，体现高度活力和脚踏实地的精神，语言善意幽默，无羁无绊，令人产生空前的丰富联想Charles Dickens 狄更斯Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 A Tale of two cities 双城记The Bront? SistersWuthering Heights 呼啸山庄Jane Eyre 简•爱。
(完整word版)英国文学史复习资料大纲英语专业必考
一．作家作品连线1.Geoffrey Chaucer乔叟——The Canterbury Tales(坎特伯雷故事），The Book of The Duchess（公爵夫人之书）、The Parliament of Fowls（百鸟会议)The House of Fame（声誉之堂）、Troilus and Criseyde（特罗勒斯与克丽西德）2.William Shakespeare莎士比亚——Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, SonnetThe Merchant of Venice，Henry IV，Twelfth Night，King Lear，Macbeth 3.Francis Bacon培根——（Essays）Of Marriage and Single Life(轮婚姻和单身), Of Studies4.John Donne邓恩（Metaphysical poems玄学派诗人）-— Song and Sonnets （歌与十四行诗）, Holy Sonnets（圣十四行诗）5.John Milton 弥尔顿—— Paradise Lost(失乐园）、Paradise Regained（复乐园）Samson Agonistes（力士参孙）6.Daniel Defoe笛福——The Life and strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe（鲁滨孙漂流记)、Captain Singleton（辛格顿船长)、Moll Flanders（摩尔·弗兰德斯）A Journal of the Plague Year（大疫年日记）、Roxana （罗克萨娜）7.Jonathan Swift斯威夫特——Gulliver’s Travel s（格列佛游记）A Tale of a Tub (一只桶的故事)，A Modest Proposal（一个温和的建议）8.William Blake布莱克——Song of Innocence（天真之歌)，Song of experience（经验之歌）, Poetical Sketches(诗的素描), The Book of Thel（塞尔书)9.Robert Burns彭斯——Auld Lang Syne, A Red Red Rose，10.William Wordsworth华兹华斯——I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud11.Samuel Taylor Coleridge柯勒律治——Kubla Khan（忽必烈汗），BiographiaLiteria （文学传记）、Lyrical Ballads (抒情歌谣集)12.Jane Austen简·奥斯丁—- Pride and Prejudice二、术语解释1、Epic（史诗）： A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. It started in the 5th century, Beowulf was an important epic。
英国文学(我们老师给我们的考试大纲)
一、名词解释1、University witsa group of scholars during the Elizabethan Age who graduated fromeither Oxford or Cambridge.2、Three unitiesThree Unities(三一原则)：Three rules or absolutes of 16th and 17th century Italian and French drama, broadly adapted from Aristotle’s Poetics: the Unity of Time, which limits a play to a single day; the Unity of Place, which limits a play to a single location; and the Unity of Action, which limits a play to a single story line. 亚里士多德《诗学》3、EssayAn essay is a piece of prose writing, usually short, that deals with a subject in a limited way and expresses a particular point of view.The two general classification of essay are the informal essay and the formal essay.4、Comedy of manners (风尚喜剧，造谣学校)is a genre of play which satirizes the manners and affectations ofa social class.The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of manners (风俗喜剧). This play has been regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare.5、Graveyard school （墓园派）Graveyard School / Poets: A term applied to eighteenth-century poets who wrote meditative poems, usually set in a graveyard, on the theme of human mortality, in moods which range from elegiac pensiveness to profound gloom. The vogue resulted in one of the most widely known English poems, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a country churchyard”. The writing of graveyard poems spread from England to Continental literature in the second part of the century and also influenced some American poets6、Poets：Byronic heroesIt refers to a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.(P224) Who are men with fiery passions and unbending will and express the poet’s own ideal of freedom. These heroes rise against tyranny and injustice, but they are merely lone fighters striving for personal freedom and some individualistic ends.二、简答题（4个，20分）作家是谁，选自那个作品，main idea，2~3个问题押韵，韵式1、The faerie QueeneWritten by Edmund Spenser: the poet’s poet Spenserian Stanza 斯宾塞诗节(See P43)•前八行（抑扬格五音步iambic pentameter)+第九行（抑扬格六音步iambic hexameter/亚历山大诗行Alexandrine line）Ababbcbcc2、Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer's daySometime/ too hot/ the eye/ of hea/ven shines,And often/ is his/ gold com/plexion/ dimm'd;And eve/ry fair/ from fair/ sometime/ declines,By chance/ or na/ture's chan/ging course/ untrimm'dBut thy/ eter/nal sum/mer shall/ not fadeNor lose/ posse/ssion of /that fair/ thou ow’st;Nor shall/ Death brag/ thou wan/der'st in/ his shade,When in/ eter/nal lines/ to time/ thou growest:So long/ as men/ can breathe/ or eyes/ can see,So long/ lives this/ and this/ gives life/ to thee.夏日怎能与妳譬喻比拟妳的可爱温和夏日难及五月花蕾恶风吹袭落地夏日租约倏忽转瞬到期有时天眼高灼炎炎难耐更见乌云常蔽金色面容古今红颜难逃红颜色衰命运无常季候欺凌作弄妳的永恒夏日却将长存美貌红颜必也永世不减死神难夸妳为地府美人因妳芳名已成不朽诗篇除非人世已经灭绝无生此诗必将永传与汝永恒Analysis of Sonnet 181.Voice: eternity of love and poetry2.Sound:•i ambic pentameter•a bab cdcd efef gg3.Format: sonnet (not heroic couplet aabbccddeeffgg in TheCanterbury Tales)4.Stanza 1: You are beautiful.•S tanza 2: Beauty could not fight against time.•S tanza 3: Your beauty is eternal in my poem.•S tanza 4: Poetry is eternal.The poem starts with a flattering question to the beloved—"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The beloved is both "more lovely and more temperate" than a summer's day. The speaker lists some negative things about summer: it is short—"summer's lease hath all too short a date"—and sometimes the sun is too hot—"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines." However, the beloved has beauty that will last forever,unlike the fleeting beauty of a summer's day. By putting his love's beauty into the form of poetry, the poet is preserving it forever. "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." The lover's beauty will live on, through the poem which will last as long as it can be read.3、Childe Harold’s pilgrimage3. Childe Har old’s Pilgrimage《恰尔德·哈罗德游记》, the first two canto.ByronSpenserian stanza , 9-line stanza, ababbcbcc p226long poem with 4 cantosHarold’s travels in Europephilosophical and political viewssolitary, melancholy melancholia:忧郁症keen understanding strong love of freedomfirst by the mouth of Harold, then by himselfThe Main Idea of Harold(P227)(1)Portugal and Spain the delicious land, the poverty of the poorand the struggle of the Spaniards against the foreignaggression(2)Albania and Greece the fallen state of fair Greece; remind ofthe heroic past, strive for the liberty(3)The venom恶毒的话 and spite怨恨 of the high society；condemnsthe reaction glorifies the French Revolution(4)Sings of Italy and its people; exposure the reactionary rulers;ardent love of liberty and firm belief in the people’s finaltriumph4、Don Juan 《唐璜》p228 Byron•It was written in Italy during the years from 1818 to 1823.•It has 16,000 lines in 16 cantos and written in ottava rima （八行体）.•Each stanza contains 8 iambic pentameter lines.The rhyme scheme is ababaComments on Don Juan(P228)1.The story of the poem takes place in the later part of the 18th century.2.Don Juan is a Spanish youth of aristocratic birth.3.This long poem describes Don Juan’s vicissitudes(变迁) of life andadventures in many countries.4.The hero is made to participate in different historical events.Thus we can get a broad panorama（全景） of the social life of the time.5.The poem gives a satirical description of English ruling classesand social conditions.6.Byron did not finish the poem. He meant to make the hero take partin the French Revolution and die a heroic death.Childhood-love affair-abroad-Greek island-sold as a slave-capital of Turkey-in guise of a woman -camp of the Russian army -St. Petersburg -Empress Catherine -to England on a political mission5、Jane Eyre《简.爱》 Charlotte Bronte p311•“Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you thinkI am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear tohave my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?.......it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal --- as we are!”•Identify the author and the title of the novel.•Who is the speaker and whom is he/she talking to?•Summarize the speaker’s meaning.Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre《简.爱》The speaker is Jane Eyre and she is talking to Mr. Rochester.She feels hurt because Mrs. Rochester doesn’t treat her as an equal being.6、Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》p312Emily Brontë (1818—1848)•“He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period be bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say; but then my mistress had kissed him first, andI plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, tolook into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there– she was fated, sure to die.”•Identify the author and the title of the novel•Who is the narrator?•What does the passage describe?Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》It describes the meeting between Heathcliff and Catherine when Catherine is dying7、Break Break BreakTennyson’s Best-known Short Poems(1)“Break, Break, Break”“拍吧，拍吧，拍吧” P338sadness over the loss of a dear friend, combining the nature and his inner world（2）Crossing the Bar “穿过沙洲”The theme is that Tennyson expresses his optimistic attitude towards death when he is old.Break, break, break(P338)•Break, break, break, 碎了，碎了，碎了，•On the cold gray stones, O Sea!大海呀，拍碎在你灰冷的石岩！•And I would that my tongue could utter但愿我的舌端能道出•The thoughts that arise in me, 我内心涌起的思念。
英美文学选读考试大纲
英美文学选读考试大纲一、考试目的与要求本考试旨在评估学生对英美文学经典作品的理解和鉴赏能力，以及对文学理论、历史背景和文化语境的掌握程度。
考生应具备以下能力：1. 阅读并分析英美文学作品的能力。
2. 理解和评价文学作品中的主题、风格和技巧。
3. 对英美文学发展史有一个基本的了解。
4. 能够将文学作品与社会、历史背景联系起来进行综合分析。
二、考试内容1. 英国文学- 古代至文艺复兴时期：包括但不限于乔叟、莎士比亚的作品。
- 17世纪至18世纪：如约翰·弥尔顿、亚历山大·蒲柏、简·奥斯汀的作品。
- 19世纪：浪漫主义、维多利亚时期的作家，如华兹华斯、拜伦、狄更斯等。
- 20世纪至今：现代主义和后现代主义作家，如弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、乔治·奥威尔、多丽丝·莱辛等。
2. 美国文学- 殖民时期至独立战争：包括但不限于爱德华·泰勒、本杰明·富兰克林的作品。
- 19世纪：浪漫主义和现实主义作家，如爱默生、霍桑、梅尔维尔、马克·吐温等。
- 20世纪：现代主义和后现代主义作家，如菲茨杰拉德、海明威、福克纳、塞林格等。
- 当代文学：包括多种族、多文化背景下的作家，如托尼·莫里森、唐·德里罗等。
三、考试形式与题型1. 选择题：考察学生对文学作品的基本事实、作者、历史背景等的了解。
2. 简答题：要求学生对文学作品的主题、人物、情节等进行简要分析。
3. 论述题：要求学生综合运用文学理论知识，对文学作品进行深入分析和评价。
4. 作文题：根据给定的文学作品或文学现象，撰写一篇有观点、有分析、有论证的论文。
四、考试范围与重点1. 英国文学的重点包括但不限于：- 莎士比亚的戏剧和诗歌。
- 18世纪启蒙时期的文学作品。
- 19世纪的浪漫主义和现实主义作品。
- 20世纪现代主义和后现代主义文学。
2. 美国文学的重点包括但不限于：- 早期美国文学与美国独立精神的关系。
英国文学史复习大纲
Part 1 The Anglo—Saxon Period（449-1066）秧格鲁-撒克逊时期1.Historical BackgroundCelts 400B.C. Romans 50B.C.Anglo—Saxons 450A.D Norman Invasion 1066A.D.Roman empire从albion撤军，teutonic tribes(包括angles, Saxons,jutes)（条顿人or日耳曼人）陆续登陆此地2. Literature 1,pagan异教徒文学2 christian基督徒文学alliterative verse头韵诗Epic: Beowulf贝奥武甫（Denmark背景）（the hall heorot鹿庁，grendel:a monster half-human）1) Oral origin, recited in court, handed down in generations until finally it was recorded by certain poet.上下部分由pagan写，插入由christian写2) a mixture of history and legend.，england’s national epic民国史诗Part II The Anglo-Norman Period(1066-1350)秧格鲁-诺曼时期1.Historical BackgroundRoman conquest,接着是english conquest，最后是norman conquest。
The Norman Conquest in 1066Duke William of Normandy claimed himself William I, King of England.（the battle of hastings 希斯廷战役）Kings—Barons男爵—Knights, a feudal system of hierarchy统治集团was formed2.The languageUpper classes: French, Latin The common people: Old EnglishThree languages co-existed in England. French became the official language used by the king and the Norman lords; Latin became the principal tongue of church affairs and in universities; and Old English was spoken only by the common English people.3.The literatureRomance was a type of literature that was very popular in the Middle Ages. It is about the life and adventures undertaken by a knight.It reflected the spirit of chivalry骑士制度. The content of romance: love, chivalry and religion. It involves fighting, adventures.Subject matter:Geoffrey’s History杰弗里《史记》，riming chronicles押韵编年史，metricalverse格律诗体，doggerel verse打油诗体1)the Matter of France eg. Charlemagne and his peers查理曼大帝和他的骑士2)Matter of Greece and Rome eg Akexabder亚历山大大帝3)Matter of Britain tales having for their heroes Arthur and his knights of the Round Table3.main literatureSir Gawain and the green knight.高文爵士和绿衣骑士（arthur，gawain,green knight, morgain the fay-woman妖精摩根, the green girdle绿腰带）Part III Geoffrey Chaucer (1340—1400)杰弗里.乔叟时期1.Historical BackgroundHe was living at the same time as the writer of Sir Gawain.In 1350 AD, 100 Years' War between England and France.The English won, they controlled large French territory领土. The Henry VI lost it all. He is father of English poetryWar of the Roses 1455-1485 AD2.What's middle ages like?1). The medieval society: hierarchy 等级制度social system.2). Another important thing in the medieval society is Christianity基督God-centered thinking, mind ideology思想体系3.Life and work of ChaucerChaucer lived between (1340-1400). His life is closely connected with the King and the royal family. Chaucer is working in a royal family as a page小侍臣. He married the sister of Gaunt's wife. He became a government official.He is very much exposed to the influence of Italy of the culture. E. G. Dante但丁, Patriarch,主教Boccaccio-the Decameron薄伽丘著《十日谈》,Chaucer chose the metrical form which laid the foundation of the English tonico-syllabic verse.乔叟第一次在英国用韵脚韵律诗形式来创作诗歌，开创了英国文学以重音-音节为基础的格律诗先河。
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苏州科技学院外国语学院英国文学史课程考试大纲一、课程性质与特点英国文学史为“英语”和“英语（师范）”专业任意选修课，属于考查课，共24学时，1.5学分。
本课程涵盖英国文学史上从中古英语时期、中世纪、文艺复兴、17世纪文学、18世纪文学、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义、后现代主义至当代各个时期重要的文学思潮、流派及其发生的社会、文化、哲学背景以及各个时期重要作家的代表性作品。
本课程所讲授的知识是英语专业本科生知识结构不可或缺的一部分，是英语专业学生人文素养必要的组成成分，也是英语专业八级考试“人文知识”部分考核的内容之一。
鉴于本课程学时短，内容多，本课程的特点是以史为经，以作家作品为纬，详讲文艺复兴、18世纪文学、浪漫主义、现实主义部分，略讲其它部分。
二、课程目标与基本要求学生在学习本课程后应该对英国文学史上中古英语时期、中世纪、文艺复兴、17世纪文学、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义至当代各个时期重要的文学思潮、流派及其发生的社会、文化、哲学背景以及各个时期重要作家的代表性作品有个宏观的了解，能解释相关的名词，熟悉各个时期的主要特点和重要作家及其重要作品，并能结合文学的外在与内在因素对文学作品做出初步评论。
三、教材及主要参考书教材：刘炳善：《英国文学简史》（新增订本）(A Short History of English Literature (Newly revised & enlarged edition)(“十一五”国家级规划教材).郑州：河南人民出版社，2008.主要参考书：刘意青、刘炅：《简明英国文学史》（A Brief History of English Literature---- from the Old English period to 1990s）.北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2008.四、考核内容与考核目标Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureChapter 1 The Making of EnglandI.The Britons : a tribe of Celts, the early inhabitants in the Island,from which (Britons) Britain ( i.e. Land of Britons) got its name.（识记，重点）II.The Roman Conquest : In 55 B.C. Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar, the Roman conqueror. The Roman conquest lasted for about400 years (to AD 410). Road systems in London were built. （识记，重点）III.The English Conquest : Britain invaded by three tribes (pirates) from North Europe: The Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Seven kingdoms were established----then combined into a united kingdom called England (the land of Angles)--- the three tribes mixed into one people called English or the Angles, and the three dialects grew into one single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. （识记，重点）IV.The Social Condition of The Anglo-Saxons (识记，一般)V.Anglo-Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence: The Anglo-Saxons were heathen people, believing in old mythology in North Europe.They were Christianized in the 7th century. （识记，次重点）Chapter 2 BeowulfI.Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Beowulf (a poem of more than 3000 lines) isthe national epic of the English people. （识记，重点）II.The Story (理解，一般)III.Analysis of its Content(理解，一般)IV.Features （应用，重点）1)the use of alliteration ( certain accented words in a line begin with thesame consonants;2)the use of metaphors/kennings (e.g. “Ring-giver”for king , or“whale’s road” for sea)3)the use of understatements (e.g. “not troublesome” for very welcome,“need not praise” for a right to condemn)Chapter 3 Feudal England1）The Norman ConquestI.The Danish Invasion (识记，一般)II.The Norman Conquest（1）T he French-speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. William was later crowned as King of England.（识记，次重点）（2）T he Norman Conquest marked the establishment of feudalism in England. （识记，次重点）（3）T he influence of Norman Conquest on the English language.（应用，重点）2) Feudal England (skip)4)The RomanceI. The content of the Romance(1)The most prevailing kind of literature in Feudal England was theromance. （识记，重点）(2)The essence of the Romances id chivalry. （识记，次重点）II. The Romance Cycle(1)Matters of Britain (King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table,the culmination of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight); （理解，重点）(2)Matters of France; (识记，一般)(3)Matters of Rome. (识记，一般)Chapter 4 Langland（1）W illiam Langland: author of Piers the Plowman;（2）P iers the Plowman is one of the greatest of English poems, written in the form of a dream vision,;（3）d epicting the feudal England by allegory and symbolism. （识记，重点）Chapter 5 The English Ballads(1)definition of Ballad （应用，重点）(2)The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad.(识记，一般)(3)The Robin Hood Ballads （理解，重点）Chapter 6 Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)(1) father/founder of English poetry(2) major works: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales（识记，重点）(3) The Canterbury Tales: （应用，重点）A. Dramatic structure: a framed story (definition); (识记，一般)B. realistic presentation of characters (e.g. Wife of Bath) andcontemporary life; (识记，一般)C. Heroic couple (definition), which is Chaucer’s chief contribution tothe metric scheme of the English poetry; （理解，重点）D. He used London dialect (instead of Latin or French) as to writepoetry, thus making English Language of literature. （识记，重点）Part Two: The English RenaissanceChapter 1 Old English in TransitionI. The New Monarchy(1) Hundred Years War with France (1337-1453) (识记，一般)(2) The War of the Roses (1455-1485) (识记，一般)(3) Tudor Dynasty , a centralized monarchy (to meet the needs of therising bourgeoisie(识记，一般)II. The Reformation(1) Henry VIII declared the break with Rome, and established Protestantism; (识记，一般)III. The English Bible(1)The first complete English Bible was translated by John Wycliffe(1324?-1384), the morning star of the Reformation,” and hisfollowers. （识记，重点）(2)King James Bible, the Authorized Version. （识记，重点）V.The Enclosure Movement (识记，一般)VI.The Commercial Expansion (识记，一般)VII.The War with Spain(1)the rout of the Spanish fleet “ Armada” (Invincible)（识记，次重点）(2)The English Bourgeoisie came to the fore in the arena of history.(识记，一般)VII．The Renaissance and Humanism(1)definition of The Renaissance（应用，重点）(2)Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. （识记，重点）Chapter 2 More(1)Thomas More (1478-1535): the greatest of the English humanists,author of Utopia. （识记，重点）(2)Utopia（理解，重点）Chapter 3 The Flowering of English LiteratureI. The Flowering of English Literature （Skip）II. Sidney and Raleigh(1) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1686): well-known as a poet and a critic of poetry. (识记，一般)(2) His Apology for Poetry is one of the earliest English literary essays. （理解，次重点）III. Edmund Spencer (1552-1599)(1) Known as “The Poet’s Poet”, held a position as a model of poeticalart among the Renaissance English poets. （识记，重点）(2) The Faerie Queene （理解，重点）(3) The Spenserian Stanza （理解，重点）IV. John Lyly (1554?-1606) (skip)V. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)(1) founder of English materialist philosophy; (识记，次重点）(2) founder of modern science in England (Knowledge is power.) （识记，重点）(3) two works Advancement of Learning and New Instrument （putforward “Inductive method of reasoning”）（识记，重点）(4) also famous for his Essays. （理解，重点）Chapter 4 DramaI. The Miracle Play(1) The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its drama. （识记，重点）(2) English drama had roots reaching back to the miracle plays of the Middle Ages. （识记，一般）(3) definition of miracle plays (Based on Bible stories) （理解，次重点）II. The Morality Play(1) a little later than miracle plays. （理解，重点）(2) definition (conflict of good and evil with allegorical personages, suchas Mercy, Peace, Hate, Folly and so on.) （理解，次重点）III. The Interlude（识记，一般）IV. The Classical Drama（识记，一般）Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays were the forms of drama prevailing until the reign of Elizabeth and paved the way for the flourishing of drama. （识记，次重点）V. The London TheatreIn the 16th century, London became the center of English drama. （识记，一般）VI．The Audience（识记，一般）VII. The PlaywrightsThe University Wits (Lyly, Peele, Marlowe, Greene, Lodge and Nash) （识记，次重点）Chapter 5 Marlowe (1564-1593)I. The most gifted of the “university wits” was Christopher Marlowe. （识记，重点）II. Marlowe’s best includes three of his plays: Tamburlaine(1587); The Jew of Malta (1592); Doctor Faustus（识记，重点）III. Doctor Faustus（理解，重点）IV. Social significance of Marlowe’s Plays（理解，重点）V. Marlowe’s literary achievementMarlowe first made blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the principal instrument of English drama. （识记，重点）Chapter 6 Shakespeare (1564-1616)I. LifeWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon, a little town in Warwickshire. All through his life he wrote 37 (?39) plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. He was acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance.（识记，重点）II. A Chronological list of Shakespeare’s plays（识记，一般）III. Periods of his dramatic composition(1)The 1st period: Historical plays (his first theatrical successwas his historical plays Henry VI) and four comedies. （识记，一般）(2)The 2nd period: great comedies（识记，一般）(3)The 3rd period: great tragedies and dark comedies（识记，一般）(4)4th period: romances or reconciliation plays（识记，一般）IV. The Great Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; Twelfth Night（应用，重点）V. The Mature Histories(1) Henry IV（识记，一般）(2)The Image of Henry V: the symbol of Shakespeare’s ideal kingship. （识记，一般）(3) The image of Sir John Falstaff（理解，重点）VI. The Great Tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth（应用，重点）VII. Hamlet（应用，重点）（1）The story（识记，一般）(2)The character of Hamlet (hesitant humanist) （理解，重点）(3) The melancholy of Hamlet（理解，重点）VIII. The Later Comedies（识记，一般）IX. The Poems(1) Venus and Adonis（识记，一般）(2) The Rape of Lucrece（识记，一般）(3) sonnets (154, definition) （理解，重点）X. Features of Shakespeare’s Drama（理解，次重点）Chapter 7 Ben Jonson (1572-1637Mainly remembered for his comedies: Everyman in his Humour; Volpone, or The Fox; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair（识记，一般）Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionChapter 1 The English Revolution and the Restoration (skip)Chapter 2 John Milton (1608-1674)I. Life and work(1) Areopagitica: appealing for the freedom of press. （识记，重点）(2) three epics: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes（识记，重点）II. Paradise Lost(1) The story（识记，一般）(2)Theme and characterization（理解，次重点）(3) The Image of Satan（理解，重点）III. Samson Agonistes（理解，次重点）IV. Brief summary （理解，次重点）Chapter 3 John Bunyan (1628-1688)(1)The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory. （识记，重点）(2)Content of The Pilgrim’s Progress（理解，重点）Chapter 4 Metaphysical poets and Cavalier poets(1)definition of “Metaphysical poetry”（理解，重点）(2)John Donne was the founder of the Metaphysical School. （识记，重点）(3)Other members of the metaphysical school: George Herbert(1593-1633); Andrew Marvell (1621-1678); Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) （识记，一般）Chapter 5 Some prose writers (Skip)Chapter 6 Restoration LiteratureI. Restoration Comedies (skip)II. John Dryden (1631-1700)(1)The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration period(1660-1688), poet, playwright, and critic. （识记，重点）(2)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy established his position as the leadingcritic of the day. （识记，次重点）(3)He was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in thenext century. （识记，一般）Part Four The Eighteenth CenturyChapter 1 The Enlightenment and Classicism in English LiteratureI. The Enlightenment and the 18th century England(1) After the “Glorious Revolution”of 1688, England became aconstitutional monarchy and power passed form the King to the Parliament and the cabinet ministers. （识记，次重点）(2) The Enlightenment in Europe（理解，重点）(3) The English Enlighteners: The representatives of the Enlightenment inEnglish Literature were Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, the essayists, and Alexander Pope, the poet. （识记，重点）II. (Neo-)Classicism （理解，重点）Chapter 2 Addison and Steele1. Richard Steele (1672-1729) and The Tatler（识记，重点）2. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and The Spectator（识记，重点）3. In the hands of Addison and Steele, the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre. Using it as a form a character sketching and story-telling, they ushered in the dawn of modern English novel.（识记，次重点）Chapter 3 PopeI. Life: Alexander Pope (1688-1774) is the most important poet in the first half of the 18th century. （识记，重点）II.Work1. Essay on Criticism(1711) (some proverbial maxims: For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. To err is human, to forgive, divine. A little learning is a dangerous thing.) （识记，重点）2. The Rape of the Lock (1714) （识记，一般）3. Pope’s Homer: He translated the entire Iliad and Half of the Odyssey. （识记，一般）4. Pope’s Shakespeare: He was an editor of Shakespeare’s plays.（识记，一般）5. The Dunciad (1728-1742) （识记，一般）6. Essay on Man (1732-1734) （识记，一般）III. Workmanship and limitationPope is the most important representative of the English classical poetry and was at his best in satire and epigram. （识记，重点）Chapter 4 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)1. His works:(1) A Tale of a Tub : a satire upon all religious sects. （识记，次重点）(2) The Battle of Books: an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time. （识记，次重点）(3) Bickerstaff Almanac （识记，一般）(4) Gulliver’s Travels: a political satire（理解，重点）2.His style: 1）simple, clear and vigorous language (“ Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style); 2）master of satire and irony（识记，次重点）Chapter 5 Defoe and the Rise of the English NovelI. The Rise of the English Novel: The modern English novel in the 18th century.（识记，重点）Important novelists: Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne. （识记，次重点）II. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)(1)His works: Robinson Crusoe(1719);Captain Singleton(1720);Moll Flanders (1722); Colonel Jacque (1722) （识记，次重点）(2)Robinson Crusoe: 1) the story; 2) the character of Robinson Crusoe(the representative of the rising bourgeoisie, practical and exact, religious, mindful of profit, colonizer) （理解，重点）Chapter Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)His Novel: Pamela(, or, Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents):epistolary novel (novel of letters) （理解，重点）Chapter 7 Henry Fielding （1707-1754）1.Father of the English novel（识记，重点）2. Joseph Andrews（识记，一般）3. Jonathan Wild (exposing the English bourgeois society and mocking itspolitical system) （识记，一般）4. (The History of )Tom Jones, (A Foundling)1)The Story（识记，一般）2)Characterization（识记，一般）5. Fielding as the founder of the English realist novels（理解，重点）6. Some features of Fielding’s novels. （应用，重点）Chapter 8 Smollett and SterneI. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)(1) Roderick Random (1748): first important work by Smollett. It is apicaresque novel (i.e. a novel of travels andadventures). （识记，重点）(2)Humphry Clinker (1771): the best and pleasantest of Smollett’s novels(also a picaresque novle narrated in the form ofletters.) （识记，一般）II. Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)1. (The Life and Opinions of) Trstram Shandy(1760-1767): a plotless,formless novel full of digressions, following“stream of consciousness”.（理解，重点）2. A Sentimental Journey(giving the name of the School of“sentimentalism”).（识记，重点）3. Sterne is remembered as a representative of sentimentalism in the 18thcentury. （识记，重点）Chapter 9 18th Century Drama and Sheridan1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)1) The Rivals( Mrs. Malaprop, thus giving the te rm “malapropism”,which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.)（识记，次重点）2) The School for Scandal: a great “ comedy of manners”, a satire ofEnglish high society. （理解，次重点）Chapter 10 JohnsonSamuel Johnson (1709-1784): mainly remembered for his Dictionary.（识记，重点）Chapter 11 Goldsmith (1730-1774)I. A representative of sentimentalists（识记，重点）II. Work:1. poems: The Traveler and The Deserted Village（识记，次重点）2. Novel: The Vicar of Wakefield ( Goldsmith’s masterpiece, for which hewas acknowledged to be one of the representativesof English sentimentalism.) （识记，重点）3. Comedies:1) The Good-natured man (1768), a comedy of character; （识记，一般）2) She stoops to conquer (1773), a comedy of manners; （识记，一般）4. Essays: The Citizens of the World (1762), a collection of essays（识记，一般）Chapter 12 GibbonEdward Gibbon (1737-1794): author of The Decline and Fall of theRoman Empire（识记，重点）Chapter 13 Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism in PoetryI. Sentimentalism in English poetry: Thomas Gray (1716-1771) famousfor his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,which is a model of sentimental poetry, and fromwhich Gray was called a poet of “GraveyardSchool”. （识记，重点）II. Pre-RomanticismChapter 14 William Blake1) Songs of Innocence（理解，重点）2) Songs of Experience（理解，重点）3) T he Marriage of Heaven and Hell（识记，一般）4) His position in English poetry （识记，一般）Chapter 15 Robert Burns1. A poet of the peasants; （识记，重点）2. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; songs written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects (some examples: A Red, Red Rose; My Heart’s in the Highlands. Auld Lang Syne) （识记，重点）Part Five: Romanticism in EnglandChapter 1 The Romantic Period1. Romanticism (definition and characteristics)（应用，重点）2. Lake poets (or Lakers, or escapist romanticists): Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey（识记，重点）3. Active romanticists: Byron, Shelley and Keats. （识记，重点）4. Romantic prose was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey; （识记，一般）5. The only great novelist in this period was Walter Scott. （识记，重点）Chapter 2 William Wordsworth (1770-1850)1. In 1798, Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published Lyrical Ballads, which marked the break with the conventional poetic tradition of the 18th century Neo-classism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England. （识记，重点）2. In the preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry. ( “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”) （识记，次重点）3. Some of his short lyrics: Lines Written in Early Spring; To the Cuckoo;I wandered lonely as a Cloud; My Heart Leaps Up; Intimations of Immortality; Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby; The Solitary Reaper. （识记，次重点）Chapter 3 Coleridge and SoutheyI. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)Poems: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan（识记，重点）II. Robert Southey (1774-1843) : one of the Lakers. （识记，一般）Chapter 4 George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)1. Childe Harold Pilgrimage( written in Spenserian stanza a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcbcc)（理解，重点）2. Don Juan: his masterpiece, written in “ottva rima”, each stanzacontaining 8 iambic pentameter lines rhymed abababcc)（理解，重点）3. Byronic Hero (definition) （理解，重点）Chapter 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1882)1. Queen Mab: Shelley’s first long poem of importance, in the form of afairy-tale dream, presenting his views on philosophy, religion, morality and social problems. （理解，重点）2. The Revolt of Islam (expressing his political and aesthetic ideas) （识记，重点）3. Prometheus Unbound: Shelley’s masterpiece, a lyrical drama in 4 acts,symbolizing man’s struggle against tyranny and oppression.（理解，重点）4. The Masque of Anarchy(criticizing “free competition”)（识记，次重点）5. Song to the Men of England (calling on the working class to rise againstthe ruling oppressors) （识记，次重点）6. Lyrics on Nature and Love: Ode to the West Wind(“If Winter comes,Can spring be far behind?”); One Word is Too Often Profaned（识记，次重点）7. In Defence of Poetry (Poetry is the indispensable agent of civilization.“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, and poetry can play a very important part in the spiritual life of society.) （识记，次重点）Chapter 6 John Keats (1795-1821)1. Five Long Poems : Endymion（识记，次重点）; Isabella（识记，一般）;The Eve of St. Agnes; （识记，一般）Lamia; Hyperion（识记，一般）2. Short Poems: Ode on a Grecian Urn (“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”)（识记，重点）; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (a sonnet) （识记，次重点）; On the Grasshopper and the Cricket（识记，次重点）;Ode to Autumn; （识记，一般）Ode on Melancholy（识记，一般）; Ode to a Nightingale（识记，次重点）Chapter 7 Charles Lamb (1775-1834)1. The Essays of Elia(very humorous) （识记，一般）2.Tales from Shakespeare (collaboration with Mary Lamb) （识记，次重点）Chapter 8 Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt1. William Hazlitt: essayist, author of Table Talk; The Plain Speaker; Sketches and Essays（识记，一般）2. Henry James Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), essayist（识记，一般）Chapter 9 De Quincey1. Thomas De Qunicey (1785-1859), essayist, critic, author of The Confession of an English Opium- Eater. （识记，一般）Chapter 10 Walter Scott1. Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the historical novel. （识记，次重点）2. His Historical Novels1) Rob Roy (Red Robert, about 1715 uprising) （识记，一般）2) Ivanhoe (about Norman Conquest) （识记，次重点）3) features of his historical novels. （理解，次重点）Part Six: English Critical RealismChapter 1 The Rise of Critical Realism in England1. English Critical Realism1) definition（应用，重点）2) The greatest English realist of the 19th century is Charles Dickens. （识记，重点）Chapter 2 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)1.The First Period (1836-1841)1) The Pickwick Papers（理解，次重点）2) Oliver Twist（理解，重点）3) Nicholas Nickleby（识记，一般）4) The Old Curiosity Shop（识记，一般）2. The Second Period (1842-1850)1) Dombey and Son（识记，一般）2) David Copperfield（理解，重点）3. The Third Period (1851-1870)1) Bleak House（识记，一般）2) Hard Times（识记，一般）3) Little Dorrit（识记，一般）4) A Tale of Two Cities（理解，重点）5) Great Expectations（识记，一般）4.Dickens : Man and Writer（理解，重点）Chapter 3 Thackeray1. William Thackeray (1811-1863): a representative of critical realism. （识记，重点）2. The Snobs of England, his first literary success, a satirical description of the different strata of the ruling class. （识记，一般）3. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Thackeray’s masterpiece, the peak of his literary career. （理解，重点）Chapter 4 Some Women Novelists1. Jane Austen (1775-1817)1) Sense and Sensibility（识记，重点）2) Pride and Prejudice（理解，重点）3) Emma（识记，次重点）4) Persuasion（识记，次重点）5) Mansfield Park（识记，次重点）2. The Brontë Sisters1) Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855): Jane Eyre (the image of Jane Eyre) （应用，重点）2) Emily Brontë(1818-1848): Wuthering Heights ( the image of Heathcliff) （应用，重点）3) Anne Brontë(1820-1849) （识记，一般）3. Mrs Gaskell ( Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell) (1810-1865): Mary Barton (,a Tale of Manchester): a realistic novel giving a picture of the class struggle in the period of Chartism. （识记，一般）4. George Eliot (1819-1880):1) Adam Bede: a novel of moral conflicts, showing the contest of personal desires, passion, temperament, human weaknesses and the claims of moral duty. （理解，次重点）2) The Mill on the Floss（识记，次重点）3) Silas Marner（识记，次重点）4) The novels of George Eliot mark the beginning of a new stage in the development of English critical realism. Her characters are not grotesque types, but just common men and women. （识记，一般）Part Seven: Prose-writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th CenturyChapter 1 Carlyle1. The Mid and late 19th century is sometimes called the Victorian Age because of the reign of Queen Victoria during 1837-1901. （识记，次重点）2. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)1)Sartor Resartus(meaning “the tailor retailored”or “the tailor reclothed”) （识记，一般）2) The French Revolution（识记，一般）3) Heros and Hero-Worship ( “ The History of the World is the Biogarphy of Great Men.”) （理解，重点）4) Past and Present（识记，一般）Chapter 2 Ruskin and Some other Prose-Writers1. John Ruskin (1819-1900): author of Sesame and Lilies; Modern Painters（识记，一般）2. Mathew Arnold (1822-1888)1) Literary Criticism: Essays in Criticism; Essays in Criticism, Second Series（理解，次重点）2) Social Criticism: Culture and Anarchy ( representative work). （理解，重点）3) Dover Beach(Arnold’s masterpiece, a poem expressing disappointment with modern civilization) （识记，重点）3. Thomas Babington Macaulay: Prose stylist, author of History of England, his masterpiece. （识记，一般）Chapter 3 Tennyson1. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The most important poet of the Victorian Age. （识记，重点）2. In Memoriam(in memory of A.H. Hallam, e.g. “Break,Break, Break”)（识记，重点）3. The Idylls of the King（识记，一般）Chapter 4 The Brownings1. Robert Browning: His principal achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry a new form, the “dramatic monologue (e.g. My Last Duchess). （识记，重点）2. Mrs Browning (Elizabeth Barrett): Sonnets from the Portuguese（识记，一般）Chapter 5 The Rossettis and Swinburne1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): a founder of “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”. His best known poem is perhaps The Blessed Damozel. （识记，一般）2. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) （识记，一般）3. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) : author of Rubaiyat（识记，次重点）4. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909): author of poems and Ballads. His poems, together with those of Rossetti and others, foreshadowed the literary trend of decadence and “art for art’s sake’, represented by Oscar Wilde in the 1890s. （识记，次重点）Chapter 6 William Morris (1834-1896)1. A Dream of John Ball and News from Nowhere are the two most important of Morris’s prose works. Both are in the form of dreams, the first of the past and the second of the future. （识记，次重点）2. News from Nowhere: called “the crown and climax of his whole work”, describing a dream of the future classes society. （理解，重点）Chapter 7 Literary Trends at the End of the Century1. Naturalism1) definition（理解，重点）2) representatives (George Gissing and Thomas Hardy) （识记，次重点）2. Neo-Romanticism1) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was the representative ofneo-Romanticism (inventing exciting adventures and fascinating romances) in English Literature. （识记，次重点）2) Treasure Island is his best-known work. （识记，重点）3) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde（识记，次重点）3. Aestheticism1. definition (Art should serve no religious, moral, social or any anther purposes except itself) （理解，重点）2. Principle: Art for art’s sake. （识记，重点）3. The two most important representatives of aestheticism in English literature are Walter Pater(1839-1894) and Oscar Wilde(1856-1900). （识记，重点）4. Oscar Wilde: a spokesman for the aesthetic movement in England. （识记，重点）1) Two collections of Fairy tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales(1888) （识记，次重点）; A House of Pomegranates (1891); （识记，一般）2) A collection of short story: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories; （识记，一般）3) A series of critical essays: Intentions (1891); （识记，一般）4) His only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) （识记，次重点）5) Four comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan(1893); A Woman of NoImportance (1894); An Ideal Husband (1895); The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) （识记，重点）6) One tragedy: Salomé（识记，重点）Part Eight Twentieth Century English LiteratureChapter 1 The New Century: Social and Historical Background (skip)Chapter 2 English Novel of Early 20th Century1. The Realist:1) Samuel Butler (1835-1902): Erewhon(1872); Erewhon Revisited (1901); The Way of All Flesh (1903, his masterpiece) （识记，一般）2) Goerge Meridith: T he Egoist（识记，一般）3) H(erbert).G(eorge). Wells: realistic novels, scientific fantasies, discussion novels（识记，一般）4) Thomas Hardy (to be discusses in detail)5) John Galsworthy (to be discusses in detail)2. Other important novelists of the early 20th century1) Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936): called “the bard of imperialism”. His works: Kim (1901); The Jungle Book (1894); The Second Jungle Book (1895) （识记，次重点）2) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)The Old Wives’ Tales（识记，一般）3) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): a Pole by birth, starting Learning English at his twenties. His works; Heart of Darkness; Lord Kim; Nostromo（识记，重点）3. Henry James (1843-1916)1)Born and educated in the U.S.as an American, but was naturalized asa British subject in 1915. He was the forerunner of the “Stream ofconsciousness” literature.（识记，重点）2)His representative works: Daisy Miller (1879); The Portrait of a Lady(1881); The Wings of the Dove (1902); The Ambassador (1903); The Golden Bow l (19040（识记，重点）4. Katharine Mansfield (1888-1923): Born in New Zealand, famous woman writer of short stories. （识记，一般）Chapter 3 Hardy。