2018.12+英国文学史复习大纲

Review for British Literature Final Exam.

Our brief review for Bri.Liter. will follow the following outline:

I.

William Langland---Piers the Plowman

Edmund Spenser--- The Faerie Queen

Thomas Malory---Le Morte D’Arthur

Thomas More---Utopia

Francis Bacon---- Of Marriage and Single Life; The New Instrument

John Donne---- The Flea; Death, Be Not Proud

Alfred Tennyson---- Crossing the Bar; In Memorian

Alexander Pope---An Essay on Criticism

William Shakespeare---King Lear

Christopher Marlowe--- The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus

Jonathan Swift---- A Modest Proposal; The Battle of Books, Gulliver’s Travels

Robert Burns---- My Heart’s in the Highland; A Red, Red Rose

William Wordsworth---- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; The Solitary Reaper; My Heart Leaps Up; She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

Lord Byron--- The Isles of Greece; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage;

Percy Shelley---- Ode to the West Wind; Ozymandias

John Keats---- To Autumn; Ode on a Grecian Urn

Emily Bronte--- Wuthering Heights

Walter Scott----- Waverley; Ivanhoe;

Oliver Goldsmith---- The Vicar of Wakefield

Henry Fielding---- Tom Jones

W. M. Thackeray---- Vanity Fair

John Galsworthy----- The Forsyte Saga

Oscar Wilde----- The Picture of Dorian Gray

D.H. Lawrence ------Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow;

Bernard Shaw---- Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Thomas Hardy ------ The Mayor of Casterbridge; Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Jane Austen---- Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice

R. B. Sheridan---- The School for Scandal; The Rivals

Charles Dickens ----A Tale of Two Cities; David Copperfield

II.

1.Before Renaissance

Conquests: Anglo-Saxons Normans

Alfred the Great a prose writer Anglo-Saxon period

Beowulf: a hero origin

Geoffrey Chaucer: literary background The Canterbury Tales significance Romance: the most prevailing kind of literature in medieval England; loyalty to king and lord Norman Conquest three languages

Thomas More Utopia forerunner of modern socialist thought

2.Renaissance

Humanism

Francis bacon：the foundation for modern science

17th C. Literature: different schools

John Milton: a real revolutionary, a master poet and a great prose writer Paradise Lost The freedom of the will “the man of thought”

John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress

3.Enlightenment Movement Rationalism

Neoclassicism

Alexander Pope: A representative writer of the neo-classical school An Essay on Criticism 18th century a new literary form--- the modern English novel, features

Robinson Crusoe the rising bourgeoisie

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels; four trips; the Houyhnhnms; Yahoo; a typical feature of Swifts writings; Bitter satire

Henry Fielding：Father of the English Novel；Tom Jones；comic epic in prose; the third-person narration

William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; Childhood

R. B. Sheridan The Rivals The School for Scandal morality is the constant theme

4.English Romanticism

William Wordsworth: poetic theory; short poems

Thomas Gray The Graveyard School Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard