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
Lake Poets
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” Mrs. Bennet
Walter Scott Historical Novels
Byron: Don Juan comic epic John Keats ode quotation
5.Victorian Literature
Critical Realism
Charlotte Bronté: Jane Eyre the life of the middle---class working women, particularly governesses. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions
Charles Dickens: a mingling of humor and pathos Oliver Twist exposure of the bitter conditions of the workhouse
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Robert Browning My Last Duchess use of the dramatic monologue
Alfred Tennyson: Crossing the Bar; his fearlessness towards death
6.Modernism:
theoretical base : irrational philosophy theory of psycho-analysis
The rise of the irrational philosophy and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles; “Wessex” novels; nostalgic; novels of character and environment; man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic
D. H. Lawrence: the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic
criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on
human nature.
modern drama: A technical revolution did not occur in the field of drama as it did in poetry and fiction.
George Bernard Shaw Realism
James Joyce Ulysses stream of consciousness
John Galsworthy: conventional Forsyte novels
III.
Allegory; Ballad; Byronic Hero; Sonnet
IV.
To be, or not to be trouble
Sonnet 18 eternal lines
V.
William Blake & two collections of lyrics & comparison Enlightenment & the three stages of the Enlightenment。