简明英国文学史

　　这部《简明英国文学史》教材是应外语教学与研究出版社之邀，为广大青年学子，特别是那些需要参加外国文学类考试的学生编写的。通观目前国内书市上已有的各种英国文学史、文学选读及文学词典，用英文写的简明版英国文学史并不多见，最具代表性的要算河南大学刘炳善教授于1981年出版的那一部。刘炳善教授是业内非常受尊敬的老先生，治学严谨，他编写的文学史直到今天在材料翔实、评介简明和体例清晰方面仍然是值得称道的。然而，毕竟二十多年过去了。随着文学创作的发展和新文学理论的出现，国际上对文学作品和作家的研讨都有了创新，加之我国改革开放后吸收了不少过去被我们忽视，甚至排斥的批评观念和理论，这样，编写一部新的《简明英国文学史》的任务就被提到了日程上来。编者在受命后，参照了过去的一些教材，拟订了自己的编写和选材原则。经过了近两年的努力，编者在日常繁忙的教学和科研任务中见缝插针，终于完成了这项有意义的工作。在这部教材即将出版并投入使用之际，我们想就编写的想法和使用方法做一些介绍，仅供读者参考。

暂缺《简明英国文学史》作者简介

PartⅠ Old and Middle English Periods （450-1485）
Chapter 1 Old English Period and Beowulf
Ⅰ. Old English Period
Ⅱ. Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Beowulf
Chapter 2 Middle English Period and Chaucer
Ⅰ. Middle English Period
Ⅱ. Geoffrey Chaucer
PartⅡ English Renaissance and Shakespeare （1485-1616）
Chapter 3 The English Renaissance Literature
Ⅰ. Introduction of the Period
Ⅱ. Ten Renaissance Writers
Chapter4 William Shakespeare
Ⅰ. Shakespeares Life and Achievements
Ⅱ. Discussions of Shakespeares Major Works
Part Ⅲ The Seventeenth Century （1616-1688）
Chapter 5 The Bourgeois Revolution and Milton
Ⅰ. Background Knowledge
Ⅱ. John Milton
Chapter 6 The Metaphysical Poets and the Restoration Drama
Ⅰ. The Metaphysical Poets
Ⅱ. The Restoration Drama
Chapter 7 Dryden and Bunyan
Ⅰ. John Dryden
Ⅱ. John Bunyan
Part Ⅳ The Eighteenth Century （1688-1780）
Chapter 8 The Age of Classicism
Ⅰ. Background Knowledge of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
Ⅱ. Discussions of the Chief Representatives
Chapter 9 The Rise of the Novel
Ⅰ. Background Knowledge About the Rise of the Novel in England
Ⅱ. Discussions of the Major Novelists
Chapter 10 The Pro-Romantic Literature
Ⅰ. Background Knowledge About the Literature at the Turf of the Century
Ⅱ. Pre-RomanticPoetry
Ⅲ. The Gothic Novel
Part Ⅴ The Romantic Period （1780-1830）
Chapter 11 Wordsworth and Coleridge
Ⅰ. Background Knowledge
Ⅱ. The Romantic Sage， William Wordsworth
Ⅲ. Samuel Taylor Coleridge， Poet and Critic
Chapter 12 Byron， Shelley and Keats
Ⅰ. George Gordon Byron and the Byronic Hero
Ⅱ. Percy Bysshe Shelley， Poet and Utopian Socialist
Ⅲ. John Keats， the Poet of Beauty
Chapter 13 Walter Scott and Jane Austen
Ⅰ. Walter Scott， Romantic Writer of Historical Themes
Ⅱ. Jane Austen， Novelist of Social Manners
Part Ⅵ The Victorian Literature （1830-1880）
Chapter 14 The Victorian Age
Ⅰ. Background Knowledge
Ⅱ. Major Literary Achievements
Chapter 15 Victorian Novelists
Ⅰ. Charles Dickens
Ⅱ. William Makepeace Thackeray
Ⅲ. Charlotte and Emily Bront
Ⅳ. George Eliot
Chapter 16 Victorian Poets
Ⅰ. Alfred Tennyson
Ⅱ. Robert Browning
Ⅲ. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
IV. Matthew Arnold as a Poet
Chapter 17 Victorian Prose Writers
Ⅰ. Thomas Carlyle
Ⅱ. Thomas Macaulay
Ⅲ. John Stuart Mill
Ⅳ. John Ruskin
Ⅴ. Matthew，Amold
Part Ⅶ Fin de siecle and Modernist Literature （1880-1930）
Chapter 18 Fin de siecle
Ⅰ.Historical Background
Ⅱ. Intellectual Background
Chapter 19 Later Victorian to the First World War
Ⅰ.Fin de siecle Aestheticism
Ⅱ. Late Victorian Poetry
Ⅲ. Novels of This Period
Ⅳ. Drama of This Period
Ⅴ. Other Writers of This Period
Chapter 20 Modernist Literature
Ⅰ.Background Knowledge
Ⅱ. Modernist Novel and Novelists
Ⅲ. Modernist Poetry
Chapter 21 Non-Modernists Between the Wars
Ⅰ.Reflections on War and History
Ⅱ. Writers Between the Wars
Ⅲ. The Rise of Academic English Studies
Part Ⅷ Mid-Twentieth Century （1930-1990）
Chapter 22 The Second Wodd War
Chapter 23 Literature of the Second World War
Ⅰ. Surrealism
Ⅱ. War Poets
Ⅲ. Other Writers of This Period
Chapter 24 Postwar Literature
Ⅰ.Novels of This Period
Ⅱ. Drama of This Period
Ⅲ. Poetry of This Period
Chapter 25 Towards the New Century
Self Test
References
Chronology
Glossary of Literary Terms
Key to the Quizes and Self Test
Index of British Writers