英美文学史及精要选读

　　《英美文学史及精要选读》针对三本院校及专科院校的英语专业学生，精心梳理英美文学史的脉络，精选每个时期的重点作家，通过作家介绍、作品介绍、作品精选、问题思考及参考答案等五个部分，本着重点突出、简洁明了的原则，注重实际教学效果和方便学生使用，注重培养学生的欣赏思辨能力及应试能力。

　　张丽娟，女，1980出生，河南安阳人，2006年毕业于四川外国语大学，获得硕士学位。现为郑州升达经贸管理学院外语系讲师，研究方向为英美文学与教学，曾获得院级青年教师讲课大赛第一名，发表学术论文数篇。张艳波，女，1979年出生，河南安阳人，2005年毕业于吉林大学外国语学院，获得硕士学位。现为郑州升达经贸管理学院外语系讲师，从事应用语言学、英语教学与翻译方面的研究，主编、参编《实用大学英语》、《英语语法精华》等教材多部。

前言
Part I. British Literature
Chapter 1. The Anglo-Saxon Period
1. Historical Background
2. Introduction to Beowulf
Chapter 2. The Anglo-Norman Period
1. Historical Background
2. Romances
3. Introduction to Sir Gaiwain and the Green Knight
Chapter 3. Geoffrey Chaucer
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Introduction to The Canterbury Tales
Chapter 4. The Fifteenth-Century Popular Ballad
Chapter 5. The Sixteenth-Century English Literature
1. Historical Background
2. Renaissance and Humanism
3. The Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Edmund Spenser
4. The Sixteenth-Century Drama Christopher Marlowe
5. William Shakespeare
6. Francis Bacon
7. The Sixteenth-Century Prose and Thomas More
Chapter 6.The Seventeenth-Century English Literature
1. Historical Background
2. Literary Features
3. John Milton
4. John Bunyan
5. John Donne
6. John Dryden
Chapter 7. The Age of Enlightenment
1. Social Background
2. Literary Background
3. Enlightenment
4. Alexander Pope
5. Daniel Defoe
6. Jonathan Swift
7. Samuel Johnson
8. Henry Fielding
9. Thomas Gray
10. Oliver Goldsmith
11. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
12. William Blake
13. Robert Burns
14. Samuel Richardson
Chapter 8. The Romantic English Literature
1. Historical Background
2. Romanticism
3. Literary Achievements
4. William Wordsworth
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. George Gordon Byron
7. Percy Bysshe Shelley
8. John Keats
9. Jane Austen
10. Walter Scott
Chapter 9. The Victorian Age
1. Social Background
2. Literary Features of the Victorian Age
3. Realism
4. Charles Dickens
5.  William Makepeace Thackeray
6.  George Eliot
7.  The Bronte Sisters
8.  Robert Stevenson
9.  Alfred Tennyson
10. Robert Browning
Chapter 10. The Twentieth Century Literature
1. Social Background
2. Modernism
3. Thomas Hardy
4. Oscar Wilde
5. George Bernard Shaw
6. William Butler Yeats
7. John Galsworthy
8. James Joyce
9.  Virginia Woolf
10.  D. H. Lawrence
11.  T.S. Eliot
12.  George Orwell
13.  Samuel Beckett   
14.  Doris Lessing Part II.  American Literature
Chapter 11. The Period of Colonialism
1. Historical Background
2. Puritanism
3. John Smith
4. Several Writers in this Period
Chapter 12. The Period of Reason and Revolution
1. Historical Background
2. Enlightenment
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. Thomas Paine
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. Philip Freneau
Chapter 13. The Period of Romanticism
1. Historical Background
2. Romanticism
3. Washington Irving
4. James Fennimore Cooper
5. William Cullen Bryant
6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Herman Melville
9.  Edgar Allan Poe
10. Walt Whitman
11. Emily Dickinson
12. Transcendentalism
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Henry David Thoreau
Chapter 14. The Period of Realism
1. Social Background
2. Local Colorism
3. Realism
4. Mark Twain
5. Henry James
6. William Dean Howells
7. O. Henry
8. Sherwood Anderson
9. Naturalism
10. Stephen Crane
11. Frank Norris
12. Jack London
13. Theodore Dreiser
Chapter 15. Twentieth-century Literature
1. Historical Background
2. Modernism
3. Poets of the 1920s
4. Novelists of the 1920s
5. Novelists of the 1930s
6. Dramatists of the 20th century
7. Novelists after World War II
8. Black Writers of the 20th Century
9. Chinese American Writers
10. Poets after World War II
Keys to Exercises
Appendix
References