Part Ⅰ British Literature and Culture
Chapter 1 Early English Literature and Culture
The Background of Early British Culture
Beowulf
Geoffrey Chaucer(c.1343 -1400)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Beowulf
Chapter 2 The Sixteenth Century.The Renaissance and the Reigof Elizabeth
The Renaissance
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century.The Bourgeois Revolution
The Bourgeois Revolution
Francis Baco(1561-1626)
JohMilto(1608-1674)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Paradise Lost
Excerpt from The Holy Bible(King James Versioof 1611)
Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century.The Neoclassicism Era
The Age of Enlightenment
The Neoclassicism Era
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
JonathaSwift(1667-1745)
Samuel Johnso(1709-1784)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Gulliver's Travels
Chapter 5 The Early Nieenth Century and the Flowering of Romanticism
Romanticism
Lake Poets
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
George GordoByro(1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
Selected Reading "To a Skylark"
Chapter 6 The Late Nieenth Century.VictoriaEra and Realism iFiction
VictoriaEra
Realism iFiction
Aestheticism
William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Vanity Fair
Chapter 7 The Early Twentieth Century.Modernism
The Emergence and Development of Modernism
Bloomsbury Group
The AudeGroup
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
James Joyce(1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)
David Herbert Lawrence(1885-1930)
Thomas Steams Eliot(1888-1965)
Selected Reading Excerpt from The Waste Land
Chapter 8 The Late Twentieth Century.Post-modernism
Post-modernism
The Theatre of the Absurd
Angry Young Men
Samuel Beckett(1906-1989)
Doris Lessing(1919 -2013)
Kingsley Amis(1922-1995)
JohJames Osborne(1929-1994)
William Golding(1911-1993)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Lord of the Flies
PartⅡ AmericaLiterature and Culture
Chapter 9 Early Americaand Colonial Period to 1776
The Colonial Period iNew England
The Pilgrim and Puritans
The Mayflower Compact
Salem Witch Trials
Revolutionary Writers
Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)
CottoMather(1663-1728)
BenjamiFrankli(1706-1790)
Selected Reading Excerpt from The Autobiography of BenjamiFranklin
Chapter 10 The Nieenth Century Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
WashingtoIrving(1783-1859)
Ralph Waldo Emerso(1803-1882)
Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)
Walt Whitma(1819-1892)
Emily Elizabeth Dickinso(1830-1886)
Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Walden,or Life ithe Woods
Chapter 11 The Civil War and the ReconstructioPeriod
The Civil War
Gold Rush
The Gilded Age
Realism
Mark Twai(1835-1910)
Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811 -1896)
William DeaHowells(1837-1920)
Henry James(1843-1916)
Selected Reading The Gettysburg Address
Chapter 12 The Turning Period of the Twentieth Century and Naturalism
Naturalism
Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)
StepheCrane(1871-1900)
Jack Londo(1876-1916)
Selected Reading Excerpt from The Call of the Wild
Chapter 13 The World War I and the Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Imagism
The Lost Generation
Robert Frost(1874-1963)
Ezra Pound(1885-1972)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)
Selected Reading Excerpt from The Old Maand the Sea
Chapter 14 The Great Depressioand World War II
Great Depression
SoutherRenaissance
JohDos Passos(1896-1970)
JohSteinbeck(1902-1968)
Henry Miller(1891-1980)
William Faulkner(1897-1962)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Of Mice and Men
Chapter 15 The 1950s and the Beat Generation
The Cold War
The Beat Generation
IrwiAlleGinsberg(1926-1997)
Jack Kerouac(1922-1969)
William Seward Burroughs(1914-1997)
Jerome David Salinger(1919-2010)
Selected Reading Excerpt from The Catcher ithe Rye
Chapter 16 The 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement
Feminism
Vietnam War
Hippies
Black Humor
Yuppies
Ralph Elliso(1914-1994)
Joseph Heller(1923-1999)
NormaKingsley Mailer(1923-2007)
JohHoyer Updike(1932-2009)
Selected Reading Excerpt from Invisible Man
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