本書是根據(jù)《高等學(xué)校英語(yǔ)專業(yè)英語(yǔ)教學(xué)大綱》的課程設(shè)置而編寫的。編者充分考慮到我國(guó)英語(yǔ)專業(yè)高年級(jí)學(xué)生的興趣和愛(ài)好,簡(jiǎn)要介紹英國(guó)文學(xué)歷史階段的特點(diǎn)以及重要作家和作品。從早期英國(guó)文學(xué)到20世紀(jì)著名作家的著名作品中精選出影響大、流傳廣、并經(jīng)過(guò)時(shí)間考驗(yàn)而膾炙人口的經(jīng)典片段,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生從閱讀原著人手,培養(yǎng)學(xué)生對(duì)文學(xué)作品的閱讀、賞析能力,進(jìn)而感受英國(guó)文學(xué)豐富的思想內(nèi)涵和人文精神,并在此基礎(chǔ)上提高學(xué)生的人文素質(zhì)。本書共分七章,每章由概述、作家簡(jiǎn)介、作品概要、原著選讀、注釋、賞析點(diǎn)評(píng)和思考題等部分組成。
Chapter 1:Early and Medieval English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 2:English Literature of the Renaissance
Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare
Ben Joon
Christopher Marlowe
Chapter 3:English Literature during the English BourgeoisRevolution and the Restoration
John Milton
John Bunyan
Chapter 4:Eighteenth Century English Literature
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Henry Fielding
William Blake
Robert Bur
Chapter 5:English Literature of Early Nineteenth Century
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Walter Scott
Jane Austen
Chapter 6:English Literature of theMid-and-late-nineteenthCentury
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dicke
Robert Browning
Charlotte Bronte and EmilyBronte
George Eliot
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Hardy
Oscar Wilde
Chapter 7:English Literature of the Twentieth Century beforeWorldWar II
George Bernard Shaw
Joseph Conrad
William Butler Yeats
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
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