英国文学复习提纲1

《英国文学》复习提纲

Part One:

1.The making of England and Beowulf

2.Norman Conquest

3.The Romance in feudal England and Piers the Plowman

4.Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales

Part Two:

1.The English Bible

2.William Caxton

3.The English Renaissance and Humanism

4.More, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare

5.Marlowe and blank verse

Part Three:

1.John Milton and his Paradise Lost

2.Metaphysical School

Part Four:

1.Great enlighteners: Addison, Steele and Pope

2.The rise of the English novel

3.Novelists: Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Goldsmith; Richardson and novel of letters

4.18th century drama and Sheridan

5.The first dictionary in the English language

6.The historian Gibbon in 18th century

7.Classicism—Sentimentalism—Romanticism

8.Blake and Burns

Part Five:Poetry, Prose, and Novels in Romanticism

Part Six:

1.Two great representatives of Critical Realism

2.Some women novelists

Questions and Comments:

1.The social significance of the Canterbury Tales.

2.Analysis on the features of Shakespeare and his drama.

3.Sum up Steele’s and Addison’s contribution to the English literature.

4.Analysis on the character of Robinson Crusoe.

5.Features of Walter Scott’s Historical Novels.

ments on Charles Dickens the man and Charles Dickens the novelist.

7.Analysis on the character of Hamlet.