苏州科技学院外国语学院英国文学史
课程考试大纲
一、课程性质与特点
英国文学史为“英语”和“英语（师范）”专业任意选修课，属于考查课，共24学时，1.5学分。本课程涵盖英国文学史上从中古英语时期、中世纪、文艺复兴、17世纪文学、18世纪文学、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义、后现代主义至当代各个时期重要的文学思潮、流派及其发生的社会、文化、哲学背景以及各个时期重要作家的代表性作品。
本课程所讲授的知识是英语专业本科生知识结构不可或缺的一部分，是英语专业学生人文素养必要的组成成分，也是英语专业八级考试“人文知识”部分考核的内容之一。
鉴于本课程学时短，内容多，本课程的特点是以史为经，以作家作品为纬，详讲文艺复兴、18世纪文学、浪漫主义、现实主义部分，略讲其它部分。
二、课程目标与基本要求
学生在学习本课程后应该对英国文学史上中古英语时期、中世纪、文艺复兴、17世纪文学、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义至当代各个时期重要的文学思潮、流派及其发生的社会、文化、哲学背景以及各个时期重要作家的代表性作品有个宏观的了解，能解释相关的名词，熟悉各个时期的主要特点和重要作家及其重要作品，并能结合文学的外在与内在因素对文学作品做出初步评论。
三、教材及主要参考书
教材：刘炳善：《英国文学简史》（新增订本）(A Short History of English Literature (Newly revised & enlarged edition)(“十一五”国家级规划教材).郑州：河南人民出版社，
2008.
主要参考书：刘意青、刘炅：《简明英国文学史》（A Brief History of English Literature---- from the Old English period to 1990s）. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2008.
四、考核内容与考核目标
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Chapter 1 The Making of England
I.The Britons : a tribe of Celts, the early inhabitants in the Island, form which (Britons)
Britain ( i.e. Land of Britons) got its name.（识记，重点）
II.The Roman Conquest : In 55 B.C. Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar, the Roman conqueror. The Roman conquest lasted for about 400 years (to AD 410). Road systems in London were built. （识记，重点）
III.The English Conquest : Britain invaded by three tribes (pirates) from North Europe: The Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Seven kingdoms were established----then combined into a united kingdom called England (the land of Angles)--- the three tribes mixed into one people called English or the Angles, and the three dialects grew into one single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. （识记，重点）
IV.The Social Condition of The Anglo-Saxons (识记，一般)
V.Anglo-Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence: The Anglo-Saxons were heathen people, believing in old mythology in North Europe. They were Christianized in the 7th century.
（识记，次重点）
Chapter 2 Beowulf
I.Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Beowulf (a poem of more than 3000 lines) is the national epic of the
English people. （识记，重点）
II.The Story (理解，一般)
III.Analysis of its Content(理解，一般)
IV.Features （应用，重点）
1)the use of alliteration ( certain accented words in a line begin with the same consonants;
2)the use of metaphors/kennings (e.g. “Ring-giver” for king , or “whale’s road” for sea)
3)the use of understatements (e.g. “not troublesome” for very welcome, “need not praise” for a
right to condemn)
Chapter 3 Feudal England
1）The Norman Conquest
I.The Danish Invasion (识记，一般)
II.The Norman Conquest
（1）The French-speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. William was later crowned as King of England.（识记，次重点）
（2）The Norman Conquest marked the establishment of feudalism in England. （识记，次重点）
（3）The influence of Norman Conquest on the English language. （应用，重点）
2) Feudal England (skip)
4)The Romance
I. The content of the Romance
(1)The most prevailing kind of literature in Feudal England was the romance. （识记，重点）
(2)The essence of the Romances id chivalry. （识记，次重点）
II. The Romance Cycle
(1)Matters of Britain (King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, the culmination of which
is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight); （理解，重点）
(2)Matters of France; (识记，一般)
(3)Matters of Rome. (识记，一般)
Chapter 4 Langland
（1）William Langland: author of Piers the Plowman;
（2）Piers the Plowman is one of the greatest of English poems, written in the form of a dream vision,;
（3）depicting the feudal England by allegory and symbolism. （识记，重点）
Chapter 5 The English Ballads
(1)definition of Ballad （应用，重点）
(2)The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad. (识记，一般)
(3)The Robin Hood Ballads （理解，重点）
Chapter 6 Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
(1) father/founder of English poetry
(2) major works: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales（识记，重点）
(3) The Canterbury Tales: （应用，重点）
A. Dramatic structure: a framed story (definition); (识记，一般)
B. realistic presentation of characters (e.g. Wife of Bath) and contemporary life; (识记，一般)
C. Heroic couple (definition), which is Chaucer’s chief contribution to the metric scheme of the
English poetry; （理解，重点）
D. He used London dialect (instead of Latin or French) as to write poetry, thus making English
Language of literature. （识记，重点）
Part Two: The English Renaissance
Chapter 1 Old English in Transition
I. The New Monarchy
(1) Hundred Years War with France (1337-1453) (识记，一般)
(2) The War of the Roses (1455-1485) (识记，一般)
(3) Tudor Dynasty , a centralized monarchy (to meet the needs of the rising bourgeoisie(识记，
一般)
II. The Reformation
(1) Henry VIII declared the break with Rome, and established Protestantism; (识记，一般)
III. The English Bible
(1)The first complete English Bible was translated by John Wycliffe (1324?-1384), the
morning star of the Reformation,” and his foll owers. （识记，重点）
(2)King James Bible, the Authorized Version. （识记，重点）
V.The Enclosure Movement (识记，一般)
VI.The Commercial Expansion (识记，一般)
VII.The War with Spain
(1)the rout of the Spanish fleet “ Armada” (Invincible)（识记，次重点）
(2)The English Bourgeoisie came to the fore in the arena of history. (识记，一般)
VII．The Renaissance and Humanism
(1)definition of The Renaissance（应用，重点）
(2)Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. （识记，重点）
Chapter 2 More
(1)Thomas More (1478-1535): the greatest of the English humanists, author of Utopia. （识记，
重点）
(2)Utopia（理解，重点）
Chapter 3 The Flowering of English Literature
I. The Flowering of English Literature （Skip）
II. Sidney and Raleigh
(1) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1686): well-known as a poet and a critic of poetry. (识记，一般)
(2) His Apology for Poetry is one of the earliest English literary essays. （理解，次重点）
III. Edmund Spencer (1552-1599)
(1) Known as “The Poet’s Poet”, held a position as a model of poetical art among the
Renaissance English poets. （识记，重点）
(2) The Faerie Queene （理解，重点）
(3) The Spenserian Stanza （理解，重点）
IV. John Lyly (1554?-1606) (skip)
V. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
(1) founder of English materialist philosophy; (识记，次重点）
(2) founder of modern science in England (Knowledge is power.) （识记，重点）
(3) two works Advancement of Learning and New Instrument （put forward “Inductive method of
reasoning”）（识记，重点）
(4) also famous for his Essays. （理解，重点）
Chapter 4 Drama
I. The Miracle Play
(1) The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its drama. （识记，重点）
(2) English drama had roots reaching back to the miracle plays of the Middle Ages. （识记，一般）
(3) definition of miracle plays (Based on Bible stories) （理解，次重点）
II. The Morality Play
(1) a little later than miracle plays. （理解，重点）
(2) definition (conflict of good and evil with allegorical personages, such as Mercy, Peace, Hate,
Folly and so on.) （理解，次重点）
III. The Interlude（识记，一般）
IV. The Classical Drama（识记，一般）
Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays were the forms of drama prevailing until the reign of Elizabeth and paved the way for the flourishing of drama. （识记，次重点）
V. The London Theatre
In the 16th century, London became the center of English drama. （识记，一般）
VI．The Audience（识记，一般）
VII. The Playwrights
The University Wits (Lyly, Peele, Marlowe, Greene, Lodge and Nash) （识记，次重点）
Chapter 5 Marlowe (1564-1593)
I. The most gifted of the “university wits” was Christopher Marlowe. （识记，重点）
II. Marlowe’s best includes three of his plays: Tamburlaine(1587); The Jew of Malta (1592);
Doctor Faustus（识记，重点）
III. Doctor Faustus（理解，重点）
IV. Social significance of Marlowe’s Plays（理解，重点）
V. Marlowe’s literary achievement
Marlowe first made blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the principal instrument of English drama. （识记，重点）
Chapter 6 Shakespeare (1564-1616)
I. Life
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon, a little town in Warwickshire. All through his life he wrote 37 (?39) plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. He was acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance.（识记，重点）
II. A Chronological list of Shakespeare’s plays（识记，一般）
III. Periods of his dramatic composition
(1)The 1st period: Historical plays (his first theatrical success was his historical
plays Henry VI) and four comedies. （识记，一般）
(2)The 2nd period: great comedies（识记，一般）
(3)The 3rd period: great tragedies and dark comedies（识记，一般）
(4)4th period: romances or reconciliation plays（识记，一般）
IV. The Great Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It;
Twelfth Night（应用，重点）
V. The Mature Histories
(1) Henry IV（识记，一般）
(2)The Image of Henry V: the symbol of Shakespeare’s ideal kingship. （识记，一般）
(3) The image of Sir John Falstaff（理解，重点）
VI. The Great Tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth（应用，重点）
VII. Hamlet（应用，重点）
（1）The story（识记，一般）
(2)The character of Hamlet (hesitant humanist) （理解，重点）
(3) The melancholy of Hamlet（理解，重点）
VIII. The Later Comedies（识记，一般）
IX. The Poems
(1) Venus and Adonis（识记，一般）
(2) The Rape of Lucrece（识记，一般）
(3) sonnets (154, definition) （理解，重点）
X. Features of Shakespeare’s Drama（理解，次重点）
Chapter 7 Ben Jonson (1572-1637
Mainly remembered for his comedies: Everyman in his Humour; Volpone, or The Fox; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair（识记，一般）
Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
Chapter 1 The English Revolution and the Restoration (skip)
Chapter 2 John Milton (1608-1674)
I. Life and work
(1) Areopagitica: appealing for the freedom of press. （识记，重点）
(2) three epics: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes（识记，重点）
II. Paradise Lost
(1) The story（识记，一般）
(2)Theme and characterization（理解，次重点）
(3) The Image of Satan（理解，重点）
III. Samson Agonistes（理解，次重点）
IV. Brief summary （理解，次重点）
Chapter 3 John Bunyan (1628-1688)
(1)The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory. （识记，重点）
(2)Content of The Pilgrim’s Progress（理解，重点）
Chapter 4 Metaphysical poets and Cavalier poets
(1)definition of “Metaphysical poetry”（理解，重点）
(2)John Donne was the founder of the Metaphysical School. （识记，重点）
(3)Other members of the metaphysical school: George Herbert (1593-1633); Andrew Marvell
(1621-1678); Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) （识记，一般）
Chapter 5 Some prose writers (Skip)
Chapter 6 Restoration Literature
I. Restoration Comedies (skip)
II. John Dryden (1631-1700)
(1)The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration period (1660-1688), poet, playwright,
and critic. （识记，重点）
(2)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy established his position as the leading critic of the day. （识记，
次重点）
(3)He was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the next century. （识记，
一般）
Part Four The Eighteenth Century
Chapter 1 The Enlightenment and Classicism in English Literature
I. The Enlightenment and the 18th century England
(1) After the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688, England became a constitutional monarchy and power
passed form the King to the Parliament and the cabinet ministers. （识记，次重点）
(2) The Enlightenment in Europe（理解，重点）
(3) The English Enlighteners: The representatives of the Enlightenment in English Literature were
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, the essayists, and Alexander Pope, the poet. （识记，重点）
II. (Neo-)Classicism （理解，重点）
Chapter 2 Addison and Steele
1. Richard Steele (1672-1729) and The Tatler（识记，重点）
2. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and The Spectator（识记，重点）
3. In the hands of Addison and Steele, the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre. Using it as a form a character sketching and story-telling, they ushered in the dawn of modern English novel.（识记，次重点）
Chapter 3 Pope
I. Life: Alexander Pope (1688-1774) is the most important poet in the first half of the 18th century.
（识记，重点）
II.Work
1. Essay on Criticism(1711) (some proverbial maxims: For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. To err is human, to forgive, divine. A little learning is a dangerous thing.) （识记，重点）
2. The Rape of the Lock (1714) （识记，一般）
3. Pope’s Homer: He translated the entire Iliad and Half of the Odyssey. （识记，一般）
4. Pope’s Shakespeare: He was an editor of Shakespeare’s plays.（识记，一般）
5. The Dunciad (1728-1742) （识记，一般）
6. Essay on Man (1732-1734) （识记，一般）
III. Workmanship and limitation
Pope is the most important representative of the English classical poetry and was at his best in satire and epigram. （识记，重点）
Chapter 4 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
1. His works:
(1) A Tale of a Tub : a satire upon all religious sects. （识记，次重点）
(2) The Battle of Books: an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time. （识记，次重点）
(3) Bickerstaff Almanac （识记，一般）
(4) Gulliver’s Travels: a political satire（理解，重点）
2.His style: 1）simple, clear and vigorous language (“ Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style); 2）master of satire and irony（识记，次重点）
Chapter 5 Defoe and the Rise of the English Novel
I. The Rise of the English Novel: The modern English novel in the 18th century.（识记，重点）Important novelists: Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne. （识记，次重点）II. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
(1)His works: Robinson Crusoe(1719);Captain Singleton(1720); Moll Flanders(1722);
Colonel Jacque (1722) （识记，次重点）
(2)Robinson Crusoe: 1) the story; 2) the character of Robinson Crusoe (the representative of
the rising bourgeoisie, practical and exact, religious, mindful of profit, colonizer) （理解，重点）
Chapter Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
His Novel: Pamela (, or, Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents): epistolary novel (novel of letters) （理解，重点）
Chapter 7 Henry Fielding （1707-1754）
1.Father of the English novel（识记，重点）
2. Joseph Andrews（识记，一般）
3. Jonathan Wild (exposing the English bourgeois society and mocking its political system) （识
记，一般）
4. (The History of )Tom Jones, (A Foundling)
1)The Story（识记，一般）
2)Characterization（识记，一般）
5. Fielding as the founder of the English realist novels（理解，重点）
6. Some features of Fielding’s novels. （应用，重点）
Chapter 8 Smollett and Sterne
I. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
(1) Roderick Random (1748): first important work by Smollett. It is a picaresque novel (i.e. a novel
of travels and adventures). （识记，重点）
(2)Humphry Clinker (1771): the best and pleasantest of Smollett’s novels (also a picaresque novle
narrated in the form of letters.) （识记，一般）
II. Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)
1. (The Life and Opinions of) Trstram Shandy(1760-1767): a plotless, formless novel full of
digressions, following “stream of consciousness”.（理解，重点）
2. A Sentimental Journey(giving the name of the School of “sentimentalism”).（识记，重点）
3. Sterne is remembered as a representative of sentimentalism in the 18th century. （识记，重点）
Chapter 9 18th Century Drama and Sheridan
1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
1) The Rivals( Mrs. Malaprop, thus giving the term “malapropism”, which means a ridiculous
misusage of big words.) （识记，次重点）
2) The School for Scandal: a great “ comedy of manners”, a satire of English high society. （理
解，次重点）
Chapter 10 Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): mainly remembered for his Dictionary. （识记，重点）Chapter 11 Goldsmith (1730-1774)
I. A representative of sentimentalists（识记，重点）
II. Work:
1. poems: The Traveler and The Deserted Village（识记，次重点）
2. Novel: The Vicar of Wakefield ( Goldsmith’s masterpiece, for which he was acknowledged to be
one of the representatives of English sentimentalism.) （识记，重点）
3. Comedies:
1) The Good-natured man (1768), a comedy of character; （识记，一般）
2) She stoops to conquer (1773), a comedy of manners; （识记，一般）
4. Essays: The Citizens of the World (1762), a collection of essays（识记，一般）
Chapter 12 Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794): author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire（识记，重点）Chapter 13 Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism in Poetry
I. Sentimentalism in English poetry: Thomas Gray (1716-1771) famous for his Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard, which is a model of sentimental poetry, and from
which Gray was called a poet of “Graveyard School”. （识记，重点）
II. Pre-Romanticism
Chapter 14 William Blake
1) Songs of Innocence（理解，重点）
2) Songs of Experience（理解，重点）
3) T he Marriage of Heaven and Hell（识记，一般）
4) His position in English poetry （识记，一般）
Chapter 15 Robert Burns
1. A poet of the peasants; （识记，重点）
2. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; songs written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects (some examples: A Red, Red Rose; My Heart’s in the Highlands. Auld Lang Syne) （识记，重点）
Part Five: Romanticism in England
Chapter 1 The Romantic Period
1. Romanticism (definition and characteristics)（应用，重点）
2. Lake poets (or Lakers, or escapist romanticists): Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey（识记，重点）
3. Active romanticists: Byron, Shelley and Keats. （识记，重点）
4. Romantic prose was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey; （识记，一般）
5. The only great novelist in this period was Walter Scott. （识记，重点）
Chapter 2 William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
1. In 1798, Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published Lyrical Ballads, which marked the break with the conventional poetic tradition of the 18th century Neo-classism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England. （识记，重点）
2. In the preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry. ( “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”) （识记，次重点）
3. Some of his short lyrics: Lines Written in Early Spring; To the Cuckoo; I wandered lonely as a Cloud; My Heart Leaps Up; Intimations of Immortality; Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby; The Solitary Reaper. （识记，次重点）
Chapter 3 Coleridge and Southey
I. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Poems: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan（识记，重点）
II. Robert Southey (1774-1843) : one of the Lakers. （识记，一般）
Chapter 4 George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
1. Childe Harold Pilgrimage( written in Spenserian stanza a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcbcc)（理
解，重点）
2. Don Juan: his masterpiece, written in “ottva rima”, each stanza containing 8 iambic pentameter
lines rhymed abababcc)（理解，重点）
3. Byronic Hero (definition) （理解，重点）
Chapter 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1882)
1. Queen Mab: Shelley’s first long poem of import ance, in the form of a fairy-tale dream,
presenting his views on philosophy, religion, morality and social problems. （理解，重点）
2. The Revolt of Islam (expressing his political and aesthetic ideas) （识记，重点）
3. Prometheus Unbound: Shelley’s masterpiece, a lyrical drama in 4 acts, symbolizing man’s
struggle against tyranny and oppression. （理解，重点）
4. The Masque of Anarchy(criticizing “free competition”)（识记，次重点）
5. Song to the Men of England (calling on the working class to rise against the ruling oppressors)
（识记，次重点）
6. Lyrics on Nature and Love: Ode to the West Wind(“If Winter comes, Can spring be far
behind?”); One Word is Too Often Profaned（识记，次重点）
7. In Defence of Poetry(Poetry is the indispensable agent of civilization. “Poets are the
unacknowledged legisl ators of the world”, and poetry can play a very important part in the spiritual life of society.) （识记，次重点）
Chapter 6 John Keats (1795-1821)
1. Five Long Poems : Endymion（识记，次重点）; Isabella（识记，一般）;The Eve of St. Agnes;
（识记，一般）Lamia; Hyperion（识记，一般）
2. Short Poems: Ode on a Grecian Urn (“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”) （识记，重点）; On First
Looking into Chapman’s Homer (a sonnet) （识记，次重点）; On the Grasshopper and the Cricket（识记，次重点）;Ode to Autumn; （识记，一般）Ode on Melancholy（识记，一般）; Ode to a Nightingale（识记，次重点）
Chapter 7 Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
1. The Essays of Elia(very humorous) （识记，一般）
2.Tales from Shakespeare (collaboration with Mary Lamb) （识记，次重点）
Chapter 8 Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
1. William Hazlitt: essayist, author of Table Talk; The Plain Speaker; Sketches and Essays（识记，
一般）
2. Henry James Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), essayist（识记，一般）
Chapter 9 De Quincey
1. Thomas De Qunicey (1785-1859), essayist, critic, author of The Confession of an English Opium- Eater. （识记，一般）
Chapter 10 Walter Scott
1. Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the historical novel. （识
记，次重点）
2. His Historical Novels
1) Rob Roy (Red Robert, about 1715 uprising) （识记，一般）
2) Ivanhoe (about Norman Conquest) （识记，次重点）
3) features of his historical novels. （理解，次重点）
Part Six: English Critical Realism
Chapter 1 The Rise of Critical Realism in England
1. English Critical Realism
1) definition（应用，重点）
2) The greatest English realist of the 19th century is Charles Dickens. （识记，重点）
Chapter 2 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
1.The First Period (1836-1841)
1) The Pickwick Papers（理解，次重点）
2) Oliver Twist（理解，重点）
3) Nicholas Nickleby（识记，一般）
4) The Old Curiosity Shop（识记，一般）
2. The Second Period (1842-1850)
1) Dombey and Son（识记，一般）
2) David Copperfield（理解，重点）
3. The Third Period (1851-1870)
1) Bleak House（识记，一般）
2) Hard Times（识记，一般）
3) Little Dorrit（识记，一般）
4) A Tale of Two Cities（理解，重点）
5) Great Expectations（识记，一般）
4.Dickens : Man and Writer（理解，重点）
Chapter 3 Thackeray
1. William Thackeray (1811-1863): a representative of critical realism. （识记，重点）
2. The Snobs of England, his first literary success, a satirical description of the different strata of the ruling class. （识记，一般）
3. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Thackeray’s masterpiece, the peak of his li terary career.
（理解，重点）
Chapter 4 Some Women Novelists
1. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
1) Sense and Sensibility（识记，重点）
2) Pride and Prejudice（理解，重点）
3) Emma（识记，次重点）
4) Persuasion（识记，次重点）
5) Mansfield Park（识记，次重点）
2. The Bront? Sisters
1) Charlotte Bront? (1816-1855): Jane Eyre (the image of Jane Eyre) （应用，重点）
2) Emily Bront? (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights ( the image of Heathcliff) （应用，重点）
3) Anne Bront?(1820-1849) （识记，一般）
3. Mrs Gaskell ( Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell) (1810-1865): Mary Barton (, a Tale of Manchester):
a realistic novel giving a picture of the class struggle in the period of Chartism. （识记，一般）
4. George Eliot (1819-1880):
1) Adam Bede:a novel of moral conflicts, showing the contest of personal desires, passion, temperament, human weaknesses and the claims of moral duty. （理解，次重点）
2) The Mill on the Floss（识记，次重点）
3) Silas Marner（识记，次重点）
4) The novels of George Eliot mark the beginning of a new stage in the development of English critical realism. Her characters are not grotesque types, but just common men and women. （识记，一般）
Part Seven: Prose-writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century Chapter 1 Carlyle
1. The Mid and late 19th century is sometimes called the Victorian Age because of the reign of Queen Victoria during 1837-1901. （识记，次重点）
2. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
1) Sartor Resartus (meaning “ the tailor retailored” or “the tailor reclothed”) （识记，一般）
2) The French Revolution（识记，一般）
3) Heros and Hero-Worship ( “ The History of the World is the Biogarphy of Great Men.”) （理
解，重点）
4) Past and Present（识记，一般）
Chapter 2 Ruskin and Some other Prose-Writers
1. John Ruskin (1819-1900): author of Sesame and Lilies; Modern Painters（识记，一般）
2. Mathew Arnold (1822-1888)
1) Literary Criticism: Essays in Criticism; Essays in Criticism, Second Series（理解，次重点）
2) Social Criticism: Culture and Anarchy ( representative work). （理解，重点）
3) Dover Beach(Arnold’s masterpiece, a poem expressing disappointment with modern civilization) （识记，重点）
3. Thomas Babington Macaulay: Prose stylist, author of History of England, his masterpiece. （识
记，一般）
Chapter 3 Tennyson
1. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The most important poet of the Victorian Age. （识记，重点）
2. In Memoriam (in memory of A.H. Hallam, e.g. “Break, Break, Break”) （识记，重点）
3. The Idylls of the King（识记，一般）
Chapter 4 The Brownings
1. Robert Browning: His principal achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry a new form, the “dramatic monologue (e.g. My Last Duchess).（识记，重点）
2. Mrs Browning (Elizabeth Barrett): Sonnets from the Portuguese（识记，一般）
Chapter 5 The Rossettis and Swinburne
1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): a founder of “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”. His best known poem is perhaps The Blessed Damozel. （识记，一般）
2. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) （识记，一般）
3. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) : author of Rubaiyat（识记，次重点）
4. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909): author of poems and Ballads. His poems, together with those of Rossetti and others, foreshadowed the literary trend of decadence and “art for art’s sake’, represented by Oscar Wilde in the 1890s. （识记，次重点）
Chapter 6 William Morris (1834-1896)
1. A Dream of John Ball and News from Nowhere are the two most important of Morris’s prose works. Both are in the form of dreams, the first of the past and the second of the future. （识记，次重点）
2. News from Nowhere: called “the crown and climax of his whole work”, describing a dream of the future classes society. （理解，重点）
Chapter 7 Literary Trends at the End of the Century
1. Naturalism
1) definition（理解，重点）
2) representatives (George Gissing and Thomas Hardy) （识记，次重点）
2. Neo-Romanticism
1) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was the representative of neo-Romanticism (inventing
exciting adventures and fascinating romances) in English Literature. （识记，次重点）
2) Treasure Island is his best-known work. （识记，重点）
3) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde（识记，次重点）
3. Aestheticism
1. definition (Art should serve no religious, moral, social or any anther purposes except itself) （理
解，重点）
2. Principle: Art for art’s sake. （识记，重点）
3. The two most important representatives of aestheticism in English literature are Walter Pater(1839-1894) and Oscar Wilde(1856-1900). （识记，重点）
4. Oscar Wilde: a spokesman for the aesthetic movement in England. （识记，重点）
1) Two collections of Fairy tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) （识记，次重点）;
A House of Pomegranates (1891); （识记，一般）
2) A collection of short story: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories; （识记，一般）
3) A series of critical essays: Intentions (1891); （识记，一般）
4) His only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) （识记，次重点）
5) Four comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan(1893); A Woman of No Importance (1894); An Ideal
Husband (1895); The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) （识记，重点）
6) One tragedy: Salomé（识记，重点）
Part Eight Twentieth Century English Literature
Chapter 1 The New Century: Social and Historical Background (skip)
Chapter 2 English Novel of Early 20th Century
1. The Realist:
1) Samuel Butler (1835-1902): Erewhon (1872); Erewhon Revisited (1901); The Way of All Flesh (1903, his masterpiece) （识记，一般）
2) Goerge Meridith: T he Egoist（识记，一般）
3) H(erbert).G(eorge). Wells: realistic novels, scientific fantasies, discussion novels（识记，一般）
4) Thomas Hardy (to be discusses in detail)
5) John Galsworthy (to be discusses in detail)
2. Other important novelists of the early 20th century
1) Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936): called “the bard of imperialism”.His works: Kim(1901); The Jungle Book (1894); The Second Jungle Book (1895) （识记，次重点）
2) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)The Old Wives’ Tales（识记，一般）
3) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): a Pole by birth, starting Learning English at his twenties. His works; Heart of Darkness; Lord Kim; Nostromo（识记，重点）
3. Henry James (1843-1916)
1)Born and educated in the U.S.as an American, but was naturalized as a British subject in 1915.
He was the forerunner of the “Stream of consciousness” literature.（识记，重点）
2)His representative works: Daisy Miller (1879); The Portrait of a Lady (1881); The Wings of
the Dove (1902); The Ambassador (1903); The Golden Bow l (19040（识记，重点）
4. Katharine Mansfield (1888-1923): Born in New Zealand, famous woman writer of short stories.
（识记，一般）
Chapter 3 Hardy
1. Thomas Hardy （1840-1928）: Novelist and poet, one of the English Critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. （识记，一般）
2. His principal works are the Wessex Novels, i.e. novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. （识记，次重点）
3. The Wessex novels: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872); Far From the Madding Crowd (1874); The Return of the Native (1878); The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886); Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1896). （识记，次重点）
4. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed, Hardy’s most famous book.（理
解，重点）
5. Jude the Obscure:“a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit” and “ the contrast between the ideal life a man wishe d to lead and the squalid real life he was fated to lead.” (Hardy’s words)（理解，次重点）
Chapter 4 Galsworthy
1. John Galsworthy (1867-1933): a representative of bourgeois realism in the 20th-century English novel，winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 193
2.（识记，一般）
2. The Forsyte Saga: the prose epic of the Forsyte family in two trilogies, each consisting of three novels and two interludes. （识记，一般）
1) The first trilogy: The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property(1906); The Indian Summer of a Forsyte (Interlude, 1917); In Chancery (1920); Awakening (Interlude, 1921); To Let (1921) （识记，重点）
2) The second trilogy: A Modern Comedy: The White Monkey (1924); A Silent Wooing (interlude, 1927); The Silver Spoon (1926); Passers-by (interlude, 1927); Swan Song (1928) （识记，一般）3) The two trilogies The Forsyte saga, and A Modern Comedy, should be considered a monumental work of critical realism in the English literature in the 20th century. （识记，次重点）
4) The Man of Property（理解，重点）
Chapter 5 The Irish Dramatic Movement
The leaders of the Irish Renaissance (The Irish dramatic revival) were the poet, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) and Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), both founders of the national Irish theatre, called the Abby Theatre. （识记，重点）
Chapter 6 Bernard Shaw
1. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Irish playwright, “a good man fallen among the Fabians”. (Lenin’s words)（识记，一般）
2.He lived a long life and wrote 51 plays, which include: Widower’s Houses（识记，一般）; Mrs Warr en’s Profession（理解，重点）; The Devil’s Disciple（识记，一般）; Man and Superman （识记，一般）; Major Barbara（理解，次重点）; Heartbreak House（理解，次重点）; Saint Joan （识记，一般）; The Apple Cart（识记，一般）; Pygmalion（识记，一般）
3. His first cycle of plays are called Plays Unpleasant; second circle, Plays Pleasant; Third cycle: Three Plays for Puritans. （识记，一般）
Chapter 7 Some Poets of Early 20th Century (skip)
Chapter 8 Modernism in Poetry
1. Imagism (formulated by Ezra Pound) （理解，重点）
2. The two important English poets of the first half of 20th century are W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.
（识记，重点）
3.William Butler Yeats (1965-1939): Easter 1916; The Second Coming; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Sailing to Byzantium.（识记，次重点）
4. T.S. Eliot (Thomas Sterns Eliot, 1888-1965): born as an American, a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique. He profoundly influenced 20th-century English poetry between World Wars I and II. （识记，一般）
1) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（理解，重点）
2) The Waste Land（应用，重点）
3) Murder in the Cathedral (a verse play) （识记，一般）
4)Four Quartets（理解，次重点）
Chapter 9 The Psychological Fiction
1. D.H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence, 1885-1930)
1) Sons and Lovers (1913) （理解，重点）
2)The Rainbow (1915) （识记，一般）
3) Women in Love (1920) （识记，一般）
4) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) （识记，一般）
2. The “Stream of Consciousness” school of Novel
1) definition（理解，重点）
2)James Joyce (1882-1941): Dubliners (1914,short stories) （识记，一般）; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) （理解，一般）; Ulysses(1922) （理解，重点）; Finnegans Wake (1939) （识记，一般）
3. Virginia Woolf (1992-1941): The Voyage Out(1915) （识记，一般）; Night and Day(1919) （识
记，一般）; Jacob’s Room(1922) （识记，一般）; Mrs. Dalloway(1925) （理解，重点）;To the Lighthouse (1927) （理解，重点）; Orlando (1928) （识记，一般）; The Waves(1931) （理解，重点）; The Years(1938) （识记，一般）; Between the Acts(1941) （识记，一般）; The Common Reader(1925, critical essays) （识记，一般）
Chapter 10 Robert Tressell: A Working-Class Novelist (skip)
Chapter 11 Marxist Literary Criticism (skip)
Part Nine: Poets and Novelists Who Wrote Both Before and After The Second World War
Chapter 1 Social and Historical Background （skip）
Chapter 2 W.H Auden
During the 1930s, the most active the English poets were the “Auden Group”including W.H. Auden, Stephen Spenser, C. Day Lewis and Louis Macniece, with Auden as the leader. He was the foremost left-wing poet of England in the 1930s. （识记，一般）
Chapter 3 Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953): “The last of the Romantic poets” or “ the n ew romantic poet of the 20th century.
Chapter 4 Hugh MacDiarmid (skip)
Chapter 5 E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970): Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) （识记，一般）; The Longest Journey (19070（识记，一般）; A Room with a View（1908）（识记，次重点）；Howards End（1910）（识记，重点）；The Passage to India (1924) （理解，重点）; Aspects of the Novel (1927, on theory of fiction) （识记，次重点）
Chapter 6 Evelyn Waugh(1903-1966) (skip)
Chapter 7 Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (1904-1991): Brighton Rock（识记，一般）
Chapter 8 Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963): Brave New World (an anti-utopian novel) （理解，次重点）Chapter 9 George Orwell
Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950): Animal Farm (1945) （理解，重点）; Nineteen Eighty-Four (an anti-utopian novel) （理解，重点）
Chapter 10 William Golding
William Gerald Golding (1911-1994)
Lord of Flies (1954) （理解，重点）
Chapter 11 Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing : 2007 winner of Nobel Prize for Literature. （识记，次重点）; author of The Grass is Singing; （识记，次重点）Children of Violence（识记，次重点）; The Golden Notebook (a feminist work) （理解，重点）
五、考试方式及试卷结构
1．考试类型：闭卷、笔试
2．记分方式：五级等级制（五等）
3．考试时长：考查课、100分钟
4．试题类型及比例：填空：20%；选择：30%；名词解释：20%；问答题：30%
5．难度等级及比例：易：50%，中等难度：30%，难：20%；识记：50%，理解：30%，应用：20%
6．课程总评成绩构成：平时成绩占60%，期末考试占40%。
《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements (此处可能会有填空,选择等小题 2. Romance (名词解释 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’ s story 4. Ballad(名词解释 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释 8. Renaissance(名词解释 9.Thomas More—— Utopia 10. Sonnet(名词解释 11. Blank verse(名词解释12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies” (推荐阅读,学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句,非常值得一读 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情节,人物形象都要熟悉,当然他最重要的是 Hamlet 这是肯定的。他的sonnet 也很重要,最重要属 sonnet18。 (其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要,特别是 Paradise Lost 和 Samson Agonistes。对于 Paradise Lost 需要知道它是 blank verse写成的,故事情节来自 Old Testament,另外要知道此书 theme 和 Satan 的形象。
考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
英国文学史 Part one: Early and Medieval English Literature Chapter 1 The Making of England 1. The early inhabitants in the island now we call England were Britons, a tribe of Gelts. 2. In 55 B.C., Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar. The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years. It was also during the Roman role that Christianity was introduced to Britain. And in 410 A.D., all the Roman troops went back to the continent and never returned. 3. The English Conquest At the same time Britain was invaded by swarms of pirates（海盗）. They were three tribes from Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. And by the 7th century these small kingdoms were combined into a United Kingdom called England, or, the land of Angles. And the three dialects spoken by them naturally grew into a single language called Anglo -Saxon, or Old English. 4. The Social Condition of the Anglo -Saxon Therefore, the Anglo -Saxon period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism. 5. Anglo -Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence The Anglo -Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century. Chapter 2 Beowulf 1. Anglo -Saxon Poetry But there is one long poem of over 3,000 lines. It is Beowulf, the national epic of the English people. Grendel is a monster described in Beowulf. 3. Analysis of Its Content Beowulf is a folk lengend brought to England by Anglo -Saxons from their continental homes. It had been passed from mouth to mouth for hundreds of years before it was written down in the tenth century. 4. Features of Beowulf The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration, metaphors and understatements. Chapter 3 Feudal England 1）T he Norman Conquest 2. The Norman Conquest The French -speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. After defeating the English at Hastings, William was crowned as King of England. The Norman Conquest marks the establishment of feudalism in England.
英国文学史 I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages
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英国文学史资料British Writers and Works I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages
①Beowulf: The national heroic epic of the English people. It has over 3,000 lines. It describes the battles between the two monsters and Beowulf, who won the battle finally and dead for the fatal wound. The poem ends with the funeral of the hero. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use if alliteration. Other features of it are the use of metaphors(暗喻) and of understatements(含蓄). ②Alliteration: In alliterative verse, certain accented(重音) words in a line begin with the same consonant sound(辅音). There are generally 4accents in a line, 3 of which show alliteration, as can be seen from the above quotation. ③Romance: The most prevailing(流行的) kind of literature in feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse(诗篇), sometimes in prose(散文), describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually a knight, as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournament(竞赛), or fighting for his lord in battle and the swearing of oaths. ④Epic: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significantly to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primacy, or original epics. ⑤Ballad: The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad which is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas(诗节), with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The subjects of ballads are various in kind, as the struggle of young lovers against their feudal-minded families, the conflict between love and wealth, the cruelty of jealousy, the criticism of the civil war, and the matters and class struggle. The paramount(卓越的) important ballad is Robin Hood(《绿林好汉》). ⑥Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里.乔叟: He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. He is the founder of English poetry. He obtained a good knowledge of Latin, French and Italian. His best remembered narrative is the Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》), which the Prologue(序言) supplies a miniature(缩影) of the English society of Chaucer’s time. That is why Chaucer has been called “the founder of English realism”. Chaucer affirms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes(反对) the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached(鼓吹) by the church. As a forerunner of humanism, he praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the “heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. ⑦【William Langland威廉.朗兰: Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》】
一、The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066) 1、这个时期的文学作品分类：pagan(异教徒) Christian(基督徒) 2、代表作：The Song of Beowulf 《贝奥武甫》( national epic 民族史诗) 采用了隐喻手法 3、Alliteration 押头韵（写作手法） 例子：of man was the mildest and most beloved, To his kin the kindest, keenest for praise. 二、The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350) Canto 诗章 1、romance 传奇文学 2、代表作：Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (高文爵士和绿衣骑士) 是一首押头韵的长诗 三、Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) 杰弗里.乔叟时期 1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父 2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵) lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格) 3、代表作：the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事(英国文学史的开端) 大致内容：the pilgrims are people from various parts of England, representatives of various walks of life and social groups. 朝圣者都是来自英国的各地的人,代表着社会的各个不同阶层和社会团体 小说特点：each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner, thus revealing his own views and character. 这些叙述者以自己特色的方式讲述自己的故事，无形中表明了各自的观点，展示了各自的性格。 小说观点：he believes in the right of man to earthly happiness. He is anxious to see man freed from superstitions(迷信) and a blind belief in fate(盲目地相信命运). 他希望人们能从迷信和对命运的盲从中解脱出来。 4、Popular Ballads 大众民谣：a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed(笔记) Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission(书上). 歌谣是匿名叙事歌曲,一直保存着口头传播的方式
History and Anthology of English Literature I Multiple Choices 1.The story of _________ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. A.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales 2.Chaucer died on October 25th, 140(), and was buried in __________ ? A.Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 3?Utopia was written in the form of _________ ? A. prose B. drama C? essay D. dialogue 4.________ i s the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry. A. John Donne B. George Herbert C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan 5.________ i s not written by William Blake. A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell B. Songs of Experience C. Auld Lang Syne D. Poetical Sketches 6."Some book are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested： This sentence is taken from __________ . A. Swifts A Modest Proposal B. Dickens\ Oliver l\vist C. Fielding 9s Tom Jones D. Bacon's Of Studies 7.Which poet is not the "Lake Poet"? A. William Wordsworth B. S. T. Coleridge C. Southey D. Keats 8.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _________ ? A. Science B. Arts C. Philosophy D. Humanism 9.Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in _________ . A? Romanticism B. Renaissance C. medieval period D? Anglo-Saxon period 10.Gothic novels are mostly stories of _________ , which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles? A.love and marriage B. sea adventures C. mystery and horror D. saints and martyrs II? The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gull iver's Travels arc _______ ?A? horses that are endowed with reason B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities C.giants that are superior in wisdom D.hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways 12. John Milton's masterpiece 一Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of ___________ ? A. rhymed stanzas B. blank verse C. alliteration D? sonnets 13? Which of the following has / have associations with John Donners poetry? A. reason and sentiment B. conceits and wits C. the euphuism D. writing in the rhymed couplet 14.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is
Part I The Anglo-Saxon Period(449-1066) I Background 449 the Teutons ( the Jutes, the Anglos, the Saxons) II Literature The literature of this period falls into two divisions—pagan and Christian Two Anglo-saxon Christian poets: Caedmon （凯德蒙，公元7世纪盎各鲁－萨克逊基督教诗人）who lived in the latter half of the 7th century and who wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible. Cynewulf（基涅武甫,盎各鲁――萨克逊诗人，生活在公元9世纪，其古英语诗稿于10世纪被发现，有《埃琳娜》,《使徒们的命运》，《基督升天》和《朱莉安娜》）, the author of poems on religious subjects III The Song of Beowulf( Beowulf, 公元7-8世纪之交开始流传于民间的同名史诗中的主人公，曾与水怪，火龙搏斗) Status: England’s national epic Written at the beginning of the tenth century Composed much earlier Length:3182 The whole song is essentially pagan in spirit and matter. Features : alliteration; metaphors; understatement Subject matter Part II The Anglo-Norman Period (1066—1350) I historical background: The Norman Conquest II. The Literature The literature which they brought to England is remarkable for its bright, romantic tales of love and adventure. III. Romance 1. Romance was the prevailing form of literature in feudal England. 2. Definition and features(理解) IV. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight a late-14th century middle-English outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. It was a verse romance of 2530 lines, considered as the best of Arthurian romances. Part III Geoffrey Chaucer(1340?-1400) I Major works The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰传奇》is a translation from a French poem. His masterpiece: The Canterbury Tales II Contributions 1. Chaucer—the forerunner of Renaissanc e
文档来源为 :从网络收集整理.word 版本可编辑 .欢迎下载支持. 台州学院外国语学院学年第学期 级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II 》期末试卷（11）( 闭卷 ) 题号分值得分姓名班级学号 考试时间 :120 分钟I II III IV V VI VII总分10101015201025100 I. Multiple choice . Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10) 1.The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____. A. strong-willed heroes B. mysticism C. moderation D. exotic pictures 2. “O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, ”is from____. A. Ozymandias B. Ode to the West Wind C. She Walks in Beauty D. The Isles of Greece 3.____is one of the Satanic“school ” poets. A. John Keats B. Percy Bysshe Shelley C. Leigh Hunt D. S. T. Coleridge 4.Dickens ’ first true novel is ____. A. David Copperfield B. Bleak House C. Oliver Twist D. Hard Times 5.The following novels are all written by Jane Austen Except. A. Pride and Prejudice B. Emma C. Mansfield Park D. Far from the Madding Crowd https://www.doczj.com/doc/f218113613.html,wrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________. A. Sons and Lovers B. For Whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea 7.____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19th century. A. Jane Austen’ s B. Walter Scott’Cs. Henry Fielding’ s D. Charles Lamb’ s 8.The title of Thackeray ’novels ____was borrowed from The Pilgrim s ’Progress by John Bunyan . A. The Roundabout Paper B. The Newcomers C. Vanity Fair D. The Four Georges 9.,which was written by Charlotte Bronte, is a poetic, imaginative story of the love of a young governess for her married employer . A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane Eyre C. The Professor D. Agnes Grey 10.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism. A. Richard Sheridan B. Oliver Goldsmith C. Oscar Wilde D. Bernard Shaw II. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10) ____1. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the prose of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. ____2.The Lakers include Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth . ____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight.