PART ONE BRITISH LITERATURE

Chapter 1 Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．The Making of England

2．The Anglo-Saxons Period

3．The Anglo-Norman Period

Ⅱ．Literature

1．Anglo-Saxon Literature

2．Medieval English Literature

Chapter 2 Renaissance

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．The Reformation

2．The Growth of Modern Science

3．The Reign of Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ

4．The Renaissance

Ⅱ．Literature

Chapter 3 The Period of English Bourgeois Revolution

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．House of Studwart

2．The Civil War

3．Restoration

4．The Glorious Revolution

Ⅱ．Literature

1．Metaphysical Poets

2．Cavalier Poets

Chapter 4 Eighteenth Century English Literature

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．Augustan Age

2．Industrial Revolution

3．Great Changes in Social Life

4．Enlightenment

Ⅱ．Literature

Chapter 5 Romanticism in England

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．Negative Influences of Industrial Revolution

2．French Revolution

Ⅱ．Literature

Chapter 6 English Literature of the Mid-and-Late-Nineteenth Century

Ⅰ．Historical Background

The Victorian Age

Ⅱ．Literature

1．The Early Period of Victorian Age

2．The Mid-Victorian Period

3．The Late Victorian Age Period

Chapter 7 English Literature of the Twentieth Century before World War Ⅱ

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．World War Ⅰ

2．World War Ⅱ

Ⅱ．Literature

PART TWO AMERICAN LITERATURE

Chapter 1 The Literature of the Colonial America

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．The First American Farmers(5000 BC—2500 BC)

2．Columbian Discovery(AD 1492)

3．American Puritanism

4．The American Revolutionary War(1775—1783)

Ⅱ．Literature

1．The Native American and Their Culture

2．The Colonial Period

3．Symbolism

Chapter 2 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．Independent Nation

2．Westward Expansion

3．Growth of Industrialization

Ⅱ．Literature

1．Early Romanticism

2．Late Romanticism

Chapter 3 American Realism and American Naturalism

Ⅰ．Historical Background

1．The Civil War(1861—1865)

2．Westward Expansion

3．Public Education

Ⅱ．Literature

1．American Realism

2．American Naturalism

Chapter 4 Twentieth Century American Literature before the War

Ⅰ．Historical Barkground

1．World War Ⅰ(1914—1917)

2．The Jazz Age(the Roaring Twenties)

3．Great Depression

4．Roosevelt's New Deal

5．World War Ⅱ(1939—1945)

Ⅱ．Literature

1．American Modernism

2．Imagist Movement

3．The Lost Generation

4．Faulkner's Stream of Consciousness

5．American Realism

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