English Literature table of Contents

Ⅰ。Introduction
Ⅱ。The Old English period (450---1066)
Poetry
Alliterative verse
The major manuscripts
Problems of dating
Religious verse
Elegiac and heroic verse
Prose
Early translations into English
Late 10th- and 11th-century prose
Ⅲ。The Early Middle English period (1066---mid-14th)
Poetry
Influence of French poetry
Didactic poetry
Verse romance
The lyric
Prose
Ⅳ。The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods (mid-14th—1550)
Later Middle English poetry
The revival of alliterative poetry
Courtly poetry
Chaucer and Gower
Poetry after Chaucer and Gower
Courtly poetry
Popular and secular verse
Political verse
Later Middle English prose
Religious prose
Secular prose
Middle English drama
The transition from medieval to Renaissance
Ⅴ。The Renaissance period: （1550–1660）
Literature and the age
Social conditions
Intellectual and religious revolution
The race for cultural development
Elizabethan poetry and prose
Development of the English language
Sidney and Spenser
Elizabethan lyric
The sonnet sequence
Other poetic styles
Prose styles
Elizabethan and early Stuart drama
Theatre and society
Theatres in London and the provinces
Professional playwrights
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare's works
The early histories
The early comedies
The tragedies
Shakespeare's later works
Playwrights after Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Marston and Middleton
Early Stuart drama
Early Stuart poetry and prose
The Metaphysical poets
John Donne
Donne's influence
Jonson and the Cavalier poets
Continued influence of Spenser
Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose
Prose styles
John Milton's view of the poet's role
Ⅵ。The Restoration（1660-1689）
Literary reactions to the political climate
The defeated republicans
Writings of the Nonconformists
Writings of the Royalists
Major genres and major authors of the period
Chroniclers
Diarists
The court wits
Dryden
Drama by Dryden and others
Locke
Ⅶ。The 18th century （1689---1798）
Publication of political literature
Political journalism
Major political writers
Alexander Pope
Thomson, Prior, and Gay
Swift
Shaftesbury and others
The novel
The major novelists
Daniel Defoe
Richardson
Fielding
Smollett
Sterne
Minor novelists
Poets and poetry after Pope
Burns
Goldsmith
Johnson's poetry and prose
Ⅷ。The Romantic period（1798---1832）
The nature of Romanticism
Poetry
Blake, William Wordsworth, and Coleridge
Other poets of the early Romantic period
The later Romantics: Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Byron
Minor poets of the later period
The novel: Jane Austen, Scott, and others
Miscellaneous prose
Drama
Ⅸ。The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras （1836---1901）
Early Victorian literature: the age of the novel
Charles Dickens
Thackeray, Gaskell, and others
The Bront?s Sisters (Emily Bronte)
Early Victorian verse
Tennyson
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Arnold and Clough
Early Victorian nonfictional prose
Late Victorian literature
The novelist (Thomas Hardy)
Verse
The Victorian theatre
Victorian literary comedy
Ⅹ。“Modern” English literature: the 20th century（ From 1900 to 1945）
The Edwardians
The modernist revolution
Anglo-American modernism: Pound, Lewis, D.H.Lawrence, and T.S.Eliot
Celtic modernism: William Butler Yeats, Joyce, Jones, and MacDiarmid
The literature of World War I and the interwar period
The 1930s
The literature of World War II (1939–45)
Literature after 1945
Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Ⅺ。Additional reading
General works
The Old English and early Middle English periods
The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods
The Renaissance period, 1550–1660
Elizabethan poetry and prose
Elizabethan and early Stuart drama
Early Stuart poetry and prose
The Restoration and the 18th century
The Romantic period
The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras
“Modern” English literature: the 20th century
From 1900 to 1945
Literature after 1945