课程简介
《英国文学导读》 是学习英国文学的一门入门级的课程，主要介绍英国文学发展各个历史阶段、重要文学流派及作家、文学概念等，使学习者了解英美文学发展的概况，英国文学史上出现的重要文学流派，他们写作的特征、基本的文学主张以及各文学流派的代表人物及主要作品、风格和主题等，并且通过作品阅读和分析，掌握文学赏析的基础知识和方法。课程的特点是文学史与文本阅读相结合，用文学史的知识帮助文本阅读；通过文学阅读巩固对文学史的理解。
课程大纲
Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry
1.1 General Introduction
1.2 Literariness
1.3 Periods of British Literature
1.4 Renaissance
1.5 Rhyme and Rhythm of English Poetry
1.6 Elizabethan Poetry
1.7 Edmund Spenser and His Sonnet 75
1.8 William Shakespeare and His Sonnet 18
Elizabethan Drama
2.1 Introduction to Drama
2.2 Shakespeare's Time
2.3 Shakespeare's Predecessors
2.4 Shakespeare's Life
2.5 Shakespeare's Plays
2.6 The Merchant of Venice
2.7 Who is the Merchant of Venice?
2.8 Love and Friendship in The Merchant of Venice
2.9 Shylock
Milton and Neoclassical Poetry
3.1 English Revolution
3.2 Milton's Life
3.3 Introduction to Paradise Lost
3.4 The Image of Satan
3.5 Neoclassicism
3.6 Alexander Pope
3.7 An Essay on Criticism
Novels in the 18th Century
4.1 The Rise of Novel
4.2 Social Background of the 18th Century
4.3 Features and ”Fathers”
4.4 Defoe: Life and Works
4.5 Robinson Crusoe
4.6 A Close Reading of Chapter 4 of Robinson Crusoe
4.7 Samuel Richardson and Pamela
4.8 Henry Fielding
4.9 An Analysis of Tom Jones
Early Romantic Poetry
5.1 Introduction to Romanticism
5.2 Blake and ”The Chimney Sweeper”(1)
5.3 ”The Chimney Sweeper”(2)
5.4 Robert Burns
5.5 William Wordsworth
5.6 ”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (Daffodils)
5.7 ”Lucy”
5.8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.9 “Kubla Khan”
Later Romantic Poetry
6.1 Introduction to Byron
6.2 Don Juan and Byronic Hero
6.3 Introduction to Shelley
6.4 ”Ode to the West Wind”
6.5 Keats and His Works
6.6 ”Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Female Novelists in the 19th Century
7.1 Historical Background
7.2 Women's Problems and Female Writers
7.3 Jane Austen
7.4 Pride and Prejudice
7.5 The Bronte Sisters
7.6 Jane Eyre
7.7 George Eliot and Middlemarch
7.8 Crazy Women and Angels in the House
7.9 Realistic, Gothic and Science Fiction
7.10 Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Male Novelists and Dramatists in the 19th Century
8.1 Introduction to Realism
8.2 Charles Dickens
8.3 Social Criticism in Charles Dickens
8.4 William M. Thackeray
8.5 Vanity Fair
8.6 Thomas Hardy
8.7 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
8.8 Oscar Wilde
8.9 George Bernard Shaw
Victorian Poetry
9.1 Introduction to Victorian Poets
9.2 Tennyson's Life
9.3 Tennyson's Creation
9.4 ”Break, Break, Break”
9.5 ”Crossing the Bar”
9.6 Robert Browning
9.7 ”My Last Duchess”
Modern English Literature
10.1 Introduction to Modernism
10.2 William Butler Yeats
10.3 ”Down by the Sally Garden”
10.4 ”The Second Coming”
10.5 T. S. Eliot
10.6 The Waste Land
10.7 The Beginning Lines of The Waste Land
10.8 A Survey of Modern Novelists
10.9 Mrs. Dalloway
1.1 General Introduction
1.2 Literariness
1.3 Periods of British Literature
1.4 Renaissance
1.5 Rhyme and Rhythm of English Poetry
1.6 Elizabethan Poetry
1.7 Edmund Spenser and His Sonnet 75
1.8 William Shakespeare and His Sonnet 18
Elizabethan Drama
2.1 Introduction to Drama
2.2 Shakespeare's Time
2.3 Shakespeare's Predecessors
2.4 Shakespeare's Life
2.5 Shakespeare's Plays
2.6 The Merchant of Venice
2.7 Who is the Merchant of Venice?
2.8 Love and Friendship in The Merchant of Venice
2.9 Shylock
Milton and Neoclassical Poetry
3.1 English Revolution
3.2 Milton's Life
3.3 Introduction to Paradise Lost
3.4 The Image of Satan
3.5 Neoclassicism
3.6 Alexander Pope
3.7 An Essay on Criticism
Novels in the 18th Century
4.1 The Rise of Novel
4.2 Social Background of the 18th Century
4.3 Features and ”Fathers”
4.4 Defoe: Life and Works
4.5 Robinson Crusoe
4.6 A Close Reading of Chapter 4 of Robinson Crusoe
4.7 Samuel Richardson and Pamela
4.8 Henry Fielding
4.9 An Analysis of Tom Jones
Early Romantic Poetry
5.1 Introduction to Romanticism
5.2 Blake and ”The Chimney Sweeper”(1)
5.3 ”The Chimney Sweeper”(2)
5.4 Robert Burns
5.5 William Wordsworth
5.6 ”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (Daffodils)
5.7 ”Lucy”
5.8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.9 “Kubla Khan”
Later Romantic Poetry
6.1 Introduction to Byron
6.2 Don Juan and Byronic Hero
6.3 Introduction to Shelley
6.4 ”Ode to the West Wind”
6.5 Keats and His Works
6.6 ”Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Female Novelists in the 19th Century
7.1 Historical Background
7.2 Women's Problems and Female Writers
7.3 Jane Austen
7.4 Pride and Prejudice
7.5 The Bronte Sisters
7.6 Jane Eyre
7.7 George Eliot and Middlemarch
7.8 Crazy Women and Angels in the House
7.9 Realistic, Gothic and Science Fiction
7.10 Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Male Novelists and Dramatists in the 19th Century
8.1 Introduction to Realism
8.2 Charles Dickens
8.3 Social Criticism in Charles Dickens
8.4 William M. Thackeray
8.5 Vanity Fair
8.6 Thomas Hardy
8.7 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
8.8 Oscar Wilde
8.9 George Bernard Shaw
Victorian Poetry
9.1 Introduction to Victorian Poets
9.2 Tennyson's Life
9.3 Tennyson's Creation
9.4 ”Break, Break, Break”
9.5 ”Crossing the Bar”
9.6 Robert Browning
9.7 ”My Last Duchess”
Modern English Literature
10.1 Introduction to Modernism
10.2 William Butler Yeats
10.3 ”Down by the Sally Garden”
10.4 ”The Second Coming”
10.5 T. S. Eliot
10.6 The Waste Land
10.7 The Beginning Lines of The Waste Land
10.8 A Survey of Modern Novelists
10.9 Mrs. Dalloway