EnglishLiteratureCourseIntroductionCivilizationsWesternTraditionJudaic-ChristianOutlineofEnglishLiteraturePartⅠAncientandMedievalLiteratureGeoffreyChaucerPartⅡTheEnglishRenaissanceEdmundSpenserEnglishDramaisthehighestgloryoftheEnglishRenaissanceWilliamShakespeareTheMerchantofVeniceOthelloandDesdemonaShakespeare’sSonnets:Sonnetisapoemwrittenin14lines,thelast2ofwhichmustformarhymingcouplet.SummaryofShakespearetheGreatPlaywrightofAllTimePartⅢLiteratureinthePeriodoftheEnglishRevolutionJohnMiltonJohnBunyanPartⅣClassicismandtheRiseoftheEnglishNovelAlexanderPopeJonathanSwiftDanielDefoe,sonofabutcher,kindofjack-of-all-trades,amerchant,soldier,economist,politician,journalist,pamphleteer,publicistandaNOVELIST.Works:RobinsonCrusoeSamuelRichardsonHenryFieldingPartⅤPre-RomanticPoetsandRomanticisminEnglandEnglishRomanticism:1798–1832Generallyspeaking,theromanticistsexpressedtheideologyandsentimentofthosewhowerediscontentwith,andopposedto,thedevelopmentofcapitalism.Incontrasttotherationalismoftheclassicists,theromanticistspaidgreatattentiontothespiritualandemotionallifeofman.Twoschools:theeldergeneration(Wordsworth,ColeridgeandSouthey),“LakePoets”,escapistromanticists.theyoungergeneration(Byron,Shelley,andKeats)GeorgeGordonByron(1788-1824)PartⅥEnglishCriticalRealismandVictorianNovelistsWilliamMakepeaceThackeray(1811--1863)Life:Works:TheBookofSnobs,inwhichtheauthorexposessnobberyasthechiefviceprevailinginthebourgeois-aristocraticworldVanityFair:ANovelWithoutaHero,isThackeray’smasterpiece,inwhichThackeraymanagedtoshowapictureoftherulingclassesofEnglandandattackedthesocialrelationshipofthebourgeoisworldwheremoneygrubbingwasthemainthinginthemindsofallmembersoftherulingclasses.otherworks:Pendenis,TheNewcomes,HenryEsmond,TheVirginians,etc.WomenNovelistsTheBronteSistersLife:Works:Theirjointvolume----PoemsbyCurrer,EllisandActonBell(1846)Charlotte:Professor(1857)JaneEyre(1847)Shirley(1849)Villette(1853)Emily：WutheringHeights(1847)Anne:AgnesGrey(1847)