《英国文学史概述及作品选读》根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》的课程设置，充分考虑我国英语专业高年级学生的兴趣和爱好，简要介绍英国文学历史阶段的特点以及重要作家和作品，以期使学生对英国文学有总体的认识和把握。《英国文学史概述及作品选读》从早期英国文学到20世纪著名作家浩如烟海的作品中选择影响大、流传广、经过时间考验而脍炙人口的经典片段，引导学生从阅读原著入手，培养学生对文学作品的阅读、赏析能力，进而感受英国文学丰富的思想内涵和人文精神，并在此基础上提高学生的人文素质。

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Chapter 1: Early and Medieval English Literature
  Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 2: English Literature of the Renaissance
  Francis Bacon
  William Shakespeare
  Ben Jonson
  Christopher Marlowe
Chapter 3: English Literature during the English Bourgeois
  Revolution and the Restoration
  John Milton.
  John Bunyan
Chapter 4: Eighteenth Century English Literature
  Daniel Defoe
  Jonathan Swift
  Henry Fielding
  William Blake
  Robert Burns
Chapter 5: English Literature of Early Nineteenth Century
  William Wordsworth
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  George Gordon Byron
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  John Keats
  Walter Scott
  Jane Austen
Chapter 6: English Literature of the Mid-and-late-nineteenth Century
  William Makepeace Thackeray
  Charles Dickens
  Robert Browning
  Charlotte Bront? and Emily Bront?
  George Eliot
  Matthew Arnold
  Thomas Hardy
  Oscar Wilde
Chapter 7: English Literature of the Twentieth Century before World War II
  George Bernard Shaw
  Joseph Conrad
  William Butler Yeats
  Virginia Woolf
  James Joyce
  D. H. Lawrence
  T. S. Eliot
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