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An Introduction to British Literature

An Introduction to British Literature. An Overall View of British Literature. Early and Medieval English Literature The English Renaissance The Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century Victorian Literature The Twentieth Century.

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An Introduction to British Literature

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  1. An Introduction to British Literature

  2. An Overall View of British Literature • Early and Medieval English Literature • The English Renaissance • The Seventeenth Century • The Eighteenth Century • The Nineteenth Century • Victorian Literature • The Twentieth Century

  3. Early and Medieval English Literature back • Old English Literature • Medieval English Literature

  4. Old English Literature back • Anglo-Saxon Poetry • Romance

  5. Anglo-Saxon Poetry back Beowulf The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Alliteration Metaphors Understatements

  6. Romance back • The most prevailing kind of literature in feudal England • A long composition describing the life and adventures of a noble hero • Central character – the knight • Theme – loyalty to king and lord • Three cycles • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  7. Medieval English Literature back • Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) The Canterbury Tales

  8. The English Renaissance back • Humanism • Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

  9. The 17th Century English Literature back • Francis Bacon (1561-1626) • Metaphysical Poets & Cavalier Poets • John Milton (1631-1700)

  10. Metaphysical Poets & Cavalier Poets back • Metaphysical poetry: mysticism in content and fantasticality in form John Donne (1572-1631) • Cavalier poetry: courtliness, urbanity, and the theme of love and “carpe diem” Ben Johnson (1572-1637)

  11. The 18th Century English Literature back • NeoClassicism:reason rather than emotion, form rather than content • Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) • Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) • Daniel Defoe(1661-1731) • PreRomanticists: Robert Burns(1759-1796) & William Blake(1757-1827)

  12. The 19th Century English Literature back • Romanticism:subjectivism rather than objectivism, “the heart” rather than “the head” • Lake poets: Lyrical Ballads • Active Romanticists • Romantic Novelists

  13. Lake Poets back • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) • Robert Southey (1774-1843)

  14. Active Romanticists back • George Gordon Byron (1788-1824): Don Juan • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Prometheus Unbound “A Defence of Poetry” • John Keats (1795-1821)

  15. Romantic Novelists back • Walter Scott (1771-1832) • Jane Austen (1775-1817)

  16. Victorian Literature back • Victorianism • Victorian novelists • Victorian Poets • Victorian Drama

  17. Victorian Novelists back • Charles Dickens (1812-1870) • William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) • The Bronte sisters • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

  18. Victorian Poets back • Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) • Robert Browning (1812-1888)

  19. Victorian Drama back George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) An Irish playwright Much concerned about the social problems Founder of the Fabian Society Widowers’ Houses Mrs. Warren’s Profession Major Barbars

  20. The 20th Century Literature back • Modernism • James Joyce (1888-1965) • Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) • D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) • T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) • William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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