英国文学简史

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《英国文学简史》全书共15章，加上关于21世纪的“补述”，比较全面系统地介绍了英国诗歌、戏剧、小说、散文等各种文学体裁的发轫和成熟。各章内容安排得当，对主要作家、主要作品进行较为深入的分析评论，叙述收放有度，主次分明。

书籍目录

1 Old English LiteratureBeowulf'The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer'Battle Poems and 'The Dream of the Rood'Old English Language2 Middle English LiteratureFrom the Norman Conquest to ChaucerJulian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightGeoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert HenrysonWilliam Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory3 Sixteenth-Century Poetry and ProseSir Thomas WyattSixteenth-Century Prose and the ReformationThe Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and William ShakespeareEdmund Spenser4 ShakespeareShakespeare in ContextShakespeare's Comedies and HistoriesShakespeare's TragediesShakespeare's Late Plays5 Renaissance and Restoration DramaRenaissance Drama and Christopher MarloweElizabethan and Jacobean Revenge TragedyBen Jonson and the MasqueRestoration Drama6 Seventeenth-Century Poetry and ProseJohn DonneFrom Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew MarvellJohn MiltonJohn Dryden7 The Eighteenth CenturyAlexander PopeThe Augustan AgeEdward Gibbon, Samuel JohnsonSensibility8 The Novel: The First Hundred YearsDaniel DefoeAphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias SmollettFrom Eliza Hay-wood to Mary ShelleyWalter Scott and Jane Austen9 The Romantic PeriodThe Age of RevolutionWilliam Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John KeatsRadical Voices10 Victorian Literature, 1837-1857Charles DickensCharlotte and Emily BronteWilliam Makepeace Thackeray; Elizabeth GaskellAlfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning11 Victorian Literature, 1857-1876Victorian ThinkersGeorge EliotWilkie Collins and the Sensation NovelAnthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti12 Victorian Literature, 1876-190113 The Twentieth Century: The Early Years14 The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars15 The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium16 PostscriptPeriods of English Literature and LanguageChronologyFurther Reading

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《英国文学简史》：A Brief History of English Literatureoffers an engaging chronological narrative of all the main literary periodsplaces texts in their social, political, and cultural contextscovers canonical and non-canonical textswill appeal to literature students and the general reader alike

内容概要

作者：（英国）佩克（John Peck） （英国）科伊尔（Martin Coyle） 合著者：王守仁

章节摘录

版权页：It is easy to construct a coherent overview of seventeenth-century poetry; whether such an overview has any validity, however, is open to question. Spenser, as the greatest non-dramatic poet of the sixteenth century, continued to be an influence, but we have to wait until John Milton to see a poet as ambitious as Spenser. Milton, however, has to be seen as rather detached from the poetic fashion of his day, whereas Donne both typifies and dictates the fashion. The so-called Metaphysical poets of the 1630s, 1640s and 1650s - George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell - all work in a manner initiated by Donne. Ben Jonson, on the other hand, favoured a more restrained form of social poetry. Amongst those who fell under his influence were the 'Cavalier' poets: Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling and Thomas Carew, as well as Robert Herrick and Edmund Waller. Jonson would also, in the course of time, prove a major influence on the neo-classical approach of John Dryden, the writer who, specifically in his satirical poems, seems to embody the spirit of the Restoration period.What complicates the issue immediately is the fact that writers who were influenced by, say, Jonson, were just as likely to have been influenced by Donne. The real problem in presenting an overview of the century's poetry, however, is the fact that a summary creates an impression of coherent change and development; whereas a more accurate impression is of variety and confusion. Indeed, in poem after poem there is an emphasis on the perplexing nature of life, a stance that is substantiated by the use of rhetorical devices such as paradox and antithesis, conceit and hyperbole. These rhetorical devices convey a sense of the complex and contradictory nature of experience. The security, such as it was, of the medieval world has been left behind, the poetry of the seventeenth century reflecting a world that has, in a variety of ways but perhaps most clearly with the execution of King Charles I by Parliament, in 1649, been turned Upside down.

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