Introduction to English Literature is an introductory course for the study of English literature. It mainly introduces the various historical stages, important literary schools, writers and literary concepts of the development of English literature, so that learners can understand the general situation of the development of British and American literature, and the important literary schools in the history of English literature. The characteristics of their writing, basic literary propositions and the representative figures of each literary school and the main works, styles and themes, and through the reading and analysis of works, master the basic knowledge and methods of literary appreciation. The course is characterized by the combination of literature history and text reading, and the knowledge of literature history is used to help text reading. Consolidate the understanding of literary history through literary reading.
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter 1 General 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
- Chapter 2 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
- Chapter 3 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 of Criticism
- Chapter 4 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
- Chapter 5 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"
- Chapter 6 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"
- Chapter 7 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
- Chapter 8 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
- Chapter 9 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"
- Chapter 10 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
- Final exam
Taught by
Deng Xiaohong, Ding Yanwen, and Flora Li