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Chapter 1 Literature of Old and Middle English Periods(450-1485)
1.Introduction
2.Old English Period:449-1066
2.1 The Venerable Bede and Caedmon
2.2 King Alfred the Great
2.3 Beowulf
3.Middle English Period:1066-1485
3.1 Medieval Romance
3.2 Folk Ballad
3.3 John Wycliffe and William Langland
3.3.1 John Wycliffe(1324-1384)
3.3.2 William Langland(1330-1388)
3.4 Drama in the Middle Ages
3.5 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)
3.5.1 Chaucer's Life Background
3.5.2 Chaucer's Literary Career
Chapter 2 Literature of English Renaissance(1485-1616)
1.Introduction
2.Thomas More and Francis Bacon
2.1 Thomas More(1478-1535)
2.2 Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
3.Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
3.1 Sir Philip Sidney(1554-1586)
3.2 Edmund Spenser(1522-1599)
4.Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson
4.1 Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)
4.2 Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
5.William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
5.1 Life and Achievements
5.2 Historical Plays
5.3 Comedies
5.4 Tragedies
5.5 Romances
5.6 Sonnets
Chapter 3 Literature of the 17th Century(1616-1688)
1.Introduction
2.John Milton(1608-1674)
3.The Metaphysical Poets
3.1 John Donne(1572-1631)
3.2 George Herbert(1593-1633)
3.3 Andrew Marvell(1621-1678)
4.The Restoration Drama
5.John Dryden(1631-1700)
6.John Bunyan(1628-1688)
Chapter 4 Literature of the 18th Century:(1688-1798)
1.Introduction
2.Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
3.Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
3.1 Joseph Addison(1672-1719)
3.2 Richard Steele(1672-1729)
4.Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)
5.The Rise of the Novel in England
5.1 Daniel Defoe(16597-1731)
5.2 Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)
5.3 Samuel Richardson(1689-1761)
5.4 Henry Fielding(1707-1754)
5.5 Tobias George Smollett(1721-1771)
5.6 Oliver Goldsmith(1730-1774)
5.7 Laurence Sterne(1713-1768)
5.8 The Gothic Novel:Horace Walpole(1717-1797)and Ann Radcliffe(1764-1823)
6.Pre-Romantic Poetry
6.1 Graveyard School Poet:Thomas Gray(1716-1771)
6.2 Robert Burns(I759-1796)
6.3 William Blake(1757-1827)
Chapter 5 Literature of the Romantic Period(1798-1832)
1.Introduction
2.The First Generation Romantics
2.1 William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
2.2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
2.3 Robert Southey(1774-1843)
3.The Second Generation Romantics
3.1 George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
3.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
3.3 John Keats(1795-1821)
4.Novelist of So Manners:Jane Austen(1775-1817)
5.Historical Novelist:Walter Scott(1771-1832)
6.Familiar Essayist :Charles Lamb(1775-1834)
Chapter 6 Literature of the Victorian Age(1832-1900)
1.Introduction
2.Victorian Novelists
2.1 Charles Dickens(1812-1870)
2.2 William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)
2.3 Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte
2.3.1 Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855)
2.3.2 Emily Bronte(1818-1848)
2.4 George Eliot(1819-1880)
2.5 George Meredith, Anthony Trolldpe and Samuel Butler
2.5.1 George Meredith(1828-1909)
2.5.2 Anthony Trollope(1815-1882)
2.5.3 Samuel Butler(1835-1902)
2.6 Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)
3.Victorian Poets and Dramatists
3.1 Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892)
3.2 Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3.2.1 Robert Browning(1812-1889)
3.2.2 Elizabeth Barret'Browning(1806-1861)
3.3 Matthew Arnold(1822-1888)
3.4 Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)
4.Victorian Non-fiction Prose
4.1 Thomas Carlyle and Thomas Babington Macaulay
4.1.1 Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881)
4.1.2 Thomas Babington Macaulay(1800-1859)
4.2 John Henry Newman and John Stuart Mill
4.2.1 John Henry Newman(1801-1890)
4.2.2 John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)
4.3 John Ruskin and Walter Horatio Pater
4.3.1 John Ruskin(1819-1900)
4.3.2 Walter Horatio Pater(1839-1894)
Chapter 7 Literature of the 20th Century(1900-1945)
1.Introduction
2.The Edwardians and the'Georgians
2.1 Arnold Bennett and Herbert George Wells
2.1.1 Arnold Bennett(1867-1931)
2.1.2 Herbert George Wells(1866-1946)
2.2 John Galsworthy(1867-1933)
2.3 Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)
2.4 Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)
2.5 Ford Madox Ford(1873-1939)
2.6 Edward Morgan Forster(1879-1970)
2.7 The War Poets
3.The 1920s-Modernism
3.1 D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930)
3.2 Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)
3.3 James Joyce(1882-1941)
3.4 William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
3.5 Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-1965)
4.Poetry and Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s
4.1 Auden and the Audenic Group
4.2 Dylan Marlais Thomas(1914-1953)
4.3 Evelyn Waugh(1903-1966)
4.4 Aldous Leonard Huxley(1894-1963)
4.5 Henry Graham Greene(1904-1991)
4.6 Christopher Isherwood(1904-1986)
5.Drama of the First Half of the 20th Century
5.1 George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)
5.2 John Millington Synge(1871-1909)and Irish Dramatic MOvement
5.3 Sean 0'Casey(1880-1964)
Chapter 8 Literature of the 20th Century(1945-2000)
1.Introduction
2.Novelists in the 1940s and 1950s
2.I George Orwell(1903-1950)
2.2 William Golding(1911-1993)
2.3 Samuel Beckett(1906-1989)
2.4 Angry Young Men
3.Post-modern Experimental Novelists in the 1960s and 1970s
3.1 David Lodge(1935-)
3.2 B.S.Johnson(1933-1973)
3.3 Angus Frank Wilson Johnstone(1913-1991)
3.4 Lawrence George Durrell(1912-1990)
3.5 Anthony Burgess(1917-1993)
3.6 John Fowles(1926-2005)
4.Novelists since the 1980s
4.1 Martin Louis Amis(1949-)
4.2 Graham Swift(1949-)
4.3 Julian Barnes(1946-)
4.4 Peter Ackroyd(1949-)
4.5 Ian McEwan(1948-)
5.Some Women Writers
5.1 Muriel Spark(1918-2006)
5.2 Doris Lessing(1919-)
5.3 Iris Murdoch(1919-1999)
5.4 A.S.Byatt(1936-)
5.5 Margaret Drabble(1939-)
6.Some Ethnic Writers
6.1 V.S, Naipaul(1932-)
6.2 Salman Rushdie(1947-)
6.3 Kazuo Ishiguro(1954-)
7.Contemporary Poets
7.1 Philip Larkin(1922-1985)
7.2 Ted Hughes(1930-1998)
7.3 Seamus Heaney(1939-)
8.Contemporary Drama
8.1 John Osborne(1929-1994)
8.2 Harold Pinter(1930-2008)
8.3 Tom Stoppard(1937-)
8.4 Peter Shaffer(1926-)
8.5 Political Drama