Part one :the middle ages中世纪文学
The middle English Period
Middle English Literature
Part two : the English renaissance文艺复兴时期文学
the beginning of the English Renaissance
The Elizabethan Age (the age of Shakespeare)
Eilzabethan Drama
University Wits and Christopher Marlowe
Eilzabethan Prose and Francis Bacon
the 17 century
Great Changes Brought By the Revolution
The Metaphysicals and The Cavaliers
Part three : the restoration and the eighteenth century
Political Social Cultural Background
Enlightenment and it effect upon English literature
The Rise of the Realistic Novel
The Origin of English Novel and Daniel Defoe
Samuel Richardson and the first English novel
Part four :the age of Romanticism浪漫主义文学
The First Generation of Romatics
The Younger Generation of Romantics
Non-- Poetic Literature of the age
Part five : the victorian age 维多利亚时代文学
Part six : the Twentieth century 20世纪文学
General introduction
Social and Political Background