British Literature

英语语言文学考研英国文学框架整理： Old and Medieval British literature(449-1066-1485-1558) British Literature of the Renaissance Period(1558-1642) The 17th century-The period of Revolution and Restoration(1642-1770) The 18th century-The Age of Enligntenmemt in England(1770-1798) The Age of Romanticism(1798-1832) The victorian Period-English Critical Realism(1832-1901) The 20th Century British Literature(1918-1945) British Literature of the Modern Period(1945-)

British Literature

• Old and Medieval British literature(449-1066-1485-1558)
  • Socoal background
    • Roman Conquest
    • Anglo-Saxon Conquest
    • Norman Conquest
  • Major features
    • Few literary works
    • The works are obviously religious
  • Literary terms
    • Aliteration
    • Ballad
    • Romance
  • Representative works and authors
    • Beowulf
      • the highest achievement of the Old English
      • the earlist narrative poem
    • Caedmon
      • the earlist English poet
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
      • one of the best of the Middle English romances
    • William Langland
      • Piers the Plowman
        • a series of wonderful dreams
        • a picture of feudal England
    • Geoffrey Chaucer
      • Work
        • The Canterbury Tales
      • Title
        • father of English Poetry
• British Literature of the Renaissance Period(1558-1642)
  • Social background
    • Enclosure Movement
    • The War of Roses
    • Religious reformation
    • geographical exploration and trade expansion
  • Major features
    • The awakening of human consciousness
    • Humanism/freedom/democracyequality
  • Literary terms
    • Allegory
    • Humanism
    • Renaissance
    • Spenserian Stanza
  • Representative works and authors
    • Poetry, other unspecified forms and romance
      • Thomas More
        • Utopia
      • Edmund Spenser
        • The Faerie Queene
        • The Shepherd's Calendar
    • Essay
      • Francis Bacon
        • Works
          • The Essays
          • Meditations
          • Advancement of Learning
        • 子主题
    • Dramas
      • Christopher Marlowe
        • Tamburlaine
        • Dr.Faustus
        • The Jew of Malta
      • William Shakespeare
        • Works
          • A Midsummer Night's Dream
          • The Merchant of Venice
          • As you like it
          • Twelfth Night
          • Hamlet
          • Othello
          • King Lear
          • Macbeth
        • 子主题
      • Ben Jonson
        • Works
          • Every Man in His Humor
          • Volpone
        • 子主题
• The 17th century-The period of Revolution and Restoration(1642-1770)
  • Social background
    • The transition from feudal society to capitalism
    • The clashes between the King and Parliament
    • The outburst of the English Revolution
  • Major features
    • The disintergration of old values and the emergence of new ones
    • The appearance of Metaphysical poetry
    • Literary works are pessimistic and melancholy
  • Literary terms
    • Metaphysical poetry
    • Conceit
  • Representative works and authors
    • John Milton
      • Works
        • Lycidas
        • Paradise Lost
        • Paradise Regained
        • Samson Agonistes
      • 子主题
    • John Bunyan
      • Works
        • The Pilgrim's Progress
      • 子主题
    • John Donne
      • Works
        • The Sun Rising
        • Songs and Sonnets
        • Death, Be Not Proud
        • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
      • 子主题
    • John Dryden
      • An Essay of Dramatic Posey
      • father of English critism dialogue
• The 18th century-The Age of Enligntenmemt in England(1770-1798)
  • Social background
    • mercantilism
    • Fight between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie
    • French Revolution/American Revolution
  • Major features
    • Reason is the dominant feature
    • Classical rational literature coexists with romantic literature
    • Literary reading increased and novels began to appear in large numbers
    • The Age of reason and sensibility
  • Literary terms
    • Neoclassicism
    • Pre-romanticism
    • Sentimentalism
    • Gothic Novel
  • Representative works and authors
    • Daniel Defoe
      • Works
        • Robinson Crusoe
        • MollFalanders
      • 子主题
    • Jonathan Swift
      • Works
        • A Tale of a Tub
        • The Battle of the Books
        • Gulliver Travels
        • A Modest Proposal
      • 子主题
    • Samuel Richardson
      • Works
        • Pamela
      • 子主题
    • Henry Fielding
      • Works
        • Joseph Andrew
        • Tom Jones
        • Amelia
      • 子主题
    • Horace Walpole
      • Castle of Otranto
    • Alexander Pope
      • Works
        • Essay on Criticism
        • The Rape of the Lock
        • Essay on Man
      • 子主题
    • Laurence Sterne
      • Work
        • A Sentimental Journey
    • Thomas Gray
      • 子主题
        • Works
          • Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
      • 子主题
    • Oliver Goldsmith
      • Works
        • The Vicar of Wakefield
        • She Stoops to Conquer
      • 子主题
    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
      • Works
        • The Rivals
        • The School for Scandal
    • William Blake
      • Works
        • Song of Innocence
        • Song of Experience
        • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
      • 子主题
    • Robert Burns
      • Works
        • My Heart's in the Highlands
        • A Red, Red Rose
      • 子主题
• The Age of Romanticism(1798-1832)
  • Social background
    • Capitalism continues to develop, and social exploitation continues to increase
    • Theocracy is being eroded, and the desire for personal freedom and individual rights is increasing.
  • Major features
    • the idea of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" inspired English writers
    • They put more emphasis on individual feelings
    • Imagination is superior to reason.
  • Literary terms
    • Romanticism
    • Byronic Hero
  • Representative works and authors
    • Older Generation of Romanticists
      • William Wordsworth
        • Works
          • Lyrical Ballads
          • Lucy Poems
          • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
          • Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern
          • The Solitary Reaper
          • The Prelude
        • 子主题
      • Samuel Coleridge
        • Works
          • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
          • Kubla Khan
        • 子主题
      • Robert Southey
        • Works
          • Joan of Arc
        • 子主题
    • Younger Generation of Romanticists
      • George Gordon Byron
        • Works
          • Don Juan
          • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
          • She Walks in Beauty
          • When We Two Parted
        • 子主题
      • Percy Bysshe Shelley
        • Works
          • Prometheus Unbound
          • Ode to the West Wind
          • A Defense of Poetry
          • Adonais
        • 子主题
      • John Keats
        • Works
          • Ode on Melancholy
          • Ode on a Grecian Urn
          • To Autumn
          • Ode to a Nightingale
        • 子主题
    • Novelists
      • Jane Austen
        • Works
          • Pride and Prejudice
          • Sense and Sensibility
          • Emma
        • 子主题
      • Walter Scott
        • Works
          • The Lay of the Last Minstrel
          • Rob Roy
          • Ivanhoe
        • 子主题
• The victorian Period- English Critical Realism(1832-1901)
  • Social background
    • Theory of Evolution/Utilitarianism
    • Economic and industrial development/great disparity between the rich and the poor
    • The problem of women
  • Major features
    • Essence of literature: middle class/urban literature
    • Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expressionsof progressive thoughts
      • Optimistic-Mixed-Pessimistic
      • Didactic tendency/entertainment
      • Reflect society reality
  • Literary terms
    • Critical Realism
    • Plot
    • Dramatic Monologue
  • Representative works and authors
    • Charles Dickens
      • Works
        • The Pickwick Papers
        • Oliver Twist
        • The Old Curiosity Shop
        • David Copperfield
        • A Tale of Two Cities
        • Great Expectation
      • 子主题
    • William Makepeace Thackeray
      • Works
        • Vanity Fair
        • The Book of Snobs
      • 子主题
    • Charlotte Bronte
      • Works
        • Jane Eyre
      • 子主题
    • Emily Bronte
      • Works
        • Wuthering Heights
      • 子主题
    • Anne Bronte
      • Works
        • Agnes Grey
    • George Eliot
      • Works
        • Adam Bede
        • The Mill on the Floss
        • Silas Marner
        • Middlemarch
      • 子主题
    • Thomas Caryle
      • Works
        • Heores and Hero-Worship
        • Past and Present
    • John Ruskin
    • Matthew Arnold
      • Works
        • Culture and Anarchy
        • Dover Beach
      • 子主题
    • Alfred Tennyson
      • Works
        • In Memoriam A.H.H.
        • Idylls of the King
        • Break, Break, Break
        • Ulysses
        • The Princess
      • 子主题
    • Robert Browning
      • Works
        • The Ring and the Book
        • My Last Duchess
      • 子主题
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
      • Works
        • Sonnets from Portuguese
• The 20th Century British Literature(1918-1945)
  • Social background
    • World War II broke out/decline of the British Empire
  • Major features
    • Various trends and schools emergenced in this period.
    • Tendency to modernism
  • Literary terms
    • Aestheticism
    • Black humor
    • Stream of Consciousness
    • The Theater of Absurd
  • Representative works and authors
    • Thomas Hardy
      • Works
        • Tess of D'Urbervilles
        • Jude the Obscure
        • Far From the Obscure
      • 子主题
    • John Galsworthy
      • Works
        • The Forsyte Sage
      • 子主题
    • Samuel Butler
      • Works
        • The Way of All Flesh
    • Rudyard Kipling
      • Works
        • Kim
        • The Jungle Book
      • 子主题
    • Joseph Conrad
      • Works
        • Heart of Darkness
        • Lord Jim
      • 子主题
    • Katherine Mansfield
      • Works
        • Bliss
        • The Garden Party
      • 子主题
    • Oscar Wilde
      • Works
        • The Importance of Being Earnest
        • The Picture of Dorain Gray
        • A Woman of No Importance
        • Lady Windermere's Fan
      • 子主题
    • George Bernard Shaw
      • Works
        • Widower's Houses
        • Mrs.Warren's Profession
        • Man and Superman
        • Major Barbara
        • Pygmalion
        • The Apple Cart
      • 子主题
    • W.B.Yeats
      • Works
        • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
        • Sailing to Byzantium
        • When You are Old
      • 子主题
    • D.H.Lawrence
      • Works
        • Sons and Lovers
        • The Rainbow
        • Women in Love
        • Lady Chatterley's Lover
      • 子主题
    • James Joyce
      • Works
        • Dubliners
        • A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man
        • Ulysses
        • Finnegans Wake
        • Araby
      • 子主题
    • Virginia Woolf
      • Works
        • Mrs. Dalloway
        • To the Lighthouse
        • Orlando
        • The Common Reader
      • 子主题
    • William Golding
      • Works
        • Lord of the Flies
      • 子主题
• British Literature of the Modern Period(1945-至今)
  • Social background
    • history of decline
  • Major features
    • Turn back to tradition
  • Representative works and authors
    • George Orwell
      • Works
        • 1984
        • Animal Farm
      • 子主题
    • Doris Lessing
      • Works
        • The Golden Notebook
        • Children of Violence
        • The Grass Is Singing
      • 子主题
    • Kingsley Amis
      • Works
        • Lucky Jim
      • 子主题
    • Jean Rhys
      • Works
        • Wide Sargasso Sea
    • V.S.Naipaul
      • Works
        • In a Free State
        • A House of Mr. Biswas
      • 子主题
    • Salman Rushdie
      • Works
        • Shame
    • Kazou Ishiguro
      • Works
        • The Remains of the Day
        • 子主题
      • 子主题
    • John Osborne
      • Works
        • Look Back in Anger
      • 子主题
    • Harold Pinter
      • Works
        • The Caretaker
      • 子主题
    • Philip Larkin
      • Works
        • The Less Deceived
      • 子主题
    • Seamus Heaney
      • Works
        • Death of Naturalist
      • 子主题
    • Ted Hughes
      • Wors
        • Hawk in the rain
      • 子主题