英美文学史 重要作家作品

——Social images in 19 C English novels

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Charles John Huffam Dickens(狄更斯): Pickwick Papers(匹克威克外传)

Oliver Twist(雾都孤儿); David Copperfield(大卫·科波菲尔)

The Old Curiosity Shop(老古玩店) ; Dombey and Son(董贝父子) Bleak House(荒凉山庄) ; Hard Times(艰难时事) Little Dorritt(小杜丽); A Tale of Two Cites(双城记) Great Expectations(远大前程)

William Makepeace Thackeray(萨克雷): Vanity Fair(名利场)

Thomas Hardy(托马斯·哈代): Tess of the D’Urbervilles(德伯家的苔丝)

Jude the Obscure(无名的裘德)

Far from the Madding Crowd(远离尘嚣) The Return of the Native(还乡)

——English prose in 18 C and 19 C ----18th. C prose

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Samuel Johnson---his death marked the end of the Age of Reason

Life of Johnson

The Oxford English Dictionary

Thomas Carlyle(卡莱尔): The French Revolution

Past and Present

——Various Moods in 19. C English poetry

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson---the most prolific poet of the age

In Memoriam; Idylls of the King

Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book---masterpiece

Dramatis Personae

Dramatic Monologue(戏剧独白)

——Major novelists in the late 19 and 20 C

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Joseph Conrad(康拉德)---p329

John Galsworthy(高尔斯华)---p335 Nobel Prize

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (威尔斯): The Time Machine (时间机器)

The Invisible Man(隐身人) The War of the Worlds A Modern Utopia

——The stream of consciousness novels

Virginia Woolf(沃尔夫): Mrs. Dalloway (达洛卫夫人)

To the Lighthouse

Orlando , A Biography(奥兰多传) The Waves(浪)

James Joyce(乔伊斯): Ulysses(尤利西斯)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(一个青年艺术家的肖像) Finnegans Wake

——The new poetry in 20 C

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William Butler Yeats(威廉·巴特勒·叶芝)---p372 Nobel Prize T. S. Eliot---the most influential poet of the 20th C

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock---one of his most famous poems The Waste Land(荒原)---his monumental success Murder in the Cathedral(大教堂凶杀案) The Cocktail Party---drama He won the Nobel Prize in 1948

——20 C novels before 1950

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David Herbert Lawrence(劳伦斯): Sons and Lovers(儿子与情人)

The Rainbow Women in Love

William Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

The Moon and Sixpence Cakes and Ale The Razor’s Edge

Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party and Other Stories George Orwell(乔治·奥威尔): Animal Farm(动物庄园)

Nineteen Eight-four(一九八四)

——Despair and Absurdity in contemporary English drama

John Osborne(约翰·奥斯朋): Look Back in Anger(愤怒中回顾)

Samuel Beckett(赛缪尔·贝克特)---a forerunner of the theater of the absurd

Waiting for Godot(等待戈多) Nobel Prize in 1969

——Diversified topics in contemporary English novels

William Golding(戈尔丁): Lord of the Flies(蝇王)

The Inheritors(继承人) He won the Nobel Prize in 1983

Kingsley Amis(艾米斯·金斯利): Lucky Jim(幸运的吉姆)

Under the Net(网之下)

Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook(金色笔记)

She won the Nobel Prize in 2007

American Literature

——American Romanticism

American literature achieved maturity in the 19th C. ----Early Romanticism

Washington Irving(华盛顿·欧文): Rip Van Winkle---p73

James Fenimore Cooper(詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏): the series if five novels

The Deerslayer(杀鹿人); The Last of the Mohicans(最后的莫希干人);

The Pathfinder(探路者); The Pioneers(拓荒者); The Prairie(草原)

----Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation

Ralph Waldo Emerson(拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生)---the most representative

Transcendentalist---p88

Nature; The American Scholar

Henry David Thoreau(亨利·戴维·梭罗): Walden

The essay “Civil Disobedience” ----Interrogation Innocence

Nathaniel Hawthorne(纳撒尼尔·霍桑): The Scarlet Letter---the first great

American novel

Herman Melville(赫尔曼·梅尔维尔): Moby-Dick(白鲸) Edgar Allan Poe(爱伦·坡)---p114

----Whitman and Dickinson

Walt Whitman(沃尔特·惠特曼): Leaves of Grass(草叶集) Emily Dickinson---p127

----A House Divided: Writing against slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin(汤姆叔叔的小屋)

Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an

American Slave

——American Realism ----Regional and Local color writings

Mark Twain(马克·吐温)---the greatest humorist in the 19th C

The Gilded Age(镀金时代)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry James---p155

----Literary Naturalism