《英国文学史概述及作品选读》从早期英国文学到20世纪**作家浩如烟海的作品中选择影响大、流传广、经过时间考验而脍炙人口的经典片段，引导学生从阅读原著入手，培养学生对文学作品的阅读、赏析能力，进而感受英国文学丰富的思想内涵和人文精神，并在此基础上提高学生的人文素质。

Chapter 1:
Early and Medieval English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer

Chapter 2:
English Literature of the Renaissance
Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Christopher Marlowe

Chapter 3:
English Literature during the English Bourgeois
Revolution and the Restoration
John Milton
John Bunyan

Chapter 4:
Eighteenth Century English Literature
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Henry Fielding
William Blake
Robert Burns

Chapter 5:
English Literature of Early Nineteenth Century
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Walter Scott
Jane Austen

Chapter 6:
English Literature of the Mid-and-late-nineteenth
Century
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Robert Browning
Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Hardy
Oscar Wilde

Chapter 7:
English Literature of the Twentieth Century before
World War II
George Bernard Shaw
Joseph Conrad
William Butler Yeats
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
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