《英国文学导读》 是学习英国文学的一门入门级的课程，主要介绍英国文学发展各个历史阶段、重要文学流派及作家、文学概念等，使学习者了解英美文学发展的概况，英国文学史上出现的重要文学流派，他们写作的特征、基本的文学主张以及各文学流派的代表人物及主要作品、风格和主题等，并且通过作品阅读和分析，掌握文学赏析的基础知识和方法。
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参与课后讨论
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学习起点：
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Week 1 Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry
1.1 General Introduction
1.2 Literariness
1.3 Periods of British Literature
1.4 Renaissance
1.5 Rhyme and Rhythm of English Poetry
1.6 Elizabethan Poetry
1.7 Edmund Spenser and His Sonnet 75
1.8 William Shakespeare and His Sonnet 18
Quiz for Week 1
Week 2 Elizabethan Drama
2.1 Introduction to Drama
2.2 Shakespeare's Time
2.3 Shakespeare's Predecessors
2.4 Shakespeare's Life
2.5 Shakespeare's Plays
2.6 The Merchant of Venice
2.7 Who is the Merchant of Venice?
2.8 Love and Friendship in The Merchant of Venice
2.9 Shylock
Assignment for week 2
Week 3 Milton and Neoclassical Poetry
3.1 English Revolution
3.2 Milton's Life
3.3 Introduction to Paradise Lost
3.4 The Image of Satan
3.5 Neoclassicism
3.6 Alexander Pope
3.7 An Essay of Criticism
Quiz for Week 3
Week 4 Novels in the 18th Century
4.1 The Rise of Novel
4.2 Social Background of the 18th Century
4.3 Features and "Fathers"
4.4 Defoe: Life and Works
4.5 Robinson Crusoe
4.6 A Close Reading of Chapter 4 of Robinson Crusoe
4.7 Samuel Richardson and Pamela
4.8 Henry Fielding
4.9 An Analysis of Tom Jones
Quiz for Week 4
Week 5 Early Romantic Poetry
5.1 Introduction to Romanticism
5.2 Blake and “The Chimney Sweeper”(1)
5.3 “The Chimney Sweeper”(2)
5.4 Robert Burns
5.5 William Wordsworth
5.6 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (Daffodils)
5.7 “Lucy”
5.8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.9 “Kubla Khan”
quiz for week 5
Week 6 Later Romantic Poetry
6.4 “Ode to the West Wind”
6.5 Keats and His Works
6.6 “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
6.1 Introduction to Byron
6.2 Don Juan and Byronic Hero
6.3 Introduction to Shelley
quiz for week 6
Week 7 Female Novelists in the 19th Century
7.1 Historical Background
7.2 Women's Problems and Female Writers
7.3 Jane Austen
7.4 Pride and Prejudice
7.5 The Bronte Sisters
7.6 Jane Eyre
7.7 George Eliot and Middlemarch
7.8 Crazy Women and Angels in the House
7.9 Realistic, Gothic and Science Fiction
7.10 Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Women's Lives Reflected in Victorian Novels
Week 8 Male Novelists and Dramatists in the 19th Century
8.1 Introduction to Realism
8.2 Charles Dickens
8.3 Social Criticism in Charles Dickens
8.4 William M. Thackeray
8.5 Vanity Fair
8.6 Thomas Hardy
8.7 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
8.8 Oscar Wilde
8.9 George Bernard Shaw
quiz for week 8
Week 9 Victorian Poetry
9.1 Introduction to the Victorian Poets
9.2 Tennyson's Life
9.3 Tennyson's Creation
9.4 “Break, Break, Break”
9.5 “Crossing the Bar”
9.6 Robert Browning
9.7 “My Last Duchess”
quiz for week 9
Week 10 Modern English Literature
10.1 Introduction to Modernism
10.2 William Butler Yeats
10.3 “Down by the Sally Garden”
10.4 “The Second Coming”
10.5 T. S. Eliot
10.6 The Waste Land
10.7 The Beginning Lines of The Waste Land
10.8 A Survey of Modern Novelists
10.9 Mrs. Dalloway
quiz for week 10
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The Rise of the Novel. Watt, Ian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957
《文学术语词典》. Abrams, M. H. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2010
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Q : 英语需要达到什么程度才能修习课程？ A : 课程提供中英文字幕，英语达到大学英语四级以上者可能会轻松一些。