《英國文學(xué)簡史》反映了當(dāng)代新的教學(xué)理念。為此,編委會也做出了大量努力。一方面,編寫工作中強(qiáng)調(diào)協(xié)同性:在編寫策劃層面,出版社與編委會之間、編委會與編寫者之間反復(fù)協(xié)商,制訂計(jì)劃,討論樣章;在使用者層面,充分考慮到師生之間以及學(xué)生之間的互動和協(xié)作。另一方面,教材致力于構(gòu)建良好的英語學(xué)習(xí)平臺,為學(xué)生的自主性學(xué)習(xí)、獨(dú)立思考和創(chuàng)新思維創(chuàng)造條件,同時向作為教學(xué)各個環(huán)節(jié)的咨詢者、組織者、監(jiān)督者的教師提供指導(dǎo)。
1 0ld English Literature
Beowulf
‘The Seafarer’and‘The Wanderer’
Battle Poems and‘The Dream of tlle Rood’
Old English Language
2 Middle English Literature
From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer
Julian of Norwich,Margery Kempe,Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer'William Dunbar,Robert Henryson
WiUiam Langland,Medieval Drama,Thomas Malory
3 Sixteenth—Century Poetry and Prose
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sixteenth—Century Prose and the Reformation
The Sonnet:Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser
4 Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Context
Shakespeare,S Comedies and Histories
Shakespeare,S Tragedies
Shakespeare's Late Plays
5 Renaissance and Restoration Drama
Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe
Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
Ben Jonson and the Masque
Restoration Drama
6 Seventeenth—Century Poetry and Prose
John Donne
From Ben Jonson tO John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell
John Milton
John Dryden
7 The Eighteenth Century
Mexander Pope
The Augustan Age
Edward Gibbon,Samuet Johnson
Sensibility
8 The Novel:The First Hundred Years
Daniel Defoe
Aphra Behn,Samuel Richardson,Henry Fielding,Laurence Sterne,Tobias Smollett
From Eliza Haywood tO Mary Shelley
Wallter Scott and Jane Austen
9 The Romantic Period
The Age of Revolution
William Blake,William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
Lord Byron,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats
Radical vnices
10 Victorian Literature,1837—1857
C:harles Dickens
Charlotte and Emily BrontE
William Makepeace Thackeray,Elizabeth Gaskell
Mfred Lord Tennyson,Robert Brownin9,Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
11 Victorian Literature,1 857-1 876
Victorian Thinkers
George Eliot
Wlkie Collins and出e Sensation Novel
Anthony Trollope,Christina Rossetti
12 Victorian Literature,1876—1901
Thomas Hardv
George Gissin9,George Moore,Samuel Butler,Henry
James.Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
George Bernard Shaw,Oscar Wilde,Late Victorian Poetry
13 The Twentieth Century:The Early Years
Joseph Conrad
Arnold Bennett,H.G.Wells,E.M.Forster,Katherine Mansfield
D.H.Lawrence
Georgian Poetry,War Poetry,W B.Yeats
14 The Twentieth Century:Between the Wars
T S.Eliot
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
The l930s
15 The Twentieth Century:The Second World War to the End
of the Millennium
Wartime and Post一War Britain
Drama
Novels
Poetry
16 Postscript
The Twenty—First Century
Periods ofEnglish Literature and Language
Chronology
Further Reading