自考英美文学选读00604复习摘要.doc

英美文学复习摘要 英国文学 Introduction Naturalism Sentimentalism Symbolism Romanticism Realism Pessimism Modernism Term Definition new Style new 　 　 美国文学 Introduction Summary new Information 　 《英美文学选读》自学资料（英国文学部分） Contents Introduction The Old English period Poetry Alliterative verse The major manuscripts Problems of dating Religious verse Elegiac and heroic verse Prose Early translations into English Late 10th- and 11th-century prose The Early Middle English period Poetry Influence of French poetry Didactic poetry Verse romance The lyric Prose The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods Later Middle English poetry The revival of alliterative poetry Courtly poetry Chaucer and Gower Poetry after Chaucer and Gower Courtly poetry Popular and secular verse Political verse Later Middle English prose Religious prose Secular prose Middle English drama The transition from medieval to Renaissance The Renaissance period: 1550–1660 Literature and the age Social conditions Intellectual and religious revolution The race for cultural development Elizabethan poetry and prose Development of the English language Sidney and Spenser Elizabethan lyric The sonnet sequence Other poetic styles Prose styles Elizabethan and early Stuart drama Theatre and society Theatres in London and the provinces Professional playwrights Christopher Marlowe Shakespeares works The early histories The early comedies The tragedies Shakespeares later works Playwrights after Shakespeare Ben Jonson Marston and Middleton Early Stuart drama Early Stuart poetry and prose The Metaphysical poets Donne Donnes influence Jonson and the Cavalier poets Continued influence of Spenser Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose Prose styles Miltons view of the poets role The Restoration Literary reactions to the political climate The defeated republicans Writings of the Nonconformists Writings of the Royalists Major genres and major