英国文学简史
2006-1
南开大学出版社
常耀信
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This book is a general survey of English literature. It is based on my decades of reading, teaching, and research experience in this literature and my acquaintance with the general tenor of the available literary criticism on it.The general layout of the book roughly follows the critical notion that the major authors get the lion's share of the space while the lesser lights settle for less or nothing. The 26 chapters here offer a sketch of the major writers with some mention of those, though minor in stature, who have made a scratch on the rock of time in their way. Thus the survey discusses the Old English and Medieval English periods in two chapters, focusing on Beowulf and Chaucer; the Elizabethan period in another two, highlighting Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare (as the great age is basically one of poetry and verse drama and the figure of Shakespeare towers so far above all the rest); the whole of the 17th century in one chapter, with Donne and Milton as the primary interests; the Classic 18th century in three, two on poetry and one on fiction, with Pope, Gray, Blake, and Burns in verse and Swift, Defoe, and Fielding in fiction taking up most of the coverage, and the Romantic period in two, centering on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. The Victorian period is a preeminent phase of English literary history, hi which many writers distinguish themselves in many divisions of literature. They vie vehemently for attention, and none seems able to overshadow the others. So this period takes up eight chapters, with Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy in fiction, Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold in poetry, and Shaw in drama making a greater claim on time in the discussions.
为全英文读物，是英美文学研究专家常耀信先生为广大读者奉献的又一力作。可满足学生学习与考研、教师授课与科研，以及一般性大众阅读等多种需要；它不仅在章节中设置了详细讨论题目，而且在书后配有“注释与参考资料”，列出重点研究成果问世情况，方便查索，有助于构思研究课题。可供本科生了解英国文学发展概貌与基本知识；供研究生精细研读，并助其设计学期论文作业或硕、博士毕业论文题目：供教师提炼教案、讲义；为中青年学者提供深层学术探索参考课题。
常耀信：教授，博士生导师，任教于中国南开大学及美国关岛大学．研究方向为英美文学。著有《希腊罗马神话》、《漫话英美文学》、《美国文学简史》（英文版）、《美国文学史（上）》（中文版）；主编有《美国文学选读》（上、下）、《美国文学研究评论选》（上、下）及《自选评论文集——文化与文学中的比较研究》等。此外，还在国内外刊物上发表过多篇论文，阐述中国文化对美国文学的影响。1988年被选人英国国际传记中心编纂的《远东及太平洋名人录》，后亦被选入《美国名师录》。
Foreword Chapter 1 The Old English （Anglo-Saxon）Period·Beowulf·The Middle English Period Beowulf·The Middle English PeriodChapter 2 Chaucer·The Pre Elizabethan Period·More Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age·Spenser·Sidney·Marlowe Chapter 4 Shakespeare·Bacon·Jonson·King James' Bible Chapter 5 The 17th Century·Donne·Milton·Dryden·Bunyan·The Restoration Theater Chapter 6 The Classic Age·Pope·Johnson·Gray·Goldsmith·Sheridan Chapter 7 Movement toward Romanticism·Thomson·Young·Cowper, Crabbe·Blake·Bums Chapter 8 18th-Century Fiction·Swift·Defoe·Richardson·Fielding·Sterne·Smollett Chapter 9 The Romantic Period·Wordsworth·Coleridge·Scott·Austen Chapter 10 Byron·Shelley·Keats Chapter 11 The Victorian Period·Victorian Prose·Carlyle·Mill·Newman Chapter 12 Victorian Fiction·Dickens·Thackeray Chapter 13 Charlotte and Emily Bronte·Meredith Chapter 14 George Eliot·Trollope·Butler Chapter 15 Hardy·Gissing·Moore·Wilde·Stevenson Chapter 16 Victorian Poetry·Tennyson·Browning·Arnold Chapter 17 Clough·Hopkins·Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat·The Aesthetic Movement Chapter 18 Victorian Drama·Shaw·Wilde Chapter 19 The Early 20th Century·The Edwardians·The Georgians·The War Poets Chapter 20 The 1920s·Woolf·Joyce Chapter 21 Lawrence·Yeats·Imagism·T. S. Eliot Chapter 22 Poetry of the 1930s·Auden·The Audenic Group·Thomas·EmpsonChapter 23 Fiction of the 1930s·Huxley·OrweU·Waugh·Greene·Isherwood Chapter 24 Postwar Poetry Chapter 25 Postwar Fiction Chapter 26 Postwar Drama Notes and References Index
Medieval Literature: A Brief Introduction4The date that even a child of three in England is supposed to know is 1066, the year of the conquest of England by the French-speaking Normans. It was the year in which the Normans came under William the Conqueror, and the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold died with an arrow shot through his eye at the battle of Hastings. It was also the year that marked the beginning of the Middle English or Anglo-Norman period (1066-1400). The Norman line of kings sat on the throne for some 90 years and gave place to the Angevin kings (or the Plantangenets) in 1154. King Henry II and his descendants stayed in power for 245 years until they were superseded by the House of Lancaster in 1399 when the last of the Plantangenets, Richard II, was dethroned. This happened just one year before Chaucer died. Regarding this period there are a few occurrences of historic magnitude that should be kept in mind:(1) The Establishment of the Feudal System: William the Conqueror did this effectively within a short space of time. He grabbed Anglo-Saxon land by force and gave it to his nobles and followers. These became lords of manors demanding allegiance from their Anglo-Saxon serfs and owed it to their immediate superiors. The hierarchy was a multi-tiered degradation with the king at the top keeping all the power in his hands. The relative peace that followed brought power and wealth and made the milieu congenial to the growth of art and literature.(2) The 1381 Peasant Uprising: Within the system the nobles and the aristocrats had all the power and privileges while the serfs remained as wretched as ever. The widespread disaffection led eventually to the peasants' revolt in 1381 which was led by Wat Tyler of Kent and Jack Straw of Essex. 100,000 people marched on London, destroyed manor-houses, burnt court papers—records of their bondage, and demanded the abolition of serf slavery and a general pardon. Though it was eventually put down, serfdom died out gradually.(3) The Completion of the Domesday Book (1086): Though undertaken as a tax-book or rent-roll to provide the king with an estimate of his resources, the Domesday Book serves also as a historical record of Anglo-Saxon institutions, customs, and way of life which would have otherwise been lost to time.
《英国文学简史:南开英美文学精品教材》为普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材 纯英文版。作者常耀信教授。
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购得《英国文学简史》和《美国文学简史》各一本，本人被其劣质的纸张，简陋的装订，吝啬的字体印刷所深深折服！！！建议以后再版之时，做以下改进：1，用16开开本印刷。当前国际上大学教材基本上为16开本，这样字体可以放大一点，读者的眼睛可以免去一些痛苦。2，纸张用淡黄色，如若成本太高，那就选用普通本白色。而手上的这两册书的纸质连普通都谈不上！3，如果能对历史事件、作家、作品人物等辅已插图的话，则更便于读者阅读与理解！希望作者和出版社能考虑一下！作者只管写，印刷厂只管印，出版社只管发行，这样的运作方式即落后，又无法把市场做大！到头来是读者怨声载道，作者拿不到更多的版税，养了印刷厂一帮闲人！上海读者 哈同
我们用它来做大学本科的教材，但这么书应该不止于此，考研应该也是很有帮助的，深度，广度，都是足够的，纸质良好，正品，唯一缺点是字有些小。
今天我的书已收到，但发来的书是并不是正版 纸张很差
英语（文学方向）考研经典好书，强烈推荐。
书的纸张质量挺好的，常耀信编的教材大家都熟悉啦，喜欢他的模式就行。
纸张的质量没有评论说的那么差，至少比美国文学简史要好很多，内容也很不错，漫话英美文学那本书的纸张质量实在就太差了。
是英文版的，很流畅，读着不累，像在听老师讲课一样
纸质如此,必定盗版.真有辱贵网的脸面,伤顾客的心.地摊上5块就卖,费我们半天事!真可恶!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
书很不错，很实用，5星好评
教材内容丰富，包括的面很多。表述经典，适于学习。
我的高英老师推荐的，不过这是新版本，书变厚了，字变小啦，看起来蛮费劲儿的，内容不错
内容丰富，老师同学都在推荐
这本书很经典，很适合做英语专业学生英国文学的辅导书
发货及时，10月4日晚下单，10月7日下午到货，快递员服务不错；书的质量很好，专家编写，内容丰富，纸质、排版、装订都很好！
但是保存的很好，但是版面印刷不是很清楚，里面纸张虽然薄。。。。应该是正版的吧
专业必修课，老师推荐的必备教材
挺好的书不过看起来字数多密密麻麻的有点晕
卖家发货及物流速度比同时期购买的《美国文学简史》要快很多，书本身内容不错，考研必备~~~
书与描述一致，正版，物流速度快，满意。
书是考研的参考书，内容没的说，但是，这书刚拿到手才翻了翻而已就发现书已经裂成两瓣了。。。
很不错的英语专业考研辅导书
英国文学教科书典范
书嘛 没啥喜欢不喜欢的
外经贸英语考研制定用书
帮女朋友买的,考研用的，貌似不错
英国文学简史