本书编排上大胆创新，突破了以往编撰文学史的传统，把文学史同历史背景、人物影响、术语解释等有机地结合在一起，使学生能够迅速地深入理解特定历史环境中的作家和作品，汲取文学作品的精髓。

序言

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Part I From the End of 19th Century to 1914

Chapter 1 General Introduction

Major Writers in This Period

Novel ists

Chapter 2 Henry James

Chapter 3 George Wells, Arnold Bennett

Chapter 4 John Galsworthy

Chapter 5 Joseph Conrad

Chapter 6 D.H. Lawrence

Poets

Chapter 7 Sir William Watson, Robert Bridges

Chapter 8 A.E. Housman, Arthur Symons

Chapter 9 " W. B. Yeats

Chapter 10 Rudyard Kipling

Chapter 11 John Masefield, John Davidson, G.K.

       Chesterton

Chapter 12 Thomas Hardy

Playwrights

Chapter 13 Oscar Wilde

Chapter 14 Bernard Shaw

Chapter 15 John Millington Synge

Some Useful Information and Expl anation of Termsfor Part One

1．Major historical period and social events 

2．Important figures and their major works that have

great influences the world over

3．Major movements，literary tendencies，terms and some societies or groups

PartⅡFrom 1914 to 1945

Chapter 1 General Introduction

Major Writers in This Period

Novelists 

Chapter 2 F．M．Ford

Chapter 3 E．M．Forster

Chapter 4 James Joyce

Chapter 5 Virginia Woolf

Chapter 6 Aldous Huxley．Evelyn Waugh

Chapter 7 George Orwell．Jean Rhys

Chapter 8 Graham Greene

Poets

Chapter 9 T．S．Eliot

Chapter 10 Edith Sitwell，W．H．Auden

Chapter 11 Dylan Thomas

PIaywrights

Chapter 12 Noel Coward

Chapter 13 Sean O'Casey

Some Useful Information and Explanation of Terms

for Part Two

1. Major historical period and social events

2. Important figures and their major works that

 have great influences the world over

3. Major movements, literary tendencies, terms and

  some societies or groups

  Part 3 From 1945 to the 1960s

Chapter 1 General Introduction

Major Writers in This Period

Novelists

Chapter 2 Kingsley Amis

Chapter 3 Iris Murdoch

Chapter 4 Muriel Spark

Chapter 5 William Golding

Chapter 6 Doris Lessing

Chapter 7 John Fowles

Poets

Chapter 8 Philip Larkin

Chapter 9 Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill

PIaywrights

Chapter 10 John Osborne, Arnold Wesker

Chapter 11 David Storey

Chapter 12 Samuel Beckett

Chapter 13 Harold Pinter

Some Useful Information and Explanation of Terms

 for Part Three

1. Major historical period and social events

2. Important figures and their major works that have

  great influences the world over

3. Major movements, literary tendencies, terms and

  some societies or groups

   Part IV From the 1970S to the

      End of the Century

Chapter 1 General Introduction

Major Writers in This Period

Novel ists

Chapter 2 John Berger, Paul Scott

Chapter 3 J.G. Farrell, Margaret Drabble, Penelope

      Fitzgerald

Chapter 4 Martin Amis, Ian MeEwan

Chapter 5 Anita Brookner, Julian Barnes~

Chapter 6 Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro

Chapter 7 Pat Barker, Graham Swift

Chapter 8 Barry Unsworth, James Kelman, Roddy

      Doyle

Poets

Chapter 9 Seamus Heaney

Chapter 10 Tony Harrison, Douglas Dunn

Chapter 11 Andrew Motion, Blake Morrison

Playwrights

Chapter 12 Tom Stopparcl

Some Useful Information and Explanation of Terms

for Part Four

1. Major historical period and social events

2. Important figures and their major works that have

  great influences the world over

3. Major movements, literary tendencies, terms and

  some societies or groups

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