本教材共14个单元，选取英国文学史上从古英语时期到现代主义时期6个文学阶段最具代表性的文学作品进行介绍。本教材按照先总后分的方式展开：先对整个阶段的文学创作进行总体介绍，再按照诗歌、戏剧、小说等不同体裁划分为不同单元；每单元先概述具体文学体裁的总体创作，再按照小节对作家的作品进行导读；每小节包括作家及作品介绍、选读作品和练习题三个部分。其中，选读作品部分为学生精选了英国文学的经典之作，练习题基于作品由浅入深地提出启发性问题，旨在提高学生的英国文学赏析能力。本教材配有参考答案、课件、教案、课程思政案例等资源，使用本教材的教师可登录www.tsinghuaelt.com进行下载。
本教材适合高等院校英语类专业本科生使用，也可供广大英国文学爱好者参考阅读。

Part Ⅰ The Middle Ages
Unit 1 Old English Literature
1.1 Overview
1.2 Beowulf
Unit 2 Middle English Literature
2.1 Overview
2.2 Geoffrey Chaucer
Part Ⅱ English Renaissance
Unit 3 Renaissance Poetry
3.1 Overview
3.2 Elizabethan Poets
3.3 Metaphysical Poets
3.4 John Milton
Unit 4 Elizabethan Drama
4.1 Overview
4.2 The University Wits
4.3 William Shakespeare
Part Ⅲ The Neoclassical Age
Unit 5 Neoclassical Poetry
5.1 Overview
5.2 Alexander Pope
Unit 6 The 18th-Century Novels
6.1 Overview
6.2 Danicl Defoe
6.3 Sarmuel Richardsom
6.4 Henry Fielding
Part Ⅳ The Romantíc Age
Unit 7 Pre-Romantic and Early Romantic Poetry
7.1 Overview
7.2 William Blake
7.3 Robert Burns
7.4 William Wordsworth
7.5 Samucl Taylor Coleridge
Unit 8 Later Romantic Poetry
8.1 Overview
8.2 George Gordon Byron
8.3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
8.4 John Keats
Part Ⅴ The Victorian Age
Unit 9 Female Novelists of the 19th Century
9.1 Overview
9.2 Jane Austen
9.3 Charlotte Bronte
9.4 George Eliot
Unit 10 Male Novelists of the 19th Century
10.1 Overview
10.2 Charles Dickens
10.3 William Makepeace Thackeray
10.4 Thomas Hardy
Unit 11 Victorian Poetry
11.1 Overview
11.2 Alfred Tennyson
11.3 Robert Browning
Unit 12 Victorian Drama
12.1 Overview
12.2 Oscar Wilde
12.3 George Bernard Shaw
Part Ⅵ Modern Literature
Unit 13 Modernist Poetry
13.1 Overview
13.2 William Butler Yeats
13.3 T.S.Eliot
Unit 14 Modernist Fiction
14.1 Overview
14.2 Virginia Woolf
14.3 James Joyce
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