英美文学Literature选读作家作品表格.doc

时期作家作品特色Renaissance (15th-17th century)William ShakespeareComedy: The merchant of Venice; twelfth night; Romeo and Juliet; Tragedy: Hamlet; Othello; king Lear; Macbeth; Miracle: The tempestSonnets: Sonnet 18Dramatic monologue;Sonnet;humanismJohn DonneSongs and sonnets; holy sonnets; death be not proudMetaphysical school; deathEnlightenment / Neoclassical / Age of Reason (18th century)Daniel Defoe:Father of English novelRobinson Crusoe; captain singleton;moll FlandersAdventure; pioneering spiritJonathan swift: satiristA tale of a tub; the battle of the books; a modest proposal; Gullivers travelsSatire;Adventure;Romanticism (1798-1832)William BlakeSongs of innocence; (the lamb)songs of experience (the tiger)ChildhoodmiseryWilliam Wordsworth:Poet laureateLyrical Ballads; I Wandered lonely as a cloud; Solitary reaper; Lucy poemsNature; loveJane AustenPride and prejudice; sense and sensibility; Mansfield park; Emma; Northanger abbey; persuasion; Love & marriage;Romanticism & realismGeorge Gordon ByronHours of idleness; childe Harolds pilgrimage; Don Juan; she walks in beautyByronic Hero; Rebellious spiritPercy Bysshe ShelleyThe necessity of atheism; queen Mab; the revolt of Isiam; Prometheus unbound; ode to the west windRevolutionary spirit; optimismRealism (1832-1900)Charlotte BrontJane Eyre; the professorIndependent governess; loveEmily BrontWuthering HeightsLove & revenge; 2 narratorsCharles dickensOliver twist; David Copperfield; bleak house; great expectationSocial criticism; humor; childrenRobert browningMy Last Duchess; Pippa passesDramatic monologue; Thomas hardyUnder the greenwood tree; far from the madding crowd; The Return of the Native; mayor of the Casterbridge; Tess; the dynastsInfluenced by Greek Tragedy; coincidence; Modernism (1900-1945)D. . HHHH. LawrenceSons and Lovers; Lady Chatterleys Lover; The Rainbow; The White Peacock; Women in Love; The Plumed Serpent; The Rocking-horse WinnerMen and women relationship; parents and children; social criticism;George Bernard Shaw: Realistic dramatistWidowers Houses; Mrs. Warrens Profession; Arms and the Man; Major Barbara; Heartbreak House; The Apple Cart; Too True to be Good; Pygmalioninfluenced by Ibsen; Nobel Prize Winner; Plays of social problemsJames JoyceThe Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses; Finnegans WakeThe stream of consciousness technique; revolutionized the form and structureVirginia WoolfJacobs Room; Mrs. Dallaway; To the Lighthouse; A Room of ones Own; The Waves; The Years; Between the ActsThe stream of consciousness technique; feministT. S. EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915); The Waste Land (1922); The Hollow Men (1925); Modernism; dramatic monologue; sterility and chaos of the contemporary worldPost-modernism (1945-)William GoldingLord of the FliesfableJohn FowlesThe French Lieutenants WomanAmerican Literature时期作家作品特色Before the independenceBenjamin FranklinAutobiography (1771); Poor Richards Almanac (1733-1758)Determination in self- education; famous maximsRomantic periodRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Nature (1836); The American Scholar (1837); The Divinity School Address (1838); Self-Reliance(1841); The Over-Soul (1841)Transcendentalism; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)Twice Told Tales (1837); The Scarlet Letter (1850); The House of Seven Gables(1851); The Blithedale Romance (1852); The Marble Faun 91860)Innate depravity; guilt; psychological insightHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)Voices of the Night (1839, including Hymn to the Night and A Psalm of LIfe); Ballads and Other Poems (1841, including The Village Blacksmith, The Wreck of the Hesperus, Excelsior); Poems and Slavery (1842); Evangeline (1847); Hiawatha (1855) The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) Conventional style and subjects; didacticism; the best-known American poet during the 19th centuryEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)The Raven; Annabel Lee; The Bells; To Helen; The Cask of Amontillado; The Purloined LetterWord music; love and death; detective storyWalt Whitman (1819-1892)Leave of Grass (855)Free verse; democracy and freedom; natureEmily Dickinson (1830-1886)Poems of Emily Dickinson (1955): Im Nobody; Success is Counted Sweetest; short, fresh and original; RealismMark Twain (1835-1910): humorist and satiristThe Innocents Abroad (1869); The Gilded Age (1873); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876); The Price and the Pauper (1882); Life on the Mississippi (1883); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889); The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson (1893)Humor and satire; local colorism; vernacular; childrens adventures; Stephen Crane (1871-1900)Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893); The Black Riders (1895); The Red Badge of Courage (1895)naturalism; striking images; free verseTheodore Dreiser (1871-1945)Sister Carrie (1900); Jennie Gerhardt (1911); The Titan (1914); The Stoic (1917); The Genius (1815); An American Tragedy 91925)Critical realism; ponderous styleJack London (1876-1916)The Songs of the Wolf (1900); The People of the Abyss (1903); The Call of the Wild (1903); The Sea Wolf (1904); White Fang; The Iron Heel; Martin Eden (1909,masterpiece); Burning Daylight; The Valley of the MoonInfluenced by Spencer, Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx; social critic, ism, ModernismF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)This Side of the Paradise (1920); The Beautiful and the Damned (1922); The Great Gatsby (1925); Tender is the Night (1934); Jazz Age; the Roaring TwentiesRobert Frost (1874-1963)The Pasture; Mending Wall; The Road Not Taken; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningNational poet; simple style with profound meaningsEugene ONeill (1888-1953) Nobel Prize winner of 1936;Beyond the Horizon (1920); The Emperor Jones (1920); Anna Christie (1922); The Hairy Ape (1922); Desire Under the Elms (1925); Strange Interlude (1928); Mourning Becomes Electra (1931); The Iceman Cometh 91939); Long Days Journey into Night (1956)Social significance; sometimes with pessimism and mysticismWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962) Nobel Prize winner of 1950;Satoris (1929); The Sound and the Fury (1929); As I Lay Dying (1930); The Unvanquished (1938); Intruder in the Dust (1948)saga of southern states; stream-of-consciousness technique and multiple point of viewErnest Hemingway (1899-1961) Nobel Prize winner of 1954;The Sun Also Rises (1926); A Farewell to Arms (1929); To Have and Have Not (1933); For Whom the Bells Tolls (1940); The Old Man and the Sea (1952)Lost Generation; Tough guys; grace under pressure; dignity and courage, John Steinbeck (190