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1、SelectedReadingsinEnglishandAmericanLiteratureLecture1AnIntroductiontoOldandMedievalEnglishLiteraturePeriodsofEnglishLiterature450-1066OldEnglish(orAnglo-Saxon)Period1066-1500MiddleEnglishPeriod1500-1660TheRenaissance(orEarlyModern)1558-1603ElizabethanAge1603-1625JacobeanAge1625-1649
2、CarolineAge1649-1660CommonwealthPeriod1660-1785TheNeoclassicalPeriod1660-1700TheRestoration1700-1745TheAugustanAge1745-1785TheAgeofSensibility(orAgeofJohnson)PeriodsofEnglishLiterature1785-1832TheRomanticPeriod1832-1901TheVictorianPeriod1848-1860ThePre-Raphaelites1880-1901Aestheticis
3、mandDecadence1901-1914TheEdwardianPeriod1910-1936TheGeorgianPeriod1914-TheModernPeriod1945-PostmodernismBriefIntroductionofHistory1.RomanBritain(55BC-410AD)JuliusCaesar,thegreatRomangeneral,invadedBritainforthefirsttimein55BCandRomansrulestheCelts,theaboriginalinhabitants,forabout500
4、years.2.TheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(449-1066)About449,Anglo-Saxonsinvadedtheland,drovetheCeltstothenorthandwestanddevelopedtheirownlanguageandculture.In597,PopeGregoryIsentSt.Augustine,thePriorofSt.Andrew'sManasteryinRome,toEnglandtoconverttheheathen/paganEnglishtoChristianity.3.theNormanCo
5、nquest(1066)In1066,WilliamtheConquerordefeatedtheAnglo-SaxonsandbegantoruleEnglandandthenestablishedthefeudalsystem.thetimeperiod:about450to1066;OldEnglishreferstotheAnglo-Saxonlanguage,thebasisofModernEnglish;Anglo-Saxonpoetictradition:bothboldandstrong,mournfulandelegiacinspirit.Ol
6、dEnglishLiteratureTwoGroupsofOldEnglishPoetry1.thereligiousgroup:mailyonbibilicalthemese.g.GenesisA,GenesisB,Exodus<==theOldTestamentTheDreamoftheRood<==theNewTestament2.thesecular/pagan/heathengroup:usu.oralsagawithoutspecificChirstiandoctrinesbutevokingtheAnglo-Saxonsenseoftheharsh
7、nessofcircumstanceandthesadnessofthehumanlote.g.Beowulf,TheWanderer,Deor,TheSeafarer&TheWife'sComplaint.BeowulfatypicalexampleofOldEnglishpoetry;thenationalepicoftheAnglo-Saxons;originallyinoralform,sungbythebards(minstrels)attheendofthe6thC;beingputintothewritingformatthebeginningof
8、the10thCandd
