Part 1 British Literature
Literary Background Information
Unit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
Unit 2 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet
Sonnet 18
Unit 3 Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731 )
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Unit 4 Romantic Poets
A Red, Red Rose
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She Walks in Beauty
Unit 5 Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Unit 6 Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre
Unit 7 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Great Expectations
Unit 8 Victorian Poets
The Eagle
My Last Duchess
Unit 9 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Unit 10 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Pygmalion
Unit 11 James Joyce (1882-1941)
Araby
Unit 12 Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
A Woman on a Roof
Unit 13 20th-Century British Poets
Unit 14 Kazuo Ishiguro(1954- )
The Remains of the Day
Part 2 American Literature
Literary Background information
Unit 15 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
To Helen
Unit 16 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter
Unit 17 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Self-Reliance
Unit 18 19th-Century American Poets
One's Serf I Sing
O Captain ! My Captain !
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Success Is Counted Sweetest
Unit 19 Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unit 20 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
