Chapter 1 The Beginning Period of English Literature
Chapter 2 The Glory of Poetry:From Sidney to Pope
Chapter 3 The Golden Age of English Drama
Chapter 4 The Beauty of Prose :From Malory to Pepys
Chapter 5 The Rise of the Novel
Chapter 6 A False World:English Dream from Dryden to Sheridan
Chapter 7 Emotion and Nature in Romantic Poetry
Chapter 8 Female Novelists in 19th-Century England
Chapter 9 Social Images in 19th-Century English Novels
Chapter 10 Satirical Voices and Humanistic Concerns:English Prose in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Chapter 11 Various Moods in 19th-Century English Poetry
Chapter 12 Social Life on the Stage:English Drama from Wilde to O'Casey
Chapter 13 The Erosion of Confidence:Major Novelists in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centruies
Chapter 14 The Unseen Reality;The Stream of Consciousness Novels
Chapter 15 The New Poetry in the 20th Century
Chapter 16 Spiritual Crisis and Moral Tension:20th-Century Novels before 1950
Chapter 17 Despair and Absurdity in Contemporary English Drama
Chapter 18 Diversified Topics in Contemporary English Novels
Chronological Table of Major Writers and Their Impoatant Works
Bibliography
Index
