Chapter One English Literature in the Anglo - Saxon Period
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Poetry
Section Four The Prose
Chapter Two English Literature in the Medieval Period
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Poetry
Section Four The Prose
Section Five The Drama
Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Poetry
Section Four The Prose
Section Five The Drama
Chapter Four English Literature m the Seventeenth Century
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Metaphysical Poets and the Cavalier Poets
Section Four John Milton
Section Five John Bunyan
Section Six The Restoration Drama
Section Seven John Dryden
Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Poetry
Section Four Essays
Section Five The Fiction
Section Six The Drama
Chapter Six English Literature in the Romantic Age
Section One The Historical　and　Cultural　Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Poetry
Section Four The Novel
Section Five The Prose
Section Six The Drama
Chapter Seven English Literature in the Victorian Age
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The Victorian Poetry
Section Four The Coming of Age of the Novel of Critical Realism
Section Five Several Minor Novelists
Section Six Several Female Novelists
Section Seven The Victorian Prose
Chapter Eight English Literature in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Four The Continuity of the Realistic Novels in the First Two Decades
Section Five The Precursors of the Modernist Novels
Section Six The Summit of the Modernist Novels
Section Seven The Novels of Social Satire
Section Eight The Short Fiction
Section Nine The Irish Dramatic Revival
Chapter Nine English Literature in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Section One The Historical and Cultural Context
Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation
Section Three The　Poetry
Section FourThe Nove
Section Five The Drama
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