Chapter 1 Old and Medieval English Literature
1.1 The Anglo-Saxon Period
1.1.1 The Background
1.1.2 Old English Literature
1.2 The Norman Conquest
1.2.1 The Background
1.2.2 Medieval English Literature
1.3 Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 2 The Renaissance
2.1 The Renaissance in Europe
2.2 Humanism and Humanists
2.3 The Background of English Renaissance
2.4 The Renaissance English Writers
2.4.1 William Shakespeare
2.4.2 Francis Bacon
Chapter 3 The Period of English Bourgeois Revolution and Restoration
3.1 Historical Background
3.2 Literary Features and Writers
3.2.1 John Milton
3.2.2 John Bunyan
.Chapter 4 The Enlightenment Period
4.1 Historical Background
4.2 Literary Features and Writers
4.2.1 Daniel Defoe
4.2.2 Jonathan Swift
4.2.3 Henry Fielding
4.2.4 William Blake
4.2.5 Robert Burns
Chapter 5 The Period of Romanticism
5.1 Historical Background
5.2 Literary Features and Writers
5.2.1 William Wordsworth
5.2.2 George Gordon Byron
5.2.3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
5.2.4 John Keats
5.2.5 Jane Austen
Chapter 6 The Victorian Period
6.1 Historical Background
6.2 Literary Trends and Writers
6.2.1 Charles Dickens
6.2.2 William Makepeace Thackeray
6.2.3 The Bronte Sisters
6.2.4 The Brownings
Chapter 7 Twentieth Century Literature
7.1 Historical Background
7.2 Cuhural Background
7.3 Literary Trends and Writers
7.3.1 Thomas Hardy
7.3.2 John Galsworthy
7.3.3 George Bernard Shaw
7.3.4 D.H.Lawrence
7.3.5 Virginia Woolf
7.3.6 James Joyee
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