单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,英美国家概况,The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,Unit,8,Literature,The,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,Think about these questions before we start:,Can you say something about the important English novelists,poets or playwrights?,Tell about the,strong features of works by different writers,.,Warming-up Activities,Contents,Early Celtic Literature,Old English Literature 4491066,Latin Literature,Late Medieval Literature,IV,III,Contents,19th Century,Since 1900,Early Modern English Literature,V,VI,Literary Prizes,VIII,VII,Chroniclers and Gildas,Historia Brittonum,Adomnns,Latin Literature,Ulster Cycle,Yr Hengerdd and Y Cynfeirdd,the Red Book of Hergest and the White Book of Rhydderch,Early Celtic Literature,Beowulf,Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,The Dream of the Rood,Old English Literature 4491066,The linguistic diversity of the islands in the medieval period,with each of the languages producing literatures at various times which contributed to the rich variety of artistic production,made British literature distinctive and innovative.,Late Medieval Literature,Gerald of Waless,Anglo-Norman literature,Historia Regum Britanniae,The Roman de Fergus,Late Medieval Literature,Wace,John of Cornwall,Layamon,Berechiah ha-Nakdan,Late Medieval Literature,William Langland,Geoffrey Chaucer,Often regarded as the father of English literature,Chaucer is widely credited as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language,rather than French or Latin.,Marie de France and Julian of Norwich,Barbours,Brus,Late Medieval Literature,Geoffrey Chaucer,father of English literature,Elizabethan and Jacobean eras,The English Renaissance dated from the early 16th century to the early 17th century when the sonnet form and other Italian literary influences arrived in English literature.,Early Modern English Literature,Edmund Spenser,Sir Philip Sidney,Sir Francis Bacon,the utopian novel New Atlantis“Knowledge is Power”,Early Modern English Literature,William Shakespeare,widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language,wrote over 35 plays in several genres,including tragedy,comedy and history.,Early Modern English Literature,William Shakespeares,career encompassed English history and the emerging imperial idea of the 17th century,16601800,Poet Laureate,William Hogarth,English pictorial satirist and editorial cartoonist,Early Modern English Literature,William Congreve,the earliest Irish dramatists of note were,one of the most interesting writers of Restoration comedies,Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan,two of the most successful playwrights on the London stage in the 18th century,Early Modern English Literature,Romanticism,Major political and social changes at the end of the 18th century,particularly the French Revolution,prompted a new breed of writing known as Romanticism.,19th Century English Language Literature,William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,began the trend for bringing emotionalism and introspection to English literature,with a new concentration on the individual and the common man,George Gordon Byron,6th Baron Byron,“second generation”Romantic poet,19th Century English Language Literature,The 19th century novel,Jane Austen,Pride and Prejudice,1813,is often considered the epitome of the romance genre,and other notable works include,Sense and Sensibility,Mansfield Park,Persuasion,and,Emma,.,Mary Shelley,best known for Frankenstein1818,infusing elements of the Gothic novel and Romantic movement.,19th Century English Language Literature,Charles Dickens,the trend for serial publication,Oliver Twist,employing a popular style which would prove accessible to readers of all classes,Great Expectations,A Tale of Two Cities,19th Century English Language Literature,the Bront sisters,Charlottes Jane Eyre,Emilys Wuthering Heights,Penny dreadful publications,an alternative to mainstream works,and were aimed at working class adolescents,introducing the infamous Sweeney Todd,19th Century English Language Literature,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant London-based“consulting detective”,famous for his intellectual prowess,skilful use of astute observation,deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases,H.G.Wells,referred to as“The Father of Science Fiction”,invented a number of themes that are now classic in the science fiction genre,coined the term“time machine”,19th Century English Language Literature,Alfred Tennyson,1st Baron Tennyson,Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,and Matthew Arnold,heavily influenced by the Romantics,but also went off in its own directions.,particularly notable was the development of the dramatic monologue,19th Century English Language Literature,Ireland,Dion Boucicault,George Bernard Shaw,Oscar Wilde,19th Century English Language Literature,Wales,Anglo-Welsh literature is a term used to describe