Selected Readings in English Literature is to serve as a textbook for Readings in English Literature，a companion-course to History of English Literature.

Chapter Ⅵ
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Section Ⅰ The Historical Background and the Literary Trends in
Early 19th-Century England ：
1．The Historical Background： Economic， Political and Ideological
2．The Literary Trends： The Romantic Movement in English
Literature as Part of the Romantic Movement in European
Literature； Wordsworth， Coleridge， Byron， Shelley and Keats
the Prose Fiction of Walter Scott and Jane Austen； the Different Schools of Prose Writers
Section Ⅱ Romantic Poetry in Early 19th-Century England
1．Wordsworth
2．Coleridge
3．Byron
4．Shelley
5．Keats
Section Ⅲ English Prose in Early 19th Century
1．Prose Fiction： Walter Scott； Jane Austen
2．Significant Writers ofProse in Late 18th and Early 19thCen-
turies： William Godwin， Paine， Cobbett
3．Essayists in Early 19th Century： William Hazlitt， Charles Lamb； Thomas De Quincey
Chapter Ⅶ
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF MIDNINETEENTH CENTURY
Section Ⅰ The Historical Background： Social and Intellectual
Section Ⅱ Chartist Literature
1．A General Survey of Chartist Literature： Different
Literary Genres， Stages of Development
2．Two Major Chartist Poets： Ernest Jones and William
James Linton
3．Gerald Massey and Minor Chartist Poets
4．Chartist Prose Fiction： Thomas Martin Wheeler，
Thomas Frost
Section Ⅲ Democratic Poetry in the Age of Chartism
1．Thomas Hood and His “Song of the Shirt”
2．Ebenezer Elliott the Corn-Law Rhymer
3．Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “The Cry of the Chil-
dren”
Section Ⅳ Major Novelists of Critical Realism in the Mid-19th Century
1．Charles Dickens
2．William Makepeace Thackeray
3．Elizabeth Gaskell
4．Charlotte Bronte
5．Emily Bronte
6．George Eliot
Section Ⅴ Major English Poets of the Mid-19th Century
1．Alfred Tennyson
2．Robert Browning
3．Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough
4．Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
5．Algernon Charles Swlnburne
6．Edward Fitzgerald's Translation of the“ Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Section Ⅵ Non-Fiction Prose in Mid-19th-Century England
1．Thomas Carlyle
2．Thomas Babington Macaulay
3．John Ruskin
4．John Henry Newman
5．John Stuart Mill
6．Thomas Henry Huxley
Section Ⅶ Minor Victorian Novelists： Charles Kingsley，
Benjamin Disraeli， Edward Bulwer-Lytton， Charles
Reade， Wilkie Collins， Anthony Trollope
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Chapter Ⅷ
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LAST
QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY