Lecture 1 Geoffrey Chaucer（1343——1400）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A:The General Prologue ofThe CanterburyTalesText B:The Prologue of "The Wife of Bath'sTale"3. Assigned readingsLecture 2 Christopher Marlowe（1564——1593 ）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: Dr. Faustus, Scene 3Text B: Dr. Faustus, Scene 13 &The Epilogue3. Assigned readingsLecture 3 William Shakespeare（1564——1616）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1Text B: Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 23. Assigned readingsLecture 4 John Dnne（1572——1631）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A:The Sun RisingText B:Holy Sonnets, 143. Assigned readingsLecture 5 John Milton（1608——1674）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A. When I Consider How My Light Is SpentText B. Paradise Lost, Book 13. Assigned readingLecture 6 Alexander Pope（1688——1744）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A. An excerpt from An Essay on CriticismText B. An excerpt from An Essay on Man3. Assigned readingsLecture 7 Daniel Defoe（1660——1731）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A. An excerpt from Chapter 4 of Robinson CrusoeText B. Excerpts from Chapters 14 and 15 of Robinson Crusoe3. Assigned readingLecture 8 Jonathan Swift（1667——-1745}1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Gulliver'sTravelsText B. A Modest Proposal3. Assigned readingLecture 9 Henry Fielding（1707——1754）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: Chapter 8 of Book 4, Vol. 1 ofThe History ofTom Jones, a FoundlingText B: Chapter 1 of Book 14, Vol. 2 ofThe History ofTom Jones, a Foundling3. Assigned readingLecture 10 William Blake（1757——1827）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A:The Chimney Sweeper （from Songs of Innocence）Text B:The Chimney Sweeper （from Songs of Experience）3. Assigned readingsLecture 11 William Wordsworth（1770——1850） and SamuelTaylor Coleridge（1772——1834）1. Background questions2. Selected reading 1Text A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud3. Selected reading 2Text B. Kubla Khan4. Assigned readingsLecture 12 Lord Byron（1788——1827）, Percy Bysshe Shelley（1792——1822）, and John Keats（1795——1821）1. Background questions2. Selected reading 1Text A: Man fred, Act 33. Selected reading 2Text B: OdeToThe West Wind4. Selected reading 3Text C: OdeTo a Grecian Urn5. Assigned readingsLecture 13 Jane Austen（1775——1817）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A. Volume 1, Chapter 1 of Pride and PrejudiceText B. Volume 3, Chapter 14 of Pride and Prejudice3. Assigned readingLecture 14 William MakepeaceThackeray（1811——1863）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: Chapter 1 "Chiswick Mall" of Vanity FairText B. An excerpt from Chapter 36 "HowTo Live Well on Nothing a Year" of Vanity Fair3. Assigned readingsLecture 15 Charles Dickens（1812——1870）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: An excerpt from Chapter 4 of David Copper fieldText B: Chapter 3 of OliverTwist3. Assigned readingLecture 16 Charlette Bronte（1816——1855） and Emily Bronte（1818 m1848）1. Background questions2. Selected readings 1Text A: An excerpt from Chapter 14 of Jane EyreText B: An excerpt from Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre3. Selected readings 2Text C: An excerpt from Chapter 9 of Wuthering HeightsText D: An excerpt from Chapter 15 of Wuthering Heights4. Assigned readingsLecture 17 AlfredTennyson（1809——1892） and Robert Browning（1812——1889）1. Background questions2. Selected readings 1Text A: CrossingThe BarText B: Ulysses3. Selected reading 2Text C: My Last Duchess4. Assigned readingsLecture 18 Thomas Hardy（1840——1928）1. Background questions2. Selected readingsText A: An excerpt from Chapter 19 ofTess ofThe D'UrbervillesText B: Excerpts from Chapter 42 and Chapter 43 ofTess ofThe D'Urbervilles3. Assigned readings