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《英国文学简史》原为河南大学外语系英语专业自编教材，1993年，经编著者对《英国文学简史》进行全面修订，交河南人民出版社新修订版本。现为适应新世纪教学需要，根据国内外研究新成果，对《英国文学简史》内容进一步修订，增加第二次世界大战后至20世纪中后期重要诗人，小说家一编，补充插图，并提高印装质量，改为国际流行的大开本，希望能为我国高校的英语教学，有关专业本科生考研以及英语自学者继续作出贡献。
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《英国文学简史》原为河南大学外语系英语专业自编教材，1993年，经编著者对《英国文学简史》进行全面修订，交河南人民出版社新修订版本。现为适应新世纪教学需要，根据国内外研究新成果，对《英国文学简史》内容进一步修订，增加第二次世界大战后至20世纪中后期重要诗人，小说家一编，补充插图，并提高印装质量，改为国际流行的大开本，希望能为我国高校的英语教学，有关专业本科生考研以及英语自学者继续作出贡献。
【作者简介】
刘炳善，河南大学外语学院教授，博士生导师，莎士比亚与英国散文研究中心主任，国际莎士比亚协会会员，中国莎士比亚研究会理事，中国作家协会会员，河南作家协会理事。享受政府特殊津贴专家。英美语言文学专家。主要学术成果有《英汉双解莎士比亚大词典》（河南人民出版社，2002）《英国文学简史》（上海外语教育出版社 1981）《英国散文选》（上海译文出版社 1985）《伊利亚随笔选》（三联书店 1987）《书和画
【目录】
PREFACE TO THE NEW REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
REFERENCES
ILLUSTRATIONS
Part One: Early And Medleval English Literature
Part Two: The English Renaissance
Part Three: The Period Of The English Bourgeois Revolution
Part Four: The Eighteenth Century
Part Five: Romanticism In England
Part Six: English Critical Realism
Part Seven: Prose-Writers And Poets Of The Mid And Late 19th Century
Part Eight: Twentieth Century English Literature
Part Nine： Poets and Novelists Who Wrote Both Before and After The Second World War
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刘炳善的这本英国文学教材是一本英语专业系列教材的经典教材之一。现在这本修订版里面添加了一些黑白的插图，更好地辅助理解。里面是按照编年史对作家进行分类。每一章节开始都是由相应的历史文化背景。内容条理清晰，对于文学初学者来说是再适合不过的啦。各章节都会有一个独立小节是相应时期的流行文体、流派等介绍与分析（其他一些文学教科书很少会把这一部分单独提出来讲，就是融入作家简介或者历史背景的介绍中）。每一个作家都附有相应的作品赏析与文段节选。
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The romances were either recited by professional minstrels or written to be read aloud.But in both cases the audience was usually that of the court or of the castle.The romances had nothing to do with the common people.They were composed for the noble,of the noble,and in most cases by the poets patronized by the noble.
Ⅳ.Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
Le Morte D'Arthur (i.e.the Death of King Arthur) is a collection of stories about King Arthur,translated from French by Sir Thomas Malory.Of Thomas Malory,William Caxton,the printer of the book,writes that he was a knight,and completed Le Morte D'Arthur in 1470,fifteen years before Caxton printed it.In modern times,Malory has been identified with an English country gentleman and soldier,who was a member of Paliament for Warwickshire in 1445, and later fought on the side of Lancastrians in the War of the Roses.In 1450 he was charged with several crimes and sentenced to imprisonment.Le Morte D'Arthur was written in prison,where he spent a great part of the last twenty years of hislife.
King Arthur is a romantic hero,whose original may be traced to an ancient Celtic chieftain Arthur of Wales who led victorious battles against the Saxons.Early Welsh tradition made Arthur into a king of wonders and marvels,and a series of legends about him were fabricated by medieval poets and writers, especially by French romancers, The legends of King Arthur are the foundation of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur.But Malory,in retelling the whole Arthurian story, selected the most interesting parts,such as the adventures of the Knights of the Round Table at Arthur's court,the quest of the Holy Grail (i.e.supposedly the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper),the illicit love affair of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere,the death of Arthur,and the dissolution of the fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table.Malory treated the Arthurian legends in the spirit of medieval knighthood and chivalry, which suited the feudal times when a greatmilitary brotherhood was often established in the house of some great prince or noble lord.
