1.1 General Introduction 1.2 Literariness 1.3 Periods of British Literature 1.4 Renaissance 1.5 Rhyme and Rhythm 1.6 Elizabethan Poetry 1.7 William Shakespeare and His Sonnet 18 1.8 Edmund Spenser and His Sonnet 75 2.1 Introduction to drama 2.2 Shakespeare's Time 2.3 Shakespeare's Predecessors 2.4 Shakespeare's Life 2.5 Shakespeare's Plays 2.6 The Merchant of Venice 2.7 Who is the Merchant of Venice 2.8 Love and Friendship in the Merchant of Venice 2.9 Shylock 3.1 English Revolution 3.2 Milton's Life 3.3 Paradise Lost 3.4 The Image of Satan 3.5 Neoclassicism 3.6 Alexander Pope 3.7 An Essay on Criticism 4.1 The Rise of Novel 4.2 Social Background of the 18th Century 4.3 Features and Fathers 4.4 Daniel Defoe 4.5 Robinson Crusoe 4.6 A Close Reading of Chapter 4 of Robinson Crusoe 4.7 Samuel Richardson and Pamela 4.8 Henry Fielding 4.9 Tom Jones 5.1 Introduction to Romanticism 5.2 Blake and Chimney Sweeper 1 5.3 Chimney Sweeper 2 5.4 Robert Burns 5.5 William Wordsworth 5.6 Daffodils 5.7 Lucy 5.8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5.9 Kubla Khan 6.1 Introduction to Byron 6.2 Don Juan and Byronic Hero 6.3 Shelley 6.4 Ode to the West Wind 6.5 Keats and his Works 6.6 Ode to the Grecian urn 7.1 Historical Background 7.2 Women's Problems and Female Writers 7.3 Jane Austen 7.4 Pride and Prejudice 7.5 Bronte Sisters 7.6 Jane Eyre 7.7 George Eliot and Middlemarch 7.8 Crazy Women and Angels in the House 7.9 Realistic, Gothic and Science Fiction 7.10 Mary Shelley and Frankenstein 8.1 Introduction to Realism 8.2 Charles Dickens 8.3 Social Criticism in Dickens 8.4 Thackeray 8.5 Vanity Fair 8.6 Thomas Hardy 8.7 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 8.8 Oscar Wilde 8.9 George Bernard Shaw 9.1 Introduction to the Victorian Poets 9.2 Tennyson's Life 9.3 Tennyson's Creation 9.4 Break, Break, Break 9.5 Crossing the Bar 9.6 Robert Browning 9.7 My Last Duchess 10.1 Introduction to Modernism 10.2 William Butler Yeats 10.3 Down by the Sally Gardens 10.4 The Second Coming 10.5 T. S. Eliot 10.6 The Waste Land 10.7 Reading the Beginning of The Waste Land 10.8 A Survey of Modern Novelists 10.9 Mrs. Dalloway