English Literature (book 2)

CONTENTS CRITICAL REALISM IN ENGLAND 6 The Historical and Political Background of the Epoch:The Victorian Age 6 Chartism in Literature 11 The New Literary Trend and Its Characteristic Feutures 13 CHARLES DICKENS 15 Life of Ch.Dickens 15 The Young Journalist 17 Dickens the Novelist 18 The 4 periods in Dickens s Creative Work 20 Dombey and Son 24 Dickens - the First Novelist in the Trend of Critical Realism in English Literature 30 Dickens’s Original Style 30 Dickens’s Characters 31 Dickens and the Children 32 Dickens’s Illusions 32 Dickens’s Contribution to World Literature 33 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 35 Life of Thackeray 35 Literary Work 36 Novels of the Later Period 37 Thackeray’s Contribution to World Literature 38 Vanity Fair 39 Thackeray’s Style 46 Dickens and Thackeray 47 THE END OF THE CENTURY 50 Some Historical Facts 50 The Realistic Traditions in the Works of Prosaic Writers 53 The Poetry of the Period 61 The Publicistics by J.Ruskin 75 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 78 Life of Stevenson 78 Literary Activity and Stevenson’s Dualism 80 OSCAR WILDE 87 Life of O.Wilde 87 Literary Work 88 The Picture of Dorian Gray 90 Ideal Husband 93 Oscar Wilde’s Tales 97 The Selfish Giant 99 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 104 A Short Review of The Epoch 104 The Beginning of the Century- 104 RUDYARD KIPLING 106 Boots 110 The Jungle Book 111 The Cat That Walked by Himself 117 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 127 Bernard Shaw and Art 128 B.Shaw and War 129 B.Shaw’s Language 132 Widower’s Houses 133 Pygmalion 136 HERBERT GEORGE WELLS 141 Life of Wells 141 Works of Wells 143 The War of the Worlds 145 Wells’s Contribution to Literature 150 Relations between the Past, Present and Future as seen by Wells 150 JOHN GOLSWORTHY 153 Life of Golsworthy 153 Literary Work 154 The Man of Property 156 English Literature of the Period Since 1917 till 1945. 164 English Poetry of the Period 168 Dramatic Writers of the Period 176 English Novelists of the Period 179 WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM 184 The Luncheon 191 KATHERINE MANSFIELD 196 A Cup of Tea 199 JAMES JOYCE 207 The Biography and Creative Activity of J.Joyce 207 Ulysses 211 RICHARD ALDINGTON 214 Death of a Hero 215 ARCHIBALD JOSEPH CRONIN 221 The Citadel 222 Post War and Modern Literature 231 English Poetry in the Period since 1945 till Nowadays 232 English Post-War and Modem Drama 237 English Port War and the Newest Novelists 241 AGATHA CHRISTIE 250 The Life and Creative Activity 250 GRAHAM GREENE 254 Life of G.Greene 254 Literary Work 255 The Quiet American 257 JAMES ALDRIDGE 261 IRIS MURDOCH 265 Literary Work. The Complicity of Style 265 The Bell 266 Murdoch Literary Works about Life and Phylosophy ... 268