A Short History Of English Litterature 2 Liu Bingshan by Liu Bingshan 刘炳善 9787215045385, 7215045382 instant download after payment.

This Short History of English Literature is a book for beginners who know little about English literature but who want to get some rudimentary knowledge about its history. The question which I have been considering during the compilation and revision of my book is how to make it useful and easily accessible to Chinese students. Such a purpose determines the way in which the book is made. I have tried to gather together, within the scope of such a short work , those materials which I deem necessary for beginners and rewrite them in simple English for easier understanding. In doing so, I have followed the examples of popularizers of literary history like John Macy, Lafcadio Heam and our forerunners in this field: the late Professors Fan Cunzhong, Chen Jia ( both of Nanjing University) , Dai Liuling ( of Zhongshan University, Guangzhou) , and Wang Zuoliang ( of Beijing Foreign Languages University). 

This textbook was originally compiled for the students of English language in the provincial universities and normal colleges in our country. Efforts have been made to apply the basic views of Marxism, mainly those of historical materialism, in tracing the historical development of English literature. Each literary period is introduced first by a brief comment on its social, political and ideological conditions, and by a summary of the prevailing literary trends and schools of the time, but emphasis is laid on the description of the lives and careers of the great and major writers, especially on the analysis of their representative works, whereas the less important authors and those writers whose works are out of the reach of our students for the time being are merely mentioned in passing or even omitted altogether. So the book is far from all-embracing. I call it a short history because it is short of many things which appear in those profound works on English literature written by learned scholars.