Part �� British Literature and Culture Introduction Chapter 1 From the 5th Century to the 15th Century The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Ages 1. 1 From the Anglo-Saxon Era to the Norman Conquest An Introduction to Beowulf Beowulf 1.2 From the Norman Conquest to the End of the 15th Century Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400) The Canterbury Tales Chapter 2 The 16th Century The Renaissance and the Reign of Elizabeth �� 2.1 The Renaissance and the Reformation 2.2 The Rise of Elizabeth �� to Sovereignty 2.3 Renaissance Literature Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) Sonnet 18 Hamlet Chapter 3 The 17th Century The Bourgeois Revolution and the Early Enlightenment 3.1 The Bourgeois Revolution 3.2 The Early Enlightenment 3.3 Representative Writers and Works King James Bible Genesis Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) of Studies Thomas Hobbes (1588- 1679) Leviathan John Locke (1632- 1704) Two Treatises of Government Chapter 4 From 1700 to 1789 The Industrial Revolution and the Age of Reason 4.1 The Industrial Revolution and Imperial Expansion 4.2 The Age of Reason 4.3 Representative Writers and Works Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) An Essay on Man Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) A Modest Proposal Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) The Royal Exchange ���� Part �� American Literature and Culture