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The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature / edited by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Cambridge history of English literature
- The new Cambridge history of English literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 886 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- This Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the ways in which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the new cultural technologies of radio, cinema, and television. In providing an authoritative narrative of literary and cultural production across the century, this History acknowledges the claims for innovation and modernization that chracterise the beginning of the period. At the same time, it attends analytically to the more profound patterns of continuity and development which avant-garde tendencies characteristically underplay. Containing all the virtues of a Cambridge History, this new volume is a major event for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context, and its relation to the contemporary.
- Contents:
- Science and knowledge at the beginning of the twentieth century: versions of the modern Englightenment / Patrick Parrinder
- The Victorian fin de siècle and decadence / Regenia Gagnier
- Empire and modern writing / Elleke Boehmer
- The Gender of modernity / Ann L. Ardis
- Edwardians to Georgians / Robert L. Caserio
- The Avant-garde, bohemia and mainstream culture / Tyrus Miller
- 'Our London, my London, your London': the Modernist moment in the metropolis / Peter Brooker
- Futurism, literature and the market / Paul Edwards
- Literature and World War I / Vincent Sherry
- Trauma and war memory / Deborah Parsons / The Time-mind of the twenties / Michael Levenson
- Modern life: fiction and satire / David Bradshaw
- Modernist poetry and poetics / Ronald Bush
- Modernity and myth / Steven Connor
- Psychoanalysis and literature / Lyndsey Stonebridge
- Biography and autobiography / Max Saunders
- 'Speed, violence, women, America': popular fictions / David Glover
- Theatre and drama between the wars / Maggie B. Gale
- Literature and cinema / Laura Marcus
- The Thirties: politics, authority, perspective / Rod Mengham
- Literary criticism and cultural politics / David Ayers
- Surrealism in England / Peter Nicholls
- World War II: contested Europe / Adam Piette
- World War II: the city in ruins / Michael North
- Culture, class and education / Ken Hirschkop
- Post-war broadcast drama / Keith Williams
- Drama and the new theatre companies / Trevor R. Griffiths
- Modernism and anti-modernism in British poetry / Keith Tuma, Nate Dorward
- Nation, region, place: devolving cultures / Morag Shiach
- The Sixties: realism and experiment / John Lucas
- 'Voyaging in': colonialism and migration / Susheila Nasta
- The Seventies and the cult of culture / Tim Armstrong
- Feminism and writing: the politics of culture / Patricia Waugh
- The half-lives of literary fictions: genre fictions in the late twentieth century / Scott McCracken
- Theatre and politics / Simon Shepherd
- Irish literature: tradition and modernity / Ronan McDonald
- Scottish literature: second renaissance / Gerard Carruthers
- Towards devolution: new Welsh writing / Jane Aaron
- British-Jewish writing and the turn towards diaspora / Bryan Cheyette
- Fiction and postmodernity / Julian Murphet
- Postcolonial fictions / Tim Woods
- Writing lives / Alison Light
- Poetry after 1970 / Peter Middleton
- Ending the century: literature and digital technology / Roger Luckhurst.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139053884 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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