The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xiv

• Introduction by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls
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• pp. 1-8

PART ONE - WRITING MODERNITY

• 1 - Science and knowledge at the beginning of the twentieth century: versions of the modern Enlightenment by Patrick Parrinder
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• pp. 9-29

• 2 - The Victorian fin de siècle and Decadence by Regenia Gagnier
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• pp. 30-49

• 3 - Empire and modern writing by Elleke Boehmer
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• pp. 50-60

• 4 - The gender of modernity by Ann L. Ardis
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• pp. 61-80

PART TWO - THE EMERGING AVANT-GARDE

• 5 - Edwardians to Georgians by Robert L. Caserio
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• pp. 81-99

• 6 - The avant-garde, bohemia and mainstream culture by Tyrus Miller
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• pp. 100-116

• 7 - ‘Our London, my London, your London’: the Modernist moment in the metropolis by Peter Brooker
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• pp. 117-131

• 8 - Futurism, literature and the market by Paul Edwards
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• pp. 132-151

• 9 - Literature and World War I by Vincent Sherry
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• pp. 152-172

PART THREE - MODERNISM AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1918–1945

• 10 - Trauma and war memory by Deborah Parsons
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• pp. 173-196

• 11 - The time–mind of the twenties by Michael Levenson
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• pp. 197-217

• 12 - Modern life: fiction and satire by David Bradshaw
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• pp. 218-231

• 13 - Modernist poetry and poetics by Ronald Bush
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• pp. 232-250

• 14 - Modernity and myth by Steven Connor
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• pp. 251-268

• 15 - Psychoanalysis and literature by Lyndsey Stonebridge
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• pp. 269-285

• 16 - Biography and autobiography by Max Saunders
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• pp. 286-303

• 17 - ‘Speed, violence, women, America’: popular fictions by David Glover
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• pp. 304-317

• 18 - Theatre and drama between the wars by Maggie B. Gale
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• pp. 318-334

• 19 - Literature and cinema by Laura Marcus
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• pp. 335-358

• 20 - The thirties: politics, authority, perspective by Rod Mengham
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• pp. 359-378

• 21 - Literary criticism and cultural politics by David Ayers
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• pp. 379-395

• 22 - Surrealism in England by Peter Nicholls
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• pp. 396-416

• 23 - World War II: contested Europe by Adam Piette
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• pp. 417-435

• 24 - World War II: the city in ruins by Michael North
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• pp. 436-452

PART FOUR - POST-WAR CULTURES, 1945–1970

• 25 - Culture, class and education by Ken Hirschkop
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• pp. 453-473

• 26 - Post-war broadcast drama by Keith Williams
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• pp. 474-493

• 27 - Drama and the new theatre companies by Trevor R. Griffiths
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• pp. 494-509

• 28 - Modernism and anti-Modernism in British poetry by Keith Tuma and Nate Dorward
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• pp. 510-527

• 29 - Nation, region, place: devolving cultures by Morag Shiach
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• pp. 528-544

• 30 - The sixties: realism and experiment by John Lucas
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• pp. 545-562

• 31 - ‘Voyaging in’: colonialism and migration by Susheila Nasta
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• pp. 563-582

PART FIVE - TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM, 1970–2000

• 32 - The Seventies and the cult of culture by Tim Armstrong
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• pp. 583-599

• 33 - Feminism and writing: the politics of culture by Patricia Waugh
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• pp. 600-617

• 34 - The half-lives of literary fictions: genre fictions in the late twentieth century by Scott McCracken
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• pp. 618-634

• 35 - Theatre and politics by Simon Shepherd
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• pp. 635-652

• 36 - Irish literature: tradition and modernity by Ronan McDonald
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• pp. 653-667

• 37 - Scottish literature: Second Renaissance by Gerard Carruthers
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• pp. 668-684

• 38 - Towards devolution: new Welsh writing by Jane Aaron
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• pp. 685-699

• 39 - British–Jewish Writing and the turn towards diaspora by Bryan Cheyette
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• pp. 700-715

• 40 - Fiction and postmodernity by Julian Murphet
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• pp. 716-735

• 41 - Postcolonial fictions by Tim Woods
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• pp. 736-750

• 42 - Writing lives by Alison Light
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• pp. 751-767

• 43 - Poetry after 1970 by Peter Middleton
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• pp. 768-786

• 44 - Ending the century: literature and digital technology by Roger Luckhurst
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• pp. 787-805

• Bibliography
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• pp. 806-841

• Index
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• pp. 842-885