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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature

Series The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, Volume 1

Edited by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls

Publication Date 2004

Hardback ISBN-10
0521820774

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521820776

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521820776

Overview

This new 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 modernisation that characterise 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.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls

Writing modernity

The emerging avant-garde

Modernism and its aftermath, 1918–1945

Post-war cultures, 1945–1970

Towards the millennium, 1970–2000

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