Includes bibliographical references (p. 806-841) and index.
Contents:
Ending the century: literature and digital technology / Roger Luckhurst. 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.
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