The Cambridge History Of Twentieth-century English Literature (the New Cambridge History Of English Literature)

the cambridge history of TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE This new Cambridge History is the first major history of twentiethcentury 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. 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. Laura Marcus is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, and co-director of its Centre for Modernist Studies. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture. Her publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice (1994/8) and Virginia Woolf (1997/2004), and, as editor, Sigmund Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’: New Interdisciplinary Essays (1999) and Close Up  –: Cinema and Modernism (1998). Peter Nicholls is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Sussex, and co-director of its Centre for Modernist Studies. He is the editor of Textual Practice. He is the author of Politics, Economics and Writing: A Study of Ezra Pound’s ‘Cantos’ (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995) and of many articles and essays on twentieth-century literature and theory. He has recently co-edited Ruskin and Modernism (2001). Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 the new cambridge history of ENGLISH LITERATURE The New Cambridge History of English Literature is a programme of reference works designed to offer a broad synthesis and contextual survey of the history of English literature through the major periods of its development. The organisation of each volume reflects the particular characteristics of the period covered, within a general commitment to providing an accessible narrative history through a linked sequence of essays by internationally renowned scholars. The History is designed to accommodate the range of insights and fresh perspectives brought by new approaches to the subject, without losing sight of the need for essential exposition and information. The volumes include valuable reference features, including extensive bibliographies and a full index. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature edited by david wallace The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature edited by david loewenstein and janel mueller The Cambridge History of English Literature  –  edited by john richetti The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature edited by laura marcus and peter nicholls In preparation The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literatur