A comprehensive, accessible and lucid coverage of major issues and key figures in modern and contemporary British literature.

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about

Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalis

The essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of write

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past