The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (The New Cambridge History of English Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521820774 ISBN 13: 9780521820776

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period. It analyzes the ways in which conventional literary genres were influenced by the cultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. This work is of major importance to anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context and its relation to the contemporary.

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Book Description:

This new Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-centuryEnglish literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland,Wales and Ireland. The volume also explores the impact of writing from theformer colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the waysin which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the newcultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. This newvolume is a major event for anyone concerned with twentieth-centuryliterature, its cultural context and its relation to the contemporary.

About the Author:

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture. Her publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994/1998), Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997, new edition 2004), and The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007). She has edited or co-edited a number of volumes, including The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (1993/1998), 'Close Up' 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism (1998), Sigmund Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams': New Interdisciplinary Essays (1999), and Mass-Observation as Poetics and Science (2001).

Peter Nicholls is Professor of English at New York University. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing, Modernisms: A Literary Guide, George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism, and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He recently co-edited On Bathos and is currently U.S. editor of Textual Practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521820774
• ISBN 13: 9780521820776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 897
• Editor: Marcus Laura, Nicholls Peter