Books in the British Literature in Transition series

Exploring a range of forms of literature in the British Isles from 1920 to 1940, this book will interest undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of drama, English literature, gender studies, and politics. Particular attention is paid to the literatures of Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and to women's and queer writing.

This volume traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends as well as enduring transitional shifts in genre, tone, style and thematic preoccupation in British Literature from 1980-2000. The book is of interest to students and academics researching the period, as well as the common reader.

This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a diverse range of authors, texts, genres and movements. It considers innovations in form, emergent identities, changes in attitudes, preoccupations and in the mind itself, local and regional developments, and shifts within the oeuvres of individual authors.

The writing of this period offers fresh insight into cultural reconstruction and the difficulty of writing about cataclysmic events. Through a historical approach that re-instates forgotten writers and re-evaluates well-known names, readers will see the period anew. This book will be a key resource for scholars of twentieth-century British literature.

British literature between 1900 and 1920 has usually been conceived in terms of the unstoppable rise of modernism and the social and cultural upheavals caused by the First World War. Telling a wider story, this volume illuminates the diversity of British literary culture in the century's first two decades.