In the future will there be a literary history of England, or will it be an English-language literary history? This volume covers colonial, postcolonial and immigrant writers since 1948.

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. But as the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of knowledge about this phenomenon that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic...

Covering a full range of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish literature, this title traces the development of writing during the 20th century. It also looks at how the advent of new technologies - such as radio and television - has shaped literary patterns over the years.

Concentrating on the work of Sassoon, Graves, Blunden, Owen and David Jones, this book examines the way literature remembered, conventionalized and mythologized life on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918.