TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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1) Literary Histories and Encyclopaedias

• John Brannigan, Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 (Palgrave, 2003)
• Ronald Carter and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland (Routledge, 2001)
• Ronald Carter and John McRae, The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing: Britain and Ireland (Routledge, 2004)
• Paolo Bertinetti (a cura di), Storia della letteratura inglese, 2 vols (Einaudi, 2000)
• Franco Marenco (a cura di), Storia della civiltà letteraria inglese, 4 vols (UTET, 1996)
• Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature (Clarendon, 1994, 2000)
• Modern British Literature, ed. Laurie DiMauro, 3 vols (St James Press, 2000)
• The Oxford English Literary History, vol.12 and 13 (Oxford English Literary History S.)

2) Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

• Anthea Trodd, A Reader’s Guide to Edwardian Literature (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991)
• Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (Pimlico, 1990)
• English Poetry of the First World War: Contexts and Themes (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990)

3) Modernism

• The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Michael Levenson (Cambridge UP, 1999)
• Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents, ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni et al. (Edinburgh UP, 1998)
• Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (Macmillan, 1995)
• From Modernism to Post-Modernism: an Anthology, ed. Lawrence Cahoone (Blackwell, 2003)

4) The Fifties to the Nineties 

• John Brannigan, Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 (Palgrave, 2003)
• British Culture of the Postwar: An Introduction to Literature and Society, 1945-1999, ed. Alistair Davies and Alan Sinfield (Routledge, 2000)
• Kenneth Allsop, The Angry Decade (Peter Owen 1958) KVKHELP
• Peter Lewis, The Fifties (Methuen, 1981)
• New Theatre Voices of the Fifties and Sixties – Selections from Encore Magazine, eds Charles Marowitz, Tom Milne, Owen Hale (Methuen, 1981)
• Dan Rebellato, 1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama (Routledge, 1999)
• Arthur Marwick, The Sixties (Oxford UP, 1998)
• Mark Donnelly, Sixties Britain: Culture, Society and Politics (Longman, 2005)
• Patricia Waugh, , Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Background1960-1990 (Oxford UP, 1995)
• Randall Stevenson, 1960-2000: The Last of England (Oxford UP, 2004)
• Paola Colaiacomo e Vittoria Caratozzolo, La Londra dei Beatles (Editori Riuniti, 2000)
• New Theatre Voices of the Seventies – Selections from Encore Magazine, ed. Simon Trussler (Methuen, 1981)
• Daniela Carpi, L’ansia della scrittura: parola e silenzio nella narrativa inglese contemporanea (Liguori, 1995)
• Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (Routledge, 1987)
• British Drama of the 1990s, ed. Bernard Reitz and Mark Berninger (Winter, 2002)

5) The Postmodern

• Modernism/Postmodernism, ed. Peter Brooker (Longman, 1992)
• Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern: A History (Routledge, 1996)
• Remo Ceserani, Raccontare il postmoderno (Bollati Boringhieri, 1997)
• Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism (Routledge, 1992)
• Suzanne Keen, Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2001)
• Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (Routledge, 1987)
• Alison Lee, Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction (Routledge, 1990)
• Brenda K. Marshall, Teaching the Postmodern: Fiction and Theory (Routledge, 1992)
• The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader, ed. Nigel Wheale (Routledge, 1995)
• Le riscritture del postmoderno: percorsi angloamericani, a c. di Ornella de Zordo e Fiorenzo Fantaccini (Palomar, 2002)
• Patricia Waugh, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of self-Conscious Fiction (Routledge, 1988)
• Bruce King, The Oxford English Literary History -  1948-2000 : The Internationalization of English Literature, vol 13 (Oxford English Literary History S.)

6) Postcolonial Literature

• Silvia Albertazzi, Lo sguardo dell’altro: le letterature postcoloniali (Carocci, 2000)
• Ania Loomba, Colonialism, Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998)
• Agostino Lombardo (a cura di), Le orme di Prospero: le nuove letterature di lingua inglese: Africa, Caraibi, Canada (La Nuova Italia, 1995)
• Agostino Lombardo (a cura di), Verso gli Antipodi: le nuove letterature di lingua inglese: India, Australia, Nuova Zelanda (La Nuova Italia, 1995)
• Stefano Manferlotti, Dopo l’impero: romanzo ed etnia in Gran Bretagna (Liguori, 1995)
• Robert C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell, 2001)
• Writing Black Britain, 1948-1998: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, ed. James Procter (Manchester UP, 2000)

7) Twentieth-Century History and Culture

• Fred M. Leventhal (ed.), Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia (Peter Lang, 2002)
• Alessandra Marzola (a cura di), Englishness: percorsi nella cultura britannica del Novecento (Carocci, 1999)
• Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Blackwell, 1989)
• British Culture of the Postwar: An Introduction to Literature and Society, 1945-1999, ed. Alistair Davies and Alan Sinfield (Routledge, 2000)
• Arthur Marwick, British society since 1945 (Penguin, 1996)
• Literature and Culture in Modern Britain, 1956-1999, ed. Gary Day and Cliuve Bloom (Longman, 2000)
• Roberto Bertinetti, Dai Beatles a Blair: la cultura inglese contemporanea (Carocci, 2001)
• Cassell’s Companion to Twentieth Century Britain, ed. Pat Thane (Cassell, 2001)
• The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain, vol. 9: Modern Britain, ed. Boris Ford (Cambridge UP, 1992)
• David Christopher, British Culture: an Introduction (Routledge, 1999)
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, eds Peter Childs and Mike Storry (Routledge, 1999)
• John Oakland, British Civilization a student's dictionary (Routledge, 2003)
• John Oakland, British Civilization : an introduction (Routledge, 2002)
• British cultural studies : geography, nationality, and identity, edited by David Morley and Kevin Robins (Oxford, 2001)

8) Drama

• Peter Buse, Drama+Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama (Manchester UP, 2001)
• Paolo Bertinetti, Il teatro inglese del Novecento (Einaudi, 1992)
• Christopher Innes, Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge UP, 2002)
• The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Playwrights, ed. Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt (Cambridge UP, 2000)
• Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Anchor, 1961)
• Dan Rebellato, 1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama (Routledge, 1999)
• John Russell Taylor, Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama (Methuen, 1969)
• The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, edited by Katherine E. Kelly (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
• British Drama of the 1990s, ed. Bernard Reitz and Mark Berninger (Winter, 2002)
• Cristopher Morash, A history of Irish theatre, 1601-2000 (CUP, 2002)

9) Poetry

• Peter Childs, The Twentieth Century in Poetry: A Critical Survey (Routledge, 1999)
• Simon Featherstone, War Poetry: An Introductory Reader (Routledge, 1995)
• A.C. Partridge, The Language of Modern Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Auden (Deutsch, 1976)
• David Perkins, A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After (Bellknap, Harvard, 1987)
• A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, ed. Neil Roberts (Blackwell, 2001)
• The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, edited by A. David Moody (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
• Eugene O'Brien, Seamus Heaney: Searches for Answers (the University of Michigan Press, 2003)
• British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s : politics and art, edited by Gary Day and Brian Docherty (Macmillan Publishers, 1997)

10) The Novel

• The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad edited by J.H. Stape (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
• David Amigoni, The English Novel and Prose Narrative (Edinburgh UP, 2000)
• R.B. Kershner, The Twentieth-Century Novel: an Introduction (Bedford, 1997)
• The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, ed. Dominic Head (Cambridge UP, 2002)
• On Modern British Fiction, ed. Zachary Leader (Oxford UP, 2002)
• Alison Lee, Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction (Routledge, 1990)
• Neil McEwan, The Survival of the Novel: British Fiction in the Later Twentieth Century (Macmillan, 1985)
• Peter Childs, Contemporary novelists : British fiction, 1970-2003 (Macmillan, 2004)
• Mark Currie, Postmodern Narrative Theory (Macmillan, 1998)
• Frederick R. Karl, A Reader’s Guide to the Contemporary English Novel (Syracuse UP, 2001)
• Paola Splendore, Il ritorno del narratore: voci e strategie del romanzo inglese contemporaneo (Pratiche, 1991)
• Philip Tew, The Contemporary British Novel (Continuum, 2004)
• Patricia Waugh, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of self-Conscious Fiction (Routledge, 1988)
• Knight, Stephen Thomas, Crime fiction, 1800-2000 : detection, death, diversity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
• Brian W. Shaffer, Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 (Blackwell, 2006)
• James F. English, A concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Blackwell, 2005)

11) Women’s Writings 

• Flora Alexander, Contemporary Women Novelists (Arnold, 1989)
• Lucie Armitt, Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic (St Martin’s Press, 2000)
• Jennifer Breen, In her Own Write; Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction (Macmillan, 1990)
• Paulina Palmer, Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Narrative Practice and Feminist Theory (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
• Plotting Change: Contemporary Women’s Fiction, ed. Linda Anderson (Arnold, 1990)