| The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature Contributor(s): Marcus, Laura (Editor), Nicholls, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521820774 ISBN-13: 9780521820776 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $257.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2004045922 |
| Series: New Cambridge History of English Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.89" H x 6.46" W x 9.32" (3.02 lbs) 897 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nicholls, Peter: - 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.Marcus, Laura: - 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). |