A comprehensive overview of both modernist and popular British fiction of the first half of the twentieth century.

Examining the work of more than one hundred writers, in a wide variety of genres including detective, spy, gothic, fantasy, comic, and science fiction, this boo

In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural h

The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the orig

How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its afterma