Contemporary British Literature and Culture

The guide to contemporary British literature and culture introduces literature and its context since 1979. It includes the work of a wide range of major novelists, poets and playwrights which includes Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson; Mark Ravenhill and Sarah Kane; Carol Ann Duffy and Paul Muldoon; an overview of the cultural and intellectual background including philosophy, politics, technology and visual culture; concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism; key critical approaches to modernism from contemporary critics to the present; a chronology mapping social and political events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resource.

1. Introduction\ 2. Social, Cultural and Intellectual Context \ 3. Contemporary Writing \ 4. Critical Approaches\ 5. Further Resources for Independent Study \ Index