Contemporary British Literature and Culture (Introductions to 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.