Sito Web Twentieth-Century English Literature
Bibliography
(All the volumes listed here are available in the Department’s Library, apart
from those marked *)
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)
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)
From Modernism to Post-Modernism: an Anthology, ed. Lawrence Cahoone
(Blackwell, 2003)
Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents, ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni
et al. (Edinburgh UP, 1998)
Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (Macmillan, 1995)
4) The Fifties and Sixties
John Brannigan, Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000
(Palgrave, 2003)
*Kenneth Allsop, The Angry Decade (Peter Owen 1958)
*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)
Arthur Marwick, The Sixties (Oxford UP, 1998)
*Patricia Waugh, Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Background,
1960-1990 (Oxford UP, 1995)
*Paola Colaiacomo e Vittoria Caratozzolo, La Londra dei Beatles (Editori Riuniti,
1996)
Randall Stevenson, 1960-2000: The Last of England (Oxford UP 2004)
British Culture of the Postwar: An Introduction to Literature and Society, 19451999, ed. Alistair Davies and Alan Sinfield (Routledge, 2000)
Dan Rebellato, 1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama
(Routledge, 1999)
5) From the Seventies to the Nineties
John Brannigan, Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000
(Palgrave, 2003)
British Drama of the 1990s, ed. Bernard Reitz and Mark Berninger (Winter,
2002)
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)
Randall Stevenson, 1960-2000: The Last of England (Oxford UP, 2004)
6) The Postmodern
Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern: A History (Routledge, 1996)
Modernism/Postmodernism, ed. Peter Brooker (Longman, 1992)
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)
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)
7) 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)
8) 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)
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)
9) Drama
British Drama of the 1990s, ed. Bernard Reitz and Mark Berninger (Winter,
2002)
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)
Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Anchor, 1961)
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Playwrights, ed. Elaine Aston and
Janelle Reinelt (Cambridge UP, 2000)
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)
10) 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)
11) The Novel
*David Amigoni, The English Novel and Prose Narrative (Edinburgh UP, 2000)
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, ed. Dominic Head
(Cambridge UP, 2002)
Mark Currie, Postmodsern Narrative Theory (Macmillan, 1998)
Frederick R. Karl, A Reader’s Guide to the Contemporary English Novel
(Syracuse UP, 2001)
R.B. Kershner, The Twentieth-Century Novel: an Introduction (Bedford, 1997)
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)
On Modern British Fiction, ed. Zachary Leader (Oxford UP, 2002)
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)
12) 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)
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Playwrights, ed. Elaine Aston and
Janelle Reinelt (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Paulina Palmer, Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Narrative Practice and
Feminist Theory (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
Plotting Change: Contemporary Women’sa Fiction, ed. Linda Anderson (Arnold,
1990)
Websites
General
The Guardian: Books and Authors
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/0,6110,94875,00.html
BBC Radio 4: Audio Interviews with Authors
(with Real Player)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/professions/writers.shtml
Voice of the Shuttle: Modern British and american Authors
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2747
Voice of the Shuttle: Contemporary British and american Authors
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2741
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_joseph_conrad.html
T.S. Eliot
Exploring The Waste Land
http://world.std.com/%7Eraparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html
The Wasteland (Text and Commentary)
http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com
Seamus Heaney
http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney-cov.html/
James Joyce
On Ulysses
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/index.html
Sarah Kane
General website
http://www.iainfisher.com/kane.html
Obituary in British Theatre Guide
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/articles/070399.htm
Hanif Kureishi
Official Website
http://www.hanifkureishi.com
Kureishi Website (Emory University, US)
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kureishi.html
Harold Pinter:
Official webite:
http://www.haroldpinter.org/home/index.shtml/
Audio Interview
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2045367.stm/
Salman Rushdie
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/rushdie.htm/
Zadie Smith
A Conversation with Zadie Smith
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0700/smith/interview.html
British Council Authors Page on Zadie Smith
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth257
Tom Stoppard:
Audio
Interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/playlists/2002aprjun/johntusat0216.shtml/
Jeanette Winterson
Official website:
http://w1.181.telia.com/~u18114424/