General Editors' Preface
General Introduction
1 Contexts： History， Politics， Culture
Introduction
British Empire， decline and loss
Censorship
Class structure
Cold War
Counter-culture
Feminism and the role of women
Holocaust
Migrant experience and multiculturalism
Northern Irish 'troubles'
Political protest
Popular culture
Religion
Science and technological innovation
Sex and sexuality
War
Youth culture
2 Texts： Themes， Issues， Concepts
Introduction
Absurdist theatre
Alternative theatre
Anglo-Welsh literature
'Angry young men'
Avant-garde poetry
Black British literature
Campus novel
Class
Concrete poetry
Empire， end of
Englishness
Epic theatre
Gay and lesbian writing
Genre fiction
History
Holocaust literature
Irish literature
'Kitchen sink' drama
Language poetry
London， literary representations of
Magic realism
Marketing of literature
Modemism， legacy of
Movement， the
Nature
New voices in 21 st-century literature
Performance poetry
Political commitment
Postcolonial literature
Postmodern literature
Realism
Regional identity
Scottish literature
Theatre of Cruelty
Underground poetry
Urban experience
Women's writing
3 Criticism： Approaches， Theory， Practice
Introduction
Cultural materialism
Deconstruction
Dialogic theory
Feminist criticism
Gender criticism
Leavisite criticism
Marxist criticism
Narratology
New Criticism
New Historicism
Postcolonial criticism
Postmodernist theory
Poststructuralism
Psychoanalytic criticism
Reader-response criticism
Structuralism
Notes
Chronology
General Index
Index of Works Cited
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