The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England?

Critics have scarcely begun to write about the development of English literature at the end of the twentieth century. In this volume, Stevenson lucidly and engagingly examines the full range of contemporary writing in England, along with the literary, intellectual, and historical movements which shaped it. The result is a fascinating account not only of individual writers and texts, but of the whole imagination of a period we have just lived through but barely begun to understand.