BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE POST-ROMANTICAND VICTORIAN ERAS -- EARLY VICTORIAN LITERATURE: THE AGE OF THE NOVEL -- CHARLES DICKENS -- THACKERAY, GASKELL, AND OTHERS -- THE BRONTËS -- EARLY VICTORIAN VERSE -- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON -- ROBERT BROWNING AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING -- CLOUGH AND ARNOLD -- EARLY VICTORIAN NONFICTION PROSE -- THOMAS CARLYLE -- JOHN RUSKIN -- LATE VICTORIAN LITERATURE -- THE NOVEL -- VERSE -- THE VICTORIAN THEATRE -- OSCAR WILDE -- ARTHUR WING PINERO -- VICTORIAN LITERARY COMEDY -- CHAPTER 2 THE 20TH CENTURY: FROM 1900 TO 1945 -- EDWARDIAN NOVELISTS -- G.K. CHESTERTON -- WRITING FOR THE NEW CENTURY -- JOSEPH CONRAD -- EDWARDIAN PLAYWRIGHTS -- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW -- HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER -- ANGLO-AMERICAN MODERNISM: POUND, LEWIS, LAWRENCE, AND ELIOT -- CELTIC MODERNISM: YEATS, JOYCE, JONES, AND MACDIARMID -- THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR I AND THE INTERWAR PERIOD -- BROOKE AND SASSOON -- ALDOUS HUXLEY -- THE OLD AND NEW GUARD -- VIRGINIA WOOLF -- WOMEN AND MODERNISM -- THE 1930S -- W.H. AUDEN -- ELIZABETH BOWEN -- GEORGE ORWELL -- THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II (1939-45) -- T.S. ELIOT -- EVELYN WAUGH -- CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE AFTER 1945 -- FICTION -- INFLUENTIAL FICTION WRITERS OF THE PERIOD -- KINGSLEY AMIS -- MARTIN AMIS -- JULIAN BARNES -- A.S. BYATT -- WILLIAM GOLDING -- DORIS LESSING -- IAN MCEWAN -- MURIEL SPARK -- POETRY AND NOTABLE POETS -- JOHN BETJEMAN -- SEAMUS HEANEY -- TED HUGHES -- PHILIP LARKIN -- DRAMA -- HAROLD PINTER -- TERENCE RATTIGAN -- TOM STOPPARD -- THE 21ST CENTURY -- EPILOGUE -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE POST-ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN ERAS -- THE 20TH CENTURY: FROM 1900 TO 1945 -- LITERATURE AFTER 1945 -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.