About the Book: Orwell to the Present, Literature in England, 1945 2000
This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of
the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar
period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history,
and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of
Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new maps of
English culture and society.
Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945 2000 combines original
readings of familiar texts with wide ranging explorations of the principal
themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the