Edited by Jenny Stringer
Over 3,200 entries
This Companion examines English-language writers and writing throughout the twentieth century, in all major genres and from all around the world. All the great literary figures are included, whether American or Australian, British, Irish, or Indian, African or Canadian or Caribbean, among them Samuel Beckett, Edith Wharton, Patrick White, T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Wole Soyinka, Sylvia Plath, as well as a wealth of less obviously canonical writers, from Anaïs Nin to L. M. Montgomery, Bob Dylan to Terry Pratchett. Fiction, plays, poetry, and a whole range of non-fictional writing are explored; also included are entries on literary movements, periodicals, and over 400 individual works.
This is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to modern (and postmodern) literature in English.
Jenny Stringer was Margaret Drabble's assistant editor on The Oxford Companion to English Literature, was co-editor of The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, and has contributed to a number of reference works.
ISBN: 0192122711
Publishing history: first published 1996
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