First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author

The influence of 'Englishness' - loss, nostalgia and exile - on the work of twentieth-century writers.

From 1948 to 1951, Britain's foremost 20th-century photographer, Bill Brandt, journeyed into the heart of literary Britain, capturing these brilliant photograph

At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and politic