Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.

The art of English fiction in the twentieth century / Dorothy J. Hale -- The British Empire and the English modernist novel / Jed Esty -- Realism and rebellion in Edwardian and Georgian fiction / Maria Di Battista -- The Great War in English fiction / Paul Edwards -- Postwar modernism in the 1920s and 1930s : the mammoth in the basement / Rod Mengham -- Regionalism in English fiction between the wars / Matthew Hart -- Ireland and English fiction / Anne Fogarty -- Feminist fiction / Kristin Bluemel -- Working-class fiction across the century / John Fordham -- World War II, the welfare state, and postwar "humanism" / Marina Mackay -- The Windrush generation / Timothy Weiss -- History in fiction / James Acheson and Robert L. Caserio -- Postmodernisms of English fiction / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Detectives and spies / Allan Hepburn -- The post-consensus novel : minority culture, multiculturalism, and transnational comparison / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- An absurd century : varieties of satire / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- The other side of history : fantasy, romance, horror, and science fiction / M. Keith Booker.