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 end of the
Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis Simon Armitage Pat Barker
John Betjeman Edward Bond Angela Carter Margaret Drabble Sarah Kane Mark Ravenhill Jean
Rhys Salman Rushdie Sam Selvon Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.
