Key Concepts in Contemporary Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the literature and critical debates of the period since 1945. Setting texts in their historical, political and cultural contexts, it demonstrates how literature has dealt with and been shaped by the changing face of the modern world.

STEVE PADLEY is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University. He has held a teaching fellowship at Robinson College, Cambridge, UK, and has also been a Research Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Wolfson College, Cambridge.