Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edit

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about

British Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People's War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in lit

The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and soci

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past