Laura Marcus
British literary scholar of modernism, autobiography, and film; Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of New College. Author of influential works including Auto/biographical Discourses, The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period, Virginia Woolf, and Dreams of Modernity.
Books
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1. The Cambridge History Of Twentieth Century English Literature
A comprehensive reference that surveys the evolution of English-language writing across the twentieth century, tracing movements from high modernism to postmodernism and beyond while examining fiction, poetry, drama, and life writing alongside publishing, readership, and media cultures. Through a series of critical essays, it situates literary innovation within shifting historical contexts—including world wars, decolonization, technological change, and transformations of class, gender, and sexuality—while foregrounding regional and global perspectives across Britain and the wider Anglophone world and mapping both canonical figures and emergent voices.
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