Preface to Seventh Edition
Contributors' Biographies
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
1: Hermione Lee: Contemporary Literary Culture
2: Kelvin Everest: Literature and History
3: Benedict Ledent: Black British Literature
4: Michael Rosen: Children's Literature
The Oxford Companion to English Literature A-Z
Chronology
Poets Laureate
Literary Awards
Index of Contributors
Dinah Birch is Professor of English Literature at Liverpool
University. She was previously a fellow at Trinity College, Oxford.
Her works on 19th-century literature include a number of books and
articles on the critic John Ruskin. She writes regularly for the
Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books, and
contributes to arts programmes on radio and television.
Margaret Drabble (editor of the 5th and 6th editions) is a
distinguished novelist and biographer. Her many novels include
Jerusalem the Golden, The Needle's Eye, The Seven Sisters, and The
Sea Lady. She has also written biographies of Arnold Bennett and
Angus Wilson.
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