CHAPTER 1
Introduction: The Roots of Modernism – Key Writers and Themes
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
H.G. Wells (1865-1936)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
English War Poets
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
David Jones (1895-1974)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
J.M. Synge (1871-1909)
Sean O' Casey (1880-1964)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
 
Chapter 2
Introduction to the Rise of Modernism and Experimental Narratives
Bloomsbury group (1907-1930)
Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) & Pilgrimage (1915-1938)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)    
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)    139
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
WH Auden (1907-1973)
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
Graham Green (1904-1991)
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
John Masters (1914-1983)
 
CHAPTER 3
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The Movement
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001)
Thom Gunn (1929-2004)
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
Carol Ann Duffy (1955*)
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
Angry Young Men
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
John Osborne (1929-1994)
Arnold Wesker (1932-2016)
John Arden (1930-2012)
Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010)
Peter Shaffer (1926-2016)
Tom Stoppard (1937*)    
Theatre of the Absurd    
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994)    
Jean Genet (1910-1986)
Comedy of menace
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
George Orwell (1903-1950)
William Golding (1911-1993)
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
John Fowles (1926-2005)
JG Ballard (1930-2009)
CAMPUS NOVEl
David Lodge (1935)
Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000)
AS Byatt (1936*)
Angela Carter (1940-1992)
Margaret Drabble (1939*)
Julian Barnes (1946*)
Ian McEwan (1948*)
Martin Amis (1949*)
Peter Ackroyd (1949*)
Graham Swift (1949*)
Hilary Mantel (1952*)