英国文学浩繁宏大,源远流长。20世纪英国文学由于世界局势的激烈动荡所带来的巨大影响而呈现五彩缤纷的繁荣景象。随着我国的改革开放,对20世纪英国文学史的研究愈来愈深入,著述和评介文章也越来越多。但是,由于文学史撰写的难度较大以及时代的接近,为中国学生用英文撰写的系统论述20世纪英国文学史的书还极为鲜见。王丽丽撰写的这部《二十世纪英国文学史》从某种意义上可以说填补了这方面的空白。
《二十世纪英国文学史》在编排上大胆创新,突破了以往编撰文学史的传统,把文学史同历史背景、人物影响、术语解释等有机地结合在一起,使学生能够迅速地深入理解特定历史环境中的作家和作品,汲取文学作品的精髓。书中对作家作品的评论有自己独到的见解,不人云亦云。可以看出作者思路的敏捷以及对学术孜孜不倦的追求。

序言
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part Ⅰ From the End of 19th Century to 1914
Chapter 1 General Introduction
Major Writers in This Period
Novel ists
Chapter 2 Henry James
Chapter 3 George Wells, Arnold Bennett
Chapter 4 John Galsworthy
Chapter 5 Joseph Conrad
Chapter 6 D.H. Lawrence
Poets
Chapter 7 Sir William Watson, Robert Bridges
Chapter 8 A.E. Housman, Arthur Symons
Chapter 9 " W. B. Yeats
Chapter 10 Rudyard Kipling
Chapter 11 John Masefield, John Davidson, G.K.
Chesterton
Chapter 12 Thomas Hardy
Playwrights
Chapter 13 Oscar Wilde
Chapter 14 Bernard Shaw
Chapter 15 John Millington Synge
Some Useful Information and Expl anation of Termsfor Part One
1.Major historical period and social events
2.Important figures and their major works that have great influences the world over
3.Major movements,literary tendencies,terms and some societies or groups
PartⅡFrom 1914 to 1945
Chapter 1 General Introduction
Major Writers in This Period
Novelists
Chapter 2 F.M.Ford
Chapter 3 E.M.Forster
Chapter 4 James Joyce
Chapter 5 Virginia Woolf
Chapter 6 Aldous Huxley.Evelyn Waugh
Chapter 7 George Orwell.Jean Rhys
Chapter 8 Graham Greene
Poets
Chapter 9 T.S.Eliot
Chapter 10 Edith Sitwell,W.H.Auden
Chapter 11 Dylan Thomas
PIaywrights
Chapter 12 Noel Coward
Chapter 13 Sean O'Casey
Part Ⅲ From 1945 to the 1960s
Part Ⅳ From the 1970S to the