Graham Swift is among the foremost contemporary British writers, having published seven highly acclaimed novels which are widely read by students and general public alike.

This study evaluates Kureishi's contribution to contemporary British fiction; Recently, Kureishi's focus on race has shifted in his novels of new masculinity. This book suggests that this shift from race toexplorations of masculinity does not mark a new direction in Kureishi's work, but reinforces one of his central preoccupations.

This new edition of Sally Ledger's study on Henrik Ibsen includes a renewed bibliography and an expanded critical evaluation. Ledger's book traces the theatrical evolution of his plays as well as considering his impact on late-Victorian London, his response to the `woman question', his anticipation of Freudian psychology and his debt to Darwinism.

Providing an introduction to the whole range of Ian McEwan's work, examining his novels, short stories and screenplays, this title draws on McEwan's obsessions with childhood and the body, with regression and abjection, showing how these are deployed to raise disturbing political questions about gender, power, pleasure and narrative.

The book shows the variety of practice within the Imagist group, and shifts the focus from seeing Imagism purely as the creation of Ezra Pound, by granting a much stronger focus to often overlooked figures such as Amy Lowell, F.S.

The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. Steven Connor is a foremost scholar of modern literature, and his book traces the leading concerns of Joyce's work with language, sexual and cultural identity, and the transforming experiences of modernity, and considers the relations between Joyce andpostmodernity.

There are more detailed analyses of Atwood's most influential writing, from her first novels such as Surfacing and The Edible Woman, through the works that ensured her international reputation such as The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, to her most recent work, Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake.

Margaret Drabble is a writer whose subject matter and technique have developed profoundly since the early sixties: this book draws together the different aspects of her narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events.