《英国的没落？》的作者是英国爱丁堡大学英国文学、语言和文化系的兰德尔·史蒂文森(Randall Stevenson)教授，与传统的文学史不同，《英国的没落？》关注的焦点是这一历史时期的文化背景，分为“历史”、“诗歌”、“戏剧”和“小说”四大部分。

本书关注的焦点是1960-2000年这一历史时期的文化背景，分历史、诗歌、戏剧和小说四大部分，总结和归纳了20世纪最后40年英国文学的主要流派和特点，是对当代英国文学感兴趣的读者的首选读物。

General Editor's Preface

List of Figures

A Note on References

Introduction: Last Things First

Part Ⅰ Histories

1. 'Gleaming Twilight': Literature, Culture, and Society

2. A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions

Ⅰ. The End of the Modern

Ⅱ. Modernist and Other Legacies

3. An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors

4. A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade

Ⅰ. The More Common Reader

Ⅱ. Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature

Part Ⅱ Poetry

5. Movement or Revival: The Late r95os to the 1980s

6. Counter-movements and Modernist Memories:1960 to the 1980s

7. Politics and Postmodernism: The Late I970s to 2000

8. Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for 'This Unpopular Art'

Part Ⅲ Drama

9. A Public Art Form: The Late 1950s to the 1970s

10. Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968

11. 'Real Revolutionaries': Politics and the Margins

12. Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism

13. Discovering the Body

14. Revolution, Television, Subsidy

Part Ⅳ Narrative

15. To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s

16. A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s

17. Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000

18. 'Double Lives': Women's Writing and Gender Difference

19. 'The Century of Strangers': Travellers and Migrants

20. Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions

Author Bibliographies

Suggestions for Further Reading

Works Cited

Index