《英国文学选读新编·20世纪卷》是一部在新的社会文化历史语境下编写的供英语专业高年级本科生或研究生使用的教材，也可作为文学研究者的参考书。

全书共分为八章：诞生期的现代主义文学、高潮期的现代主义文学、新戏剧、后现代主义小说、运动派及其后的诗歌、荒诞派戏剧、女性文学、少数族裔文学，较全面系统地反映了20世纪英国文学的精髓。本书每章都有概述和作家作品选读两大部分。概述部分注重历史梳理和文学概念厘清；作家作品部分则主要是针对重要文学流派及其代表作家作品选材。

Chapter 1 The Birth of Modernism

 1.Introduction

 2.Thomas Hardy(1840--1928)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned reading

 3.Joseph Conrad(1857--1924)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

 4.D.H.Lawrence(1885--1930)

4.1 Presentation topics

4.2 Selected reading

4.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 2 High Modernism

 1.Introduction

 2.W.B.Yeats(1865--1939)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned reading

 3.Virginia Woolf(1882--1941)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

 4.James Joyce(1882--1941)

4.1 Presentation topics

4.2 Selected reading

4.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 3 The New Drama

 1.Introduction

 2.George Bernard Shaw(1856--1950)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned reading

 3.John Galsworthy(1867 1933)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 4 Postmodernist Fiction

 1.Introduction

 2.John Fowles(1926--2005)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned reading

 3.Anthony Burgess(1917--1993)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 5 The Movement and After

 t.Introduction

 2.Philip Larkin(1922--1985)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned.reading

 3.Ted Hughes(1930--1998)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

 4.Seamus Heaney(1939-- )

4.1 Presentation topics

4.2 Selected reading

4.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 6 The Theatre of the Absurd

 1.Introduction

 2.Samuel Beckett(1906--1989)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned reading

 3.Harold Pinter(1930--2008)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

 4.Tom Stoppard(1937-- )

4.1 Presentation topics

4.2 Selected reading

4.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 7 Women's Literature

 1.Introduction

 2.Jean Rhys(1890--1979)

2.1 Presentation topics

2.2 Selected reading

2.3 Assigned reading

 3.Edith Sitwell(1887--1964)

3.1 Presentation topics

3.2 Selected reading

3.3 Assigned reading

 4.Doris Lessing(1919-- )

4.1 Presentation topics

4.2 Selected reading

4.3 Assigned reading

Chapter 8 Ethnic Literature

 1.Introduction

 2.Kazuo Ishiguro(1954-- )

2.1 Presentation Topics

2.2 Selected Reading

2.3 Assigned Reading

 3.V.S.Naipaul(1932-- )

3.1 Presentation Topics

3.2 Selected Reading

3.3 Assigned Reading