In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic stru

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly

The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close re

For a long time, people had been schooled to think of modern literature's relationship to politics as indirect or obscure, and often to find the politics of lit

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a di