Preface xxi
Editors and Contributors, Seventh Edition xxiii
Abbreviations xxviii
Note to the Reader xxix
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Introductory essays
Literary Culture and the Novel in the New Millennium 1
Cultures of Reading 9
Black British Literature 16
Children's Literature 23
A–Z 33
Appendix 1: Chronology 1099
Appendix 2: Poets Laureate 1145
Appendix 3: Children's Laureates 1145
Appendix 4: Literary Awards 1146
Index of New and Heavily Revised Entries by Contributor 1151
