Peter Childs is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire (See profile).
He has published twenty books on literature and culture
post-1900, has written extensively on contemporary fiction, and is
a Fellow of the English Association.
His research specialisms to date include the work of Paul Scott,
Ian McEwan, and E. M. Forster as well as broader interests in
modernism, post-colonial writing, and contemporary fiction.
Currently he is working on a monograph for Manchester University
Press on Julian Barnes and a chronological guide to modernist
literature for Continuum.
Select Publications
An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory, Peter Childs
and Patrick Williams, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1996.
British Cultural Identities, eds Mike Storry and Peter
Childs, London: Routledge, 1997.
The Twentieth Century in Poetry, London: Routledge,
1998.
Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: History and Division, ELS
Studies series, Victoria: University of British Columbia,
1998.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, eds Peter
Childs and Mike Storry, London: Routledge, 1999.
Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature, ed. Peter
Childs, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Modernism (New Critical Idiom Series) , London: Routledge,
2000.
Reading Fiction: Opening the Text, London: Palgrave,
2001.
British Cultural Identities, 2nd edition, eds Mike Storry
and Peter Childs, London: Routledge, 2002.
A Sourcebook on A Passage to India, ed. Peter Childs,
London: Routledge, 2002.
Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction 1970-2003, London:
Palgrave, 2004.
The Fiction of Ian McEwan, ed. Peter Childs, London:
Palgrave, 2005.
The Routledge Guide to Modern Literary Terms, London:
Routledge, ed. Peter Childs, 2005.
Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love, London: Routledge, 2006.
Texts, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Modernism and the Postcolonial, London: Continuum,
2007.
British Cultural Identities, 3rd edition, eds Mike Storry
and Peter Childs, London: Routledge, 2008.
Modernism (New Critical Idiom Series) , 2nd edition,
London: Routledge, 2008.