The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English, edited by Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson and published by Edinburgh University Press in 2006, is a book devoted to the study of the 20th century writers with English as their writing-medium in such countries as England, America, Ireland, Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, and those in the region of the Caribbean Sea. It is a new masterpiece in the history of the 20th century literature of English, integrating academic worth in its content with originality in its form....