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2Oth Century Literature. Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra. Prose, poetry, and drama written in English in the UK in the 1900s. . Historical Events. Impact of World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Russian Revolution – Communism (1905-1917). Women’s Suffrage (Since 1902).
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2Oth Century Literature Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra
Prose, poetry, and drama written in English in the UK in the 1900s.
Impact of World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Russian Revolution – Communism (1905-1917) Women’s Suffrage (Since 1902) Spanish Civil War (1936–39) Cold War 1945–1991
Early 20th-Century Novel
Dominated by the effects of World War I and II. Uncertain of the concept of ‘Britishness’. Doubting the principles on which the Victorians had based their social code. Uncertainty and complexity.
John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915) Concerned with the politics of World War I and the Boer War. John Galsworthy (Forsyte Saga, 1906–22) Concerned more about social than political change.
Arnold Benett (The Clayhanger trilogy, 1910–15) Focuses on escape from the Victorian past. H.G. Wells (Kipps, 1905) Moved towards anti-capitalism. E.M.Forster (A Passage to India, 1924) Questions the attitude to the British Empire.
Early 20th-Century Drama
Playwrights questioned society and values Attacked class prejudice Social satires
George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1913) John Galsworthy Strife (1901) and Justice (1910) The Plough and the Stars (1926) Seán O'Casey Hay Fever, 1925; Private Lives, 1930 Noël Coward
Early 20th- Century Poetry
Unfulfilled hopes. Concerned with the realities of Irish politics. Irish mythology and mystic symbolism. Waste and destruction of humanity in 20th-century warfare.
Charlotte Mew ‘The Farmer's Bride’ (1915) Thomas Hardy ‘The Darkling Thrush’ (1901) W B Yeats ‘Easter’ (1916) ‘The war sonnets’ (1914) Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen ‘Counter-Attack’ (1918)
Disillusionment with Victorian era attitudes and conservatism. Influenced by the ideas of Romanticism and Karl Marx's political writings. Impressionism and Cubism, were important inspirations for modernist writers. The rise of imagism and free verse, forms which would dominate English poetry into the twenty-first century.
T.S. Eliot Wrote poetry, criticism, and plays. James Joyce Ulysses, 1922 D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928 Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway, 1925
Scientifically controlled future. The rise of the Nazis in Germany. Political corruption and urban problems The creation of verse drama. Communistideology. Social vice
Brave New World, 1932 Aldous Huxley Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin,1939 Wrote verse drama W H Auden The Power and the Glory, 1940 Graham Greene Animal Farm, 1945 George Orwell An Inspector Calls,1947 J.B. Priestley
Fantasy Fiction Detective Fiction Experimental and philosophical work
J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, 1954 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1963 John Le Carré Experimental and philosophical work Samuel Beckett Malcolm Bradbury The History Man, 1975
Social & Political Dramas Film Scripts Was helped by Television
The Winslow Boy, 1946 Terence Rattigan John Arden Live Like Pigs, 1958 Plenty,1978 David Hare Top Girls, 1982 Caryl Churchill Ryan's Daughter, 1970 Robert Bolt The Singing Detective, 1986 Dennis Potter
Natural Imagery is combined with… Personal viewpoints on the human experience
Not Waving But Drowning, 1957 Stevie Smith Ted Hughes Crow, 1970 OpenedGround, 1998 Seamus Heaney High Windows, 1974 Philip Larkin The Year of the Whale, 1965 George Mackay Brown Collected Poems, 1997 Charles Causley
Post-war women's writing
Contemporary life and women's changing roles within it. Female Sexuality Magic realism Concerned about what the past can teach us. Manipulation of Language and Characterization
Doris Lessing Children of Violence, 1952 Margaret Drabble The Millstone, 1965 Nights at the Circus, 1984 Angela Carter Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985 Jeanette Winterson Howard Brenton The Romans in Britain Lawrence of Arabia, 1962; Dr. Zhivago, 1965 Robert Bolt
