Introduction

Modern Era Introduction
The Modern Era of British Literature is not a period that consists of literature made today, but is a period of literature between 1901-1960. British Modernism was a time in which many author began to question the world around them, and did not accept traditional ideas presented to them. It is a period marked by the struggles of both World War I and II, and many British authors were looking for a change in the out-of-control world that they lived in. Modernism was a very cerebral time in British Literature that challenged its audience see the world from different perspectives. To fully understand the Modern Era one must first exam the historical context of the time, the themes of the literature, the style of writing, and the different modernist authors and their works.