CP+Modern+Literature

=Modern Era= toc

=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 authors 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 to 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.

=**Historical Background**= 1901-1960 (end date is subject to debate)

Women were given the right to vote in 1918, and full equality to men in 1928. General Strike in May 1926 in which 2 million workers went on strike when there wage was threatened to be lowered and their hours lengthened British Empire loses 1 million soldiers of World War I Winston Churchill leads Britain through WW II, and the Germans bomb England directly Many believed that established institutions led people to the atrocities faced in war. = = =Themes=
 * Perspectivism: Meaning is relative to the point of view
 * Impressionism: Emphasis is put on the process of perception
 * Pesimistic attitudes
 * Questioning what is reality
 * Criticizes traditional values and ways of thinking
 * Loss of hope

=**Style**=
 * Free verse poetry
 * Novels
 * Epiphanies begin to appear in literature (Epiohany- an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being)
 * Speeches
 * Memoirs

=Authors=
 * Algernon Henry Blackwood
 * D. H. Lawrence
 * James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
 * William Butler Yeats
 * Katherine Mansfield
 * T.S. Eliot
 * Siegreid Sassoon
 * Wilfred Owen
 * Saki, aka. H.H. Munro
 * Etty Hillesum

Dystopian Era
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 * Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)
 * Alduous Huxley
 * H. G Wells
 * //1984//
 * //Brave New World//
 * //When the Sleeper Wakes//
 * //Animal Farm//

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