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Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra
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Prose, poetry, and drama written in English in the UK in the 1900s.
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Impact of World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Women’s Suffrage (Since 1902) Russian Revolution – Communism (1905-1917) Cold War 1945–1991 Spanish Civil War ( 1936–39)
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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.
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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.
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Arnold Benett (The Clayhanger trilogy, 1910–15) Focuses on escape from the Victorian past. Moved towards anti-capitalism. H.G. Wells (Kipps, 1905) Questions the attitude to the British Empire. E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, 1924)
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Playwrights questioned society and values Attacked class prejudice Social satires
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George Bernard ShawPygmalion (1913) John Galsworthy Strife (1901) and Justice (1910) Seán O'Casey The Plough and the Stars (1926) Noël Coward Hay Fever, 1925; Private Lives, 1930
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Unfulfilled hopes. Concerned with the realities of Irish politics. Irish mythology and mystic symbolism. Waste and destruction of humanity in 20th-century warfare.
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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)
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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.
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T.S. Eliot Wrote poetry, criticism, and plays. James Joyce Ulysses, 1922 D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928 Virginia WoolfMrs Dalloway, 1925
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Scientifically controlled future. The rise of the Nazis in Germany. The creation of verse drama. Political corruption and urban problems Social vice Communist ideology.
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Aldous Huxley Brave New World, 1932 Christopher IsherwoodGoodbye to Berlin,1939 W H Auden Graham Greene The Power and the Glory, 1940 Wrote verse drama George Orwell Animal Farm, 1945 J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls,1947
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Fantasy Fiction Detective Fiction Experimental and philosophical work
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J R R TolkienThe Lord of the Rings, 1954 John Le Carré The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1963 Samuel Beckett Malcolm BradburyThe History Man, 1975 Experimental and philosophical work
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Social & Political Dramas Film Scripts Was helped by Television
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Terence Rattigan The Winslow Boy, 1946 John ArdenLive Like Pigs, 1958 David Hare Caryl Churchill Top Girls, 1982 Plenty,1978 Robert Bolt Ryan's Daughter, 1970 Dennis Potter The Singing Detective, 1986
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Natural Imagery is combined with… Personal viewpoints on the human experience
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Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning, 1957 Ted Hughes Crow, 1970 Seamus Heaney Philip Larkin High Windows, 1974 Opened Ground, 1998 George Mackay Brown The Year of the Whale, 1965 Charles Causley Collected Poems, 1997
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Contemporary life and women's changing roles within it. Magic realism Female Sexuality Concerned about what the past can teach us. Manipulation of Language and Characterization
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Doris LessingChildren of Violence, 1952 Margaret DrabbleThe Millstone, 1965 Angela Carter Nights at the Circus, 1984 Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985 Howard BrentonThe Romans in Britain Robert Bolt Lawrence of Arabia, 1962; Dr. Zhivago, 1965
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Fiction novels Criminal Non-Fiction Horror Genre emerged Realist Regional Novels
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Stan BarstowA Kind of Loving, 1960 John BraineRoom at the Top, 1957 Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, 1959 William GoldingLord of the Flies, 1954 Martin AmisDead Babies, 1975 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter
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