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The New Cambridge History of English Literature is a programme of reference works designed to offer a broad synthesis and contex-tual survey of the history of English literature through the major periods of its development.
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Aug 16, 2020 · They famously identified over 100 definitions of culture that were in use during the early 20th century across varied academic fields, including history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.
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Oct 9, 2020 · The New Woman became associated with the rise of feminism and the campaign for women’s suffrage, as well as with the rise of consumerism, mass culture, and freer expressions of sexuality that defined the first decades of the 20th century.
Beginnings. The first half of the 19th century for Europe was marked by a number of wars and revolutions, which contributed to an aesthetic "turning away" from the realities of political and social fragmentation, and so facilitated a trend towards Romanticism.
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The 20th century. Writing from 1914 to 1945. Important movements in drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism took shape in the years before, during, and after World War I. The eventful period that followed the war left its imprint upon books of all kinds.
English literature - Modernism, Poetry, Novels: The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium.
More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This Introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres.
