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Alessia Gelfusa

Created on May 24, 2023

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The Edwardian Age

The World Wars

  • The beginning of the 20th century
  • Imperial expansion
  • America and World War I
  • Red scare and prohibition
  • The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
  • WWII and the atomic bomb

Roaring 20s in America

The USA in the first half of the 20th century (1901-1945)

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • economic boom
  • the fear of Socialism = Red Scare.
  • In 1919 was introduced the prohibition
  • The Great Depression
  • New Deal (1933-1938)
  • America joined the World War II in 1941
  • The Manhattan Project

Modern novel=New Realism

in search of new narrative tecniques that better reproduce the complexity of human mind 1. they refused the chronological order of the events 2. frequent use of interior monologue (direct/indirect) We can distinguish 3 groups of novelists interested in: 1. psychology 2. giving voice to the characters’ thoughts 3. social and political issues

War poets

Rupert Brooke

Wilfred Owen

  • Battle of Somme
  • Life in threnches
  • Background of the war

Wystan Hugh Auden

  • Born in 1907
  • 'Oxford Poets'
  • Worried because he was homosexual
  • Influenced by Freud and Marx
  • Moved to America in1939
  • Themes and language
  • Poet's task
  • Another time