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CHAPTER 9. the 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE to The CHAPTER 9. THE 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE To the English literature of this period we refer prose, poetry, and drama written in English in the 1900s. The century was a period of great artistic change, and is dominated by the impact of World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939– 45), as well as by the artistic concerns of modernism (which affected both themes and methods of writing). Modernist literature was predominantly European movement beginning in the early-to-mid-20th century that was characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. Representing the radical shift in cultural sensibilities surrounding World War I, modernist literature struggled with the new realm of subject matter brought about by an increasingly industrialized and globalized world. The range of literature and of its readership, which increased in the 19th-century English literature period, rose even more rapidly in the 20th century. Early 20th-century novel JAMES JOYCE While their Victorian predecessors had usually been happy to cater to mainstream middle-class taste, 20th century writers such as James Joyce often felt alienated from it, so responded by writing more intellectually challenging works or by pushing the boundaries of acceptable content. Joyce’s complex works included “Ulysses”, arguably the most important work of Modernist literature, referred to as “a demonstration and summation of the entire movement”. When “Ulysses” was published in Paris in 1922, many immediately hailed the work as genius. With his inventive narrative style and engagement with multiple philosophical themes, Joyce had established himself as a leading Modernist. The novel charts the passage of one day – June, 16 1904 – as depicted in the life of an Irish Jew named Leopold Bloom, who plays the role of a Ulysses by wandering through the streets of Dublin. Despite the fact that Joyce was writing in self-imposed exile, living in Paris, Zurich and Trieste while writing “Ulysses”, the novel is noted for the incredible amount of accuracy and detail regarding the physical and geographical features of Dublin. Thematically similar to Joyce’s previous works, “Ulysses” examines the relationship between the modern man and his myth and history, focusing on contemporary questions of Irish political and cultural independence, the effects of organized religion on the soul, and the cultural and moral decay that produced economic development and heightened urbanization. While “Ulysses” was hailed by some, the novel was banned from both the United Kingdom as well as the United States on obscenity charges. It was not until 1934, that Random House won a court battle that granted permission to print and distribute Joyce’s “Ulysses” in the United States; two years later, the novel was legalized in Britain. Though his prestige had faded towards the end of his life, Joyce regained literary stature in the decades following his death and “Ulysses” now stands as the definitive text of the Anglo-American modernist movement, marking Joyce’s creative genius and premier abilities as a stylist of the English language. D.H.LAWRENCE Important novelist between the two World Wars, Lawrence began writing poetry in college and that turned into “The White Peacock”, his first novel (1911). He did not enjoy the collegiate atmosphere and spent most of his time there writing and learning about socialism. Lawrence continued writing poetry and prose, and he was soon catapulted into London’s literary circles, though he never felt comfortable within them. His mother developed cancer in 1910, and as she wasted away, Lawrence began writing “Paul Morel” (later to become “Sons and Lovers”) as an investigation into his relationship with her. The whole narrative can be seen as Lawrence’s psychoanalytic study of his own case, a young man’s struggle to gain detachment from his mother. “Sons and Lovers” was published in 1912 and is considered now to be his masterpiece. Lawrence was prolific in this period, writing more poems, publishing “The Rainbow” in 1915 (erotic subject matter and language of which was met with harsh criticism, and its distribution was severed), and working on “Women in Love” (1920). He continued writing novels, poems, and even books on psychoanalysis, though only “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (1928), another heavily censored book, approached the fame and reputation of “Sons and Lovers”, “The Rainbow”, and “Women in Love”. In The Rainbow, the first of the novels of this period, Lawrence extends the scope of Sons and Lovers by following the Brangwen family over three generations, so that social and spiritual change are woven into the chronicle. Women in Love takes up the story, but across the gap of changed consciousness created by World War I. The women of the title are Ursula, picking up her life, still at home, and doubtful of her role as teacher and her social and intellectual status; and her sister Gudrun, who is also a teacher but an artist and a free spirit as well. They are modern women, educated, free from stereotyped assumptions about their role, and sexually autonomous. Though unsure of what to do with their lives, they are unwilling to settle for an ordinary marriage as a solution to the problem. The search for a fulfilling sexual love and for a form of marriage that will satisfy a modern consciousness is the goal of Lawrence’s early novels and yet becomes increasingly problematic. None of his novels ends happily: at best, they conclude with an open question. Lawrence is one of the few writers whose reputation is equally staked on novels, short stories, and poetry, and though his initially censored work now seems tame, he opened up the door to sensuality for countless writers after him. D. H. Lawrence wrote with understanding about the social life of the lower and middle classes, and the personal life of those who could not adapt to the social norms of his time. Lawrence attempted to explore human emotions more deeply than his contemporaries and challenged the boundaries of the acceptable treatment of sexual issues. VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia published an extraordinary amount of groundbreaking material. She was a renowned member of the Bloomsbury Group and a leading writer of the modernist movement with her use of innovative literary techniques. In contrast to the majority of literature written before the early 1900s, which emphasized plot and detailed descriptions of characters and settings, Woolf’s writing thoroughly explores the concepts of time, memory, and consciousness. The plot is generated by the characters’ inner lives, not by the external world. Over the course of her many illnesses, however, Woolf had remained productive. Her intense powers of concentration had allowed her to work ten to twelve hours writing. Her most notable publications include “Night and Day”, “The Mark on the Wall”, “Jacob’s Room”, “Monday or Tuesday”, “Mrs. Dalloway”, “To The Lighthouse”, “A Room of One’s Own”, “The Waves”, “The Years”, and “Between the Acts”. In total, her work comprises five volumes of collected essays and reviews, two biographies (“Flush” and “Roger Fry”), two libertarian books, a volume of selections from her diary, nine novels, and a volume of short stories. Virginia Woolf was an influential feminist, and a major stylistic innovator associated with the stream-of- consciousness technique. In March 1941, Woolf left suicide notes for her husband and sister and drowned herself in a nearby river. She feared her madness was returning and that she would not be able to continue writing, and she wished to spare her loved ones. EDWARD MORGAN FOSTER Forster’s first novels were products of that particular time – stories about the changing social conditions during the decline of Victorianism. However, these earlier works differed from Foster’s contemporaries in their more colloquial style and established the author’s early conviction that men and women should keep in touch with the land to cultivate their imaginations. He developed this theme in his first novels “Where Angels Fear to Tread” (1905) and “The Longest Journey” (1907), followed by the comic novel “A Room With a View” (1908), which concerns the experience of a young British woman, Lucy Honeychurch, in Italy. However, Foster’s first major success was “Howards End” (1910), a novel centered on the alliance between the liberal Schlegel sisters and Ruth Wilcox, the proprietor of the titular house, against her husband, Henry Wilcox, an enterprising businessman. The novel ends with the marriage of Henry Wilcox to Margaret Schlegel, who brings him back to Howards End, reestablishing the Wilcox land link. “A Room with a View” and “Howards End” examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. Forster spent three wartime years in Alexandria doing civilian work and visited India twice. After he returned to England, inspired by his experience in India, he wrote “A Passage to India” (1924), which reflected challenges to imperialism. The novel examines the British colonial occupation of India, but rather than developing a political focus, explores the friendship between an Indian doctor and British schoolmaster during a trial against the doctor, based on a false charge. “A Passage to India” is the last novel Forster published during his lifetime, but two other works remained, the incomplete “Arctic Summer” and the unpublished complete novel “Maurice”, which was written circa 1914, but published in 1971 after Foster’s death. Forster specifically requested the novel be published only after his death due to its overt homosexual theme. Although Forster published no novels after “A Passage to India”, he continued to write short stories and essays until his death in 1970. He published several anthologies, including “The Celestial Omnibus” (1914) and “The Eternal Moment” (1928), two collections of short stories, a collection of poetry, essays and fiction, and several non-fiction works.
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