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2. Modernist literature and World War I (1914–1919)

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From The Professor’s Desk The Great War did not only kill men. It mutilated meaning. The year was 1914. The sun never set on the British Empire, and across Europe, proud nations paraded their flags to the rhythms of certainty and superiority. It was a world—arrogant, armored, and unsuspecting—marching straight into its own unmaking. In […]

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1. Modern Literature in a Broken World

HOME History of English Literature Prose, Novel & Fiction The Literary Scholar’s WitNotes Poetry Appreciation MODERNISM: Literature in a Broken World (Modern Literature from 1901 to ~1955 — shaped by War, Science, Psychology, and Disillusionment) From The Professor’s Desk “A New Century Dawns — But With Strange Clouds” “The year was 1901. Victoria, the great