Modern English Literature

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Modern_English_Literature

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:characteristic	alienation fragmentation stream of consciousness focus on individualism experimentation with form
gptkbp:followedBy	Postmodern literature
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Modern English Literature
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:urban_development existentialism industrialization modern art psychoanalysis
gptkbp:language	English
gptkbp:literaryMovements	gptkb:Angry_Young_Men gptkb:Beat_Generation gptkb:Bloomsbury_Group gptkb:Harlem_Renaissance gptkb:Imagism gptkb:Modernism gptkb:Surrealism gptkb:Postcolonial_literature Absurdism
gptkbp:notableContributor	gptkb:D._H._Lawrence gptkb:George_Orwell gptkb:James_Joyce gptkb:Samuel_Beckett gptkb:T._S._Eliot gptkb:Virginia_Woolf gptkb:W._B._Yeats
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:The_Waste_Land gptkb:To_the_Lighthouse gptkb:Ulysses gptkb:Mrs_Dalloway gptkb:Waiting_for_Godot 1984
gptkbp:period	late 19th century to present
gptkbp:precededBy	Victorian literature
gptkbp:region	gptkb:Ireland gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:significantEvent	gptkb:World_War_I gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:studiedIn	universities worldwide
gptkbp:theme	gptkb:identity gptkb:war modernity disillusionment
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Lord_Northcliffe_Professor_of_Modern_English_Literature,_University_College_London
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6