An Introduction to British Literature


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11. British women writers

Thomas Hardy

The 20th Century Literature

  • Modernism
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Virginia Woolf
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • E. M. Forster
  • T. S. Eliot
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Oscar Wilde

Joseph Conrad

  • Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language. He became a naturalized British subject in 1886.
  • Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature.

Joseph Conrad

  • His works:
  • The Heart of Darkness (1902)

Virginia Woolf

  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
  • During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Virginia Woolf

  • The Bloomsbury Group was an English collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century.
  • Their work deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality. Its best known members were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey.

Virginia Woolf

  • She sometimes used the “stream of consciousness” technique.
  • ▶Stream of Consciousness is a psychological term indicating the flux of conscious and subconscious thoughts and impressions moving in the mind at any given time independently of the person’s will.
  • ▶In the 20th century, under the influence of Fleud’s theory of psychological analysis , a number of writers adopted the Stream of Consciousness as a method of novel writing.

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