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The 20th century has seen the breakdown ofー |
The British Class System |
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In Britain, universal adult suffrage wasー |
Achieved about a decade after WWI. |
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Edwardian Era |
The period that followed the death of Victoria |
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Gandhi |
An influential Indian nationalist |
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Winston Churchill |
Inspired the people to continue fighting during WWII's Battle of Britain |
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British Commonwealth |
The federation of independent nations united under the symbolic power of the British crown |
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Modernism |
-The term used for the various 20th-century artistic movements that all desired to break from the past |
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T.S. Eliots' Waste Land |
Ofter considered the single most influential poem of the 20th century |
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W.H. Auden |
He achieved fame doing the 1930's and was known for his liberal spirit of reform |
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W.B. Yeats |
Was a playwright and a poet who helped found the Irish national theatre |
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George Bernard Shaw |
The author of Pygmalion |
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Samuel Beckett |
Wrote an experimental play turtles waiting for Godot |
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Virginia Woolf |
Became famous for her use of stream of consciousness, lyric imaginary and sophisticated wit in books such as Mrs. Dalloway |
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Ulysses |
Written by James Joyce, is an influential Noval which combined realism, symbolism,poetry, didacticism, comedy, irony, and myth |
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The short story |
Literary genre that is sometimes defined as,"Fiction written to be read in one sitting and intended to create a single effect. |
