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British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1950 2000
Explore key literary works of the late 20th century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1900 1950
Explore key literary works of the early 20th- century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Gender and Sexuality
Discover how 20th-century literature explored, questioned, and exploded traditional ideas of gender roles and sexuality.
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British Library: 20th Century: Power and Conflict
Find out how war and conflict shaped literature throughout the 20th century.
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British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children
In these activities, students will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber
These activities offer learners a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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British Library: 20th Century Literature: Collection Items
Discover a wealth of original sources from 20th-century literature, including manuscripts, first editions, newspapers, diaries, letters, photographs, and maps.
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British Library: 20th Century: Visions of the Future
Explore the ways in which 20th-century writers imagined the future, investigated the present, and prepared for the unknown.
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British Library: 20th Century: Theatre Practitioners and Genres
From Stanislavski to Brecht and from Theatre of the Absurd to Theatre Workshop, explore some of the key influences and developments within 20th-century theatre practice.
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British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter, Gothic Literature
"The Bloody Chamber" is a collection of modern fairy tales, many of which incorporate elements of Gothic literature. Greg Buzwell traces the Gothic influence on Carter's stories, from the Marquis de Sade to Edgar Allan Poe.
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British Library: 20th Century: An Introduction to Andrea Levy's Small Island
Andrea Levy's "Small Island" is a story of post-war Caribbean migration, narrated from four different perspectives. Hannah Lowe explores how the novel is intrinsically linked with Levy's own Caribbean ancestry, as well as how it has...
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British Library: 20th Century: Fantasy and Fairy Tale
Find out how 20th-century writers used fantasy and traditional tales to analyze and question the real world around them.
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British Library: 20th Century: Exploring Identity
Examine how writers have explored identity - through the prisms of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality - in the modern world.
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British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
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British Library: 20th Century: Art, Music and Popular Culture
Discover the music, art, and popular culture that shook the world in the 20th century.
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British Library: 20th Century: European Influence
Discover how European cities were crucibles for modernist experimentation.
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British Library: Thomas Hardy's Dorset
View landscape images from a variety of artists that depict author Thomas Hardy's native Dorset. These images provided the backdrop for his novels. Click on an image for further details.
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E Reading Worksheets: The War of the Worlds
In this learning module, students will engage in a deep study of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Worksheets, tests, and map projects are provided to reinforce comprehension of The War of the Worlds. This module is designed to support...
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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Thomas Hardy
What do you know about the life and work of Thomas Hardy? Explore this informative site to learn more about this famous poet.
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The Best Notes: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Norton Anthology: Twentieth Century Topics
Explore the world of Twentieth Century British literature through this informative site. Find out how and why Georgian and Modernism movements developed. Includes a quiz.
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Classic Reader: "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill
The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...
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Classic Reader: The World Set Free by h.g. Wells
Read the full text of the H.G. Wells novel "The World Set Free" about destructive and uncontrollable nuclear weapons.
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Twentieth Century British Literature
This introductory note to 20th century British literature presents links to informative sites for student research and lists of authors.