Concetti Chiave
- At the dawn of the 20th century, England was a vast empire under King Edward VII, who aimed to improve relations with European nations, particularly Germany.
- The First World War led to a decline in the British economy, culminating in the 1929 Wall Street crash.
- Ireland pursued independence from Britain, resulting in the Irish Civil War and achieving independence in 1921.
- The Second World War began in 1939, bringing widespread death and destruction to Europe.
- The transition from Victorian to modern literature included psychological novels by Forster and innovative works by writers like James Joyce and George Orwell.
L'ascesa dell'Impero britannico
At the beginning of this century England had become a huge Empire. The new king was Edward VII, a beloved monarch. He tried to improve relationships with the other European country failing with Germany. George V tried to solve the problem between the parties. The reasons that brought Europe to be politically divided had to be found in the economic superiority, industrial progress and population increase of France, Germany and England.
Conflitti e cambiamenti in Europa
The end of the war marked Edward the VIII succeeded his father George.
In 1939 Europe was entering a new world conflict, the Second World War, that brought deaths and misery.
In 1952 Elizabeth II became queen of Britain and North Ireland and she represented the Head of State.
The passage from Victorian to modern fiction is embodied with psychological novels by Forster. Around 1910 fiction began to reflect a new trend, which perceived man as an irrational, unconscious world. In this period the most important writers are James Joyce (“stream of consciousness”) and George Orwell and as concerns poetry Eliot and Auden.
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