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- •I. Uter.Ature of the middle ages
- •Geoffrey chaucer
- •II. Literature of the renaissance
- •William shakespeare
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- •Daniel defoe
- •Jonathan swift
- •Robert burns
- •It's corning yet, for all that,
- •IV. Literature of the early 19th century
- •George gordon byron
- •In the form of a ballad, a lyrical form, that gives them
- •Walter scott
- •Ivanhoe
- •V. Literature from the 1830s to the 1860s
- •William makepeace thackeray
- •Vanity fair. A novel without a hero
- •VI. Literature of the last decades of the 19th century
- •Oscar wilde
- •VII. Literature of the early 20th century
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- •Herbert george wells
- •George bernard shaw
- •VIII. Literature between the two world wars
- •Katherine mansfield
- •Archibald cronin
- •IX. Literature from the 1940s to the 1990s
- •James aldridge
- •Graham greene
- •Charles percy
- •John osborne
- •Alan sillitoe
- •Stan barstow
- •William golding
- •Iris murdoch
- •John fowles
- •The collector
- •Muriel spark
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- •I) Charlotte Bronte a) The Strange Case o/ Dr. Jekyll and
- •2) George Winlcrbourne b) The Quiet American
- •2) John Osborne b) Look Back in Anger
- •3) William Golding c) The Black Prince
- •4) Iris Murdoch d) Key to the Door
- •2) The French Lieutenant's Woman e) Charles Smithson;
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IX. Literature from the 1940s to the 1990s
The Second World War influenced greatly the ideologi cal and economic life of Britain. This could not but affect the development of English literature.
During the war Great Britain suffered heavy financial
losses. The post-war programme of the Labour Party became the only hope for a better future for the British people. It promised to do away with unemployment, to improve living conditions, to level out prices. Great at tention in the programme was paid to cooperation with the Soviet Union. So the elections of 1945 brought defeat to the Conservatives and ensured victory to the Labour Party. Very soon, however, the British people saw that the policy of the labour leaders did not differ much from that of their predecessors.
From 1946 Great Britain faced strong resistance on the part of the oppressed people of India and Egypt. Great Britain was losing one colony after another and becoming more dependent on the USA.
The failure of the Labour Government that promised a lot and did nothing, the cold war and the atomic threat, the rapid intensification of the cultural and moral crisis these were the factors in the 50s- 60s which influenced
the minds of the British people, particularly the intellec
tuals, and caused their disillusionment.
Due to the deepening of the capitalist economic crisis the position of the working masses became worse in the
70s.
Prices were rapidly going up. By the end of the decade
inflation had reached more than 25% annually and the number of unemployed amounted to the unprecedented figure of 2.5 min. The workers responded to the govern ment's economic policy with numerous strikes and demon strations. The continuous arms race and the growing threat of a third world war led to a new wave of the anti war movement which developed on a wide scale and in volved millions of British people.
AI! this was reflected in the literature of that time.
Special mention should be made of the Marxist writer Jack Lindsay (b. 1900), whose important contribution to English literature is his series of novels under the col lective title Novels of the British Way. The first of these, Betrayed Spring, was well known to Soviet readers. In it Lindsay gave a fine picture of the complicated political situation in Britain after World War II.
Besides socialist literature, other literary tendencies appeared one after another: "the angry young men" (1953-1957), "new left" and "teenager's literature" (af
ter 1958), the "working-class novel" and the "new wave drama"
The novel with a philosophical tende11cy was born and the traditional satirical novel flourished to the full.
The essence of all these literary phenomena was the earnest search of the writers for their place in life, for a better future.
If we compare the litercture of the pre-war period with that of the 19-40-80s, we sh;,l!l definitely see great chan
ges: the number of progressive writers has grown to a large extent. Realism prevails in the English literature of the post-war period.