The Modern Era (1915 – 1946)
The Modern Era (1915 – 1946)
|Historical Background |
|WWI Era (1914 – 1918) |
|Years prior to WWI were incredibly optimistic |
|WWI changed all of that |
|Trench Warfare and the Machine Gun |
|Isolationism of the U.S. |
|Lusitania, sank by a German U-Boat; 1,200 dead and 128 Americans dead |
|Allies vs. Germany |
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|Prosperity after the War (1918 – 1929) |
|War ended in November of 1918 |
|1919 Prohibition: Illegal liquor sales, bootlegging, speakeasies, gang warfare |
|Roaring 20’s: Stock Market Boom |
|Metropolitan Expansion |
|Big Business |
|Jazz |
|Hollywood |
|Greenwich Village in NY: Artistic Community |
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|Stock Market Crash of October 1929 |
|Stock Market and stock values dived |
|1932 – 12 million unemployed or ¼ of the workforce |
|Bread lines and soup kitchens |
|Hoovervilles or shantytowns and President Herbert Hoover |
|FDR defeats Hoover and the New Deal |
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|WWII Era (1939 – 1945) |
|Germans invade Poland |
|Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan) vs. Allies (Europe, Russia, and U.S.) |
|Isolationism persists in America, despite the fall of France in 1940 |
|Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 |
|VE Day then 3 months later VJ Day |
|Birth of the atomic age with bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
|Modern Values Reflected in Literature |
|Uncertainty, disjointedness, and disillusionment |
|Both Poetry and Prose became fragmentary, traditional narrative form abandoned |
|Themes are implied rather than directly stated |
|Popular Literary Forms |
|Imagism: Clear expression concrete images, everyday speech. Rebelled against 19th century sentimentality. |
|Expatriates: Writers in exile, usually lived in Europe (Paris especially), reflected disillusionment with the American Dream after WWI. Were often |
|characterized as the “lost generation.” Writing is often characterized as despairing, dark, and hopeless. |
|Stream of Consciousness: A presentation of a series of thoughts, memories, and insights, connected only by a character’s natural associations. |
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