English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1601 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Britain After 1930
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The idea
After nineteen thirty came depression, a second world war, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb, then the loss of empire, from the partition of India to African independence, and a welfare state at home. The anchor notes Britain moved to the sidelines of the world stage.
In practice
War, empire's end, welfare state.
Where people slip
These works are described, not quoted.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- 1602W. H. Auden
- 1605Dylan Thomas
- 1606Stevie Smith
- 1607George Orwell
- 1610Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- 1611Evelyn Waugh
- 1613William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- 1617John Osborne and the Angry Young Men
- 1621Philip Larkin
- 1625Seamus Heaney
- 1628Doris Lessing
- 1629Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark
- 1631Angela Carter
- 1635Fleur Adcock
- 1644After Modernism Weighed
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