What is the greatest British novel?
- Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874)
- To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
- Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847)
- Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
- David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)
Who are the major twentieth-century novelists?
1901–22 modernism
- Joseph Conrad, 1904.
- Rudyard Kipling.
- James Joyce, 1918.
- Virginia Woolf, 1927.
- George Orwell, 1933.
- Anthony Burgess, 1986.
- Doris Lessing, Cologne, 2006.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, 1940s.
What are the main features of 20th century novel?
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- The main features of 20th century novel are:
- Concentration on urban middle class.
- Propensity to introspection.
- Introduction of the stream of consciousness.
- Focus on the life of educated characters.
- Experimental writing.
What are the characteristics of 20th century British literature?
Characteristics of 20th Century Literature
- Fragmented Structure. Prior to the 20th century, literature tended to be structured in linear, chronological order.
- Fragmented Perspective.
- The Novel of the City.
- Writing from the Margins.
Who are the three major twentieth-century British poets?
Pound, Lewis, Lawrence, and Eliot were the principal male figures of Anglo-American Modernism, but important contributions also were made by the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats and the Irish novelist James Joyce.
Who is the best novelist in English?
So, in no particular order, here is our pick of the ten most famous English authors of all time:
- William Blake 1757-1827.
- Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400.
- John Donne 1572-1631.
- George Eliot 1819-1880.
- John Milton 1608-1674.
- George Orwell 1903-1950.
- Harold Pinter 1930-2008.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834.
What are the characteristics of 20th century English drama?
Common themes in the new early 20th century drama were political, reflecting the unease or rebellion of the workers against the state, philosophical, delving into the who and why of human life and existence, and revolutionary, exploring the themes of colonization and loss of territory.
What were the basic features of 20th century?
The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, technological advances, and the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts.