From the Victorian Age to the Modern Age: Recent Episodes
Maria Grazia Tundo 5^
"From the Victorian Age to the Modern Age". Reading of literary essays taken from Upper Secondary School students' textbooks. By Maria Grazia Tundo
George Orwell's famous essay on Politics and the English Language (abridged: http://digilander.libero.it/mgtund/ORWELL%201946%20Politics%20and%20the%20English%20Language%20ABRIDGED.htm
Literary Hyperlinks, vol. B pp. 219-229 - Modernism in Europe - Modernism and the novel
Literary Hyperlinks, pp. 212-217 - The inter-war years - World War II - Mass communication and the dream factory - The holocaust - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Literary Hyperlinks, pp. 206-212
The last days of Victorian optimism Suffragettes and the right to vote Imperial rivalry World War I Total war The Russian Revolution The cost of war and the desire for peace Steps to independence
Thomson, Maglioni, Literary Hyperlinks, From the Victorian Age to The Twentieth Century and Beyond, CIDEB, pp. 81-83.
"Literary Hyperlinks", pp. 13-14
Technological Innovation The communication revolution The cost of living
"Literary Hyperlinks", pp. 10-12
- Economy and society
- The growth of industrial cities
- The pressure for reforms (the Chartist movement)