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Assignment:
The Twentieth Century and After 1901-present
1. What is the name of the artistic movement which insisted on art for art's sake that began toward the end of the nineteenth century and heavily influenced art in the twentieth century? What Victorian notions did it reject? What was the impact of this theory of art on the relationship between writers and other artists and the general public?
2. What two works of modern fiction were influenced by the aesthetic movement in their repudiation of the conventional Victorian notions of respectability, and who were the authors of these works?
3. What legislation act was responsible for the growth of public education in that it finally made elementary schooling compulsory and universal, and what was the impact on what was published in England? What three groups of literate audiences developed as a result of the expanded literate population in England? What was the impact of these new audiences in literature on the gap between popular art and more sophisticated art?
4. What eventin 1897 marked the end of the Victorian era, even though in British literature, we designate the beginning of the Twentieth Century with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901?
5. Who was a pivotal figure between Victorianism and modernism in literature, and what poem did he write that was originally titled ;By the Century's Deathbed? How does the poem depict the new century or modern world in contrast with the nineteenth century?
6. Define stoicism, a characteristic of the transitional poetry between Victorianism and modernism. What is another characteristic of this transitional period of literature? Name five transitional writers who use these traits in their writing.
7. Give some reasons why modernity disrupted the old order, upended ethical and social codes, cast into doubt previously stable assumptions about self, community, the world, and the divine and religion.
8. What work did Sigmund Freud publish in 1900 that made people more aware of psychoanalysis, changing how people saw and described rationality, the self, and personal development?