Prose Contexts

modernism

expressionism

roaring twenties

jazz age

prohibition 1920-33

cinema/celebrities

harlem renaissance

the lost generation

moral drift after ww1: the 20s renowned for superficial/surface society

class divisions

bbc - 1927

freud

turmoil - struggle to recover from ww1

roaring twenties: economic prosperity, industrial growth, consumerism and technology

great depression of the 30s - unemployment/poverty

general strike 1926

hunger marches by unemployed workers from jarrow to london

1928 women over 21 given the vote in uk (1920 in america)

the new woman

the flapper - emancipated woman of 20s - bobbed hair, knee length dresses, sexual independence

interwar period (the interbellum)

destabilised society because of loss of monarchies (german, austro-hungarian, russian, ottoman)

political turmoil - beginnings of nazism, spanish civil war (franco)

rise of radical movements - communism/facism - rise of dictators

british empire under threat - declaration of independence of india

the monarchy - abdication crisis of 1936

‘the mandarin’ and ‘the vernacular’

stream of consciousness

the british class system

servants and employers

development of middle class family life/values

rejection of traditional roles for women

einstein

the bloomsbury group: bohemian/intellectual life

the 1930s - ‘the low, dishonest decade’