Unseen Prose 1918-1939

Question 1

Modernism

Answer 1

desire to break with the past, reject literary traditions that seemed outmoded and genteel to suit era of tech breakthroughs and violence. loneliness and fragmentation of developing urban landscape, concerned with alienation.

Question 2

Religion

Answer 2

religious certainty diminished due to WW1 in 1914

Question 3

Political Activism 1930s

Answer 3

class division, extreme poverty and social unrest
caused by economic collapse in Europe and US but led to greater equality

Question 4

Technology

Question 5

Prohibition

Answer 5

1920-1933
Ban of alcoholic beverages led by driven by protestants, progressives and women as they wanted to reduce the negative social effects of rapid industrialisation like heavy drinking culture that went against Christian society values
Caused rise in organized crime, widespread illegal sale of.

Question 6

American Suffrage Movement

Answer 6

1920 when rejected back in 1914 by the Senate

Question 7

Great Depression

Answer 7

1929-late 1930s
Was caused by stock market crash, weak banking system, industrial overproduction and resulted in 4.3 million people unemployed in 1931.
A time of utter economic disaster; started in the United States in 1929, = unemployment and poverty

Question 8

British Empire

Answer 8

Losing power

Question 9

Interbellem

Answer 9

The interwar period from 1918-1939

Question 10

Woman’s rights

Answer 10

The right to vote came about in 1921 (have to be over 21yrs)

Question 11

Flapper Girl

Answer 11

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion, emancipated women and step to sexual liberation

Question 12

New Woman

Answer 12

A woman of the turn of the 20th century often from the middle class who dressed practically, moved about freely, lived apart from her family, and supported herself

dissatisfaction with the of domesticity, began to celebrate female virtue and support social and political responsibility of women, confidence to break ideals and compete with men, clubs, colleges, divorce, bicycling

Question 13

Roaring Twenties

Answer 13

the decade of the 1920’s which got this nickname because of the times prosperity and excitement, economic boom, industrial growth, consumerism, technology

Question 14

Bloomsbury Group

Answer 14

It was an influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, This loose collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London, during the first half of the 20th century. LIBERAL and opposed conventions of Romanticism

• Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, E.M Forster, Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey.

Question 15

The Lost Generation

Answer 15

Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe.
This generation was considered ‘lost’ as they inherited values which were no longer relevant in the post-war world.

Question 16

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 16

A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
Saw the rise of the Jazz Age which was a term used to describe the image of the liberated, urbanized 1920s, with a flapper as a dominant symbol of that era. Many rural, fundamentalist Americans deeply resented the changes in American culture that occurred in the “Roaring 20s.”

Question 17

The killed soldiers

Answer 17

The generation of men that died in the war as almost 1 million British men died during WW1 so there was a lot of guilt from the next generation who may have felt guilt that they weren’t affected by the conflict, or they were determined to make the most of their lives, in honour of those who lost theirs during the war