English literature summary
convictions
and
public
taste
in
England.
1900-‐1920s
–
the
time
of
high
modernism,
a
lot
of
experiments;
1920s
–
emergence
of
the
“lost
generation”,
marked
by
a
search
for
stability
and
faith.
1930s
–
some
began
sympathising
with
authoritarian
governments
that
promised
some
sort
of
quasi-‐order
within
the
chaotic
world.
This
period
between
the
wars
in
English
literature
was
the
golden
age
of
the
detective
story.
1920s
Agatha
Christie
and
Hercule
Poirot.
Her
best-‐known
crime
stories
were
written