English Modernism: The Twentieth Century

1. Major Themes

1.1. Industrialism

1.2. Urbanization

1.3. Individualism

1.4. Science and Technology

1.5. Stream of Consciousness

1.6. Technology's Destruction of Society

1.7. Free Verse Poetry

2. Poetry

2.1. Leaves of Grass

2.2. The Waste Land

3. Movements

3.1. The First Wave

3.2. WWI

3.3. The 1930's

3.4. WWII

3.5. Post WWII

3.6. The 21st Century

4. Art Forms

4.1. Cubism

4.2. Dadaism

4.3. Transcendentalism

4.4. Futurism

4.5. Surrealism

4.6. Impressionism

4.7. Expressionism

5. Influential Authors

5.1. Walt Whitman

5.2. T. S. Elliot

5.3. James Joyce

5.4. Samuel Beckett

5.5. Virginia Woolf

5.6. Joseph Conrad

5.7. Ian Fleming

5.8. George Orwell

6. Drama

6.1. Waiting for Godot

7. Fiction

7.1. Mrs. Dalloway

7.2. 1984

7.3. Casino Royale

7.4. Ulysses

7.5. Heart of Darkness

7.6. James Bond