Aspects of the Novel | Compare and Contrast

1837–1901: The reign of Queen Victoria lends its name to the Victorian era, a term that first comes into use in the 1850s.

1901–1910: The reign of King Edward VII, referred to as the Edwardian age, marks a contrast with the national atmosphere of his austere mother.

1914–1918: The horror and disillusionment experienced by the World War I era has a profound effect on English literature and the modernist movement.

1924–1937: James Ramsay MacDonald is the first candidate of the Labour Party, with which Forster sympathized, to be...

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