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The Rise of Modernism - History of Literature (1900-1925) (Patreon)

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2022-05-19 18:19:09

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There are a million stories to tell from the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Our story sees the rise of modern literature against a backdrop of war, disease, and inequality. And the concerns of writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust will now become our concerns.

We begin today in 1900, and march our way through to 1925.

Video Timestamps

0:00 welcome to the 20th Century
2:00 the turn of the century
3:00 leaving the 19th Century behind
4:50 the French Symbolist poets
6:30 Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
11:48 Stanislavski and Chekhov
15:00 farewell to Oscar Wilde
16:00 consciousness in literature
18:00 the novels of Joseph Conrad
20:00 the poetry of Thomas Hardy
21:00 Henry and William James
23:00 triple deckers vs single volumes
24:00 Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
25:10 James Joyce & Marcel Proust
26:00 James Joyce's Ulysses
29:30 the young Virginia Woolf
31:00 Constance Garnett's translations
32:00 Bergson, Einstein & temporality
33:30 James Joyce's Dubliners
35:00 Salome, and the rise of film
37:40 Galsworthy's 'Forsyte Saga'
39:30 Baden-Powell & the Boy Scouts
43:00 Futurism, Imagism & Ezra Pound
47:00 Halley's Comet, Antarctic & the Titanic
49:00 Marcel Proust's 'Swann's Way'
49:31 the Great War begins
52:00 an era of War poetry
56:20 D. H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow'
57:00 Tolkien sent to the Somme
59:00 Lenin & the Bolshevik Revolution
59:30 Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen
1:02:00 a young Ernest Hemingway
1:03:00 the end of the war & Spanish Flu
1:04:30 Gerard Manley Hopkins published
1:06:00 Ulysses & stream-of-consciousness
1:09:15 the Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties
1:10:00 T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
1:12:00 Ulysses published in entirety
1:13:00 Proust's Search translated
1:15:00 Arnold Bennett vs Virginia Woolf
1:19:00 the next quarter looms

Question to consider:

- If you were a reader in the first quarter of the century, what works would be on your bookshelves? Which literary movements would most intrigue you?

Happy reading, everybody!

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The Rise of Modernism - History of Literature (1900-1925)

0:00 welcome to the 20th Century 2:00 the turn of the century 3:00 leaving the 19th Century behind 4:50 the French Symbolist poets 6:30 Freud's Interpretation of Dreams 11:48 Stanislavski and Chekhov 15:00 farewell to Oscar Wilde 16:00 consciousness in literature 18:00 the novels of Joseph Conrad 20:00 the poetry of Thomas Hardy 21:00 Henry and William James 23:00 triple deckers vs single volumes 24:00 Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes 25:10 James Joyce & Marcel Proust 26:00 James Joyce's Ulysses 29:30 the young Virginia Woolf 31:00 Constance Garnett's translations 32:00 Bergson, Einstein & temporality 33:30 James Joyce's Dubliners 35:00 Salome, and the rise of film 37:40 Galsworthy's 'Forsyte Saga' 39:30 Baden-Powell & the Boy Scouts 43:00 Futurism, Imagism & Ezra Pound 47:00 Halley's Comet, Antarctic & the Titanic 49:00 Marcel Proust's 'Swann's Way' 49:31 the Great War begins 52:00 an era of War poetry 56:20 D. H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow' 57:00 Tolkien sent to the Somme 59:00 Lenin & the Bolshevik Revolution 59:30 Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen 1:02:00 a young Ernest Hemingway 1:03:00 the end of the war & Spanish Flu 1:04:30 Gerard Manley Hopkins published 1:06:00 Ulysses & stream-of-consciousness 1:09:15 the Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties 1:10:00 T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' 1:12:00 Ulysses published in entirety 1:13:00 Proust's Search translated 1:15:00 Arnold Bennett vs Virginia Woolf 1:19:00 the next quarter looms