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Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 (Transitions)
Pater to Forster 18731924 - Transitions Author:Ruth Robbins Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 covers a period often named as an "age of transition", which exists uneasily between the apparent moral certainties of the Victorian age and the advent of a modernist aesthetics of instability and uncertainty. Ruth Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period in writings by... more » major and "minor" writers--decadence, realism and naturalism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism--to create a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past.« less