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Modernism developed in the late 19th and early 20th century as a response to the earlier Romanticism that had informed the Western artistic tradition. While Romanticism created romantic, dramatic, and heightened interpretations of the human experience, modernism sought to depict human life as realistically as possible. Major social and political upheaval such as organized labor, women’s rights, the technological revolution, and World War I prompted Western artists and authors to seek a new mode of expression and representation. Modernism was a revolutionary interpretation of the human experience, focusing on the detail of normal, everyday lives over social or moral themes, and making more space for female and other marginalized voices.
Modernism emphasizes human psychology as a primary lens of human consciousness. In the late 19th century, the psychological texts and theories of Sigmund Freud changed the way people understood their own minds. Modernists adapted psychology into a new form of literature that honored the psychological experience, making narratives that were concerned with the experiences and processes of consciousness, very often in the first-person. One major effect of this is that the first-person narrators of modernist works express self-reflective psychological and existential concerns, such as the meaning of life and the construction of their identity.
By Virginia Woolf
A Haunted House
A Haunted House
Virginia Woolf
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Between The Acts
Between The Acts
Virginia Woolf
Flush: A Biography
Flush: A Biography
Virginia Woolf
How Should One Read a Book?
How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens
Virginia Woolf
Modern Fiction
Modern Fiction
Virginia Woolf
Moments of Being
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
The Death of the Moth
The Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf
The Duchess and the Jeweller
The Duchess and the Jeweller
Virginia Woolf
The Lady in the Looking Glass
The Lady in the Looking Glass
Virginia Woolf
The Mark on the Wall
The Mark on the Wall
Virginia Woolf
The New Dress
The New Dress
Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas
Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf