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British Library: Using Discovering Literature in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Written by the English and Media Centre with the Learning Team at the British Library, this free pack shows you how to make the most of the wealth of materials on the Discovering Literature website. Alongside digitized manuscripts and...
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British Library: 20th Century: Power and Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how war and conflict shaped literature throughout the 20th century.
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British Library: 20th Century: Gender and Sexuality

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how 20th-century literature explored, questioned, and exploded traditional ideas of gender roles and sexuality.
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Norton Anthology: Twentieth Century Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the world of Twentieth Century British literature through this informative site. Find out how and why Georgian and Modernism movements developed. Includes a quiz.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Una Marson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Una Marson's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Andrea Levy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Andrea Levy's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Angela Carter

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Angela Carter's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century People: e.r. Braithwaite

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of E.R. Braithwaite's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Buddha of Suburbia

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Buddha of Suburbia" is a bestselling novel by the British writer Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Crash

For Students 9th - 10th
"Crash" is a novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard, published in 1973. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Wise Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "Wise Children" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Victorian Age Topics in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses four controversies that concerned the Victorians: evolution, industrialism, what the Victorians called "The Woman Question," and Great Britain's identity as an imperial power. Includes multiple-choice quiz and...
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British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1950 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key literary works of the late 20th century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1900 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key literary works of the early 20th- century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
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British Library: 20th Century: Theatre Practitioners and Genres

For Students 9th - 10th
From Stanislavski to Brecht and from Theatre of the Absurd to Theatre Workshop, explore some of the key influences and developments within 20th-century theatre practice.
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British Library: 20th Century: European Influence

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how European cities were crucibles for modernist experimentation.
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British Library: 20th Century: Visions of the Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways in which 20th-century writers imagined the future, investigated the present, and prepared for the unknown.
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British Library: 20th Century: Fantasy and Fairy Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how 20th-century writers used fantasy and traditional tales to analyze and question the real world around them.
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British Library: 20th Century: Exploring Identity

For Students 9th - 11th
Examine how writers have explored identity - through the prisms of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality - in the modern world.
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British Library: 20th Century: Art, Music and Popular Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the music, art, and popular culture that shook the world in the 20th century.
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Bartleby.com: Donne's Relation to Petrarch

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains full text of "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," as appears in "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature." Explains how Donne broke the Petrarchian poetic style.
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Bartleby.com: John Donne: His Position and Influence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature," this site places Donne amidst Elizabethan poets of his era and defines Donne apart from them.
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British Library: 20th Century People: Samuel Selvon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a summary of Samuel Selvon's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

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