Edwardian Literature,Edwardian Era Literature

The world is constantly in a situation of flux and is constantly changing itself. This change may not only be just physical in nature but is also ideological. The same applies in almost every field you may see in this world today. Literature is by far one of the most prime examples of ideological changes affecting the prevalent character of a field.

The end of the Victorian era marked a new beginning for literature in the land with fresh ideas and greater need leading the way. Edwardian literature would go on to be more intense, social and political for ages to come. Edwardian novels would go on to start a new style of writing that would be prevalent for a long time to come.

The ambivalence and restlessness of the new millennium was to find representation earlier than expected in the boundaries of Edwardian literature itself. The main propagator of a whole new system style of writing in this era was none other than George Bernard Shaw himself. He would go onto use his works to question society and the structure of politics, the institution and norms of marriage as trusted forward by society and the challenge of female emancipation.

This was to mark a beginning itself in the age of bold writing as there were others who followed Shaws footsteps in converting plays into an arena for debate and discussion. The writers of Edwardian novels decided to stand up and set the readers thinking positively in the hope that they would change for the better the atrocities of mankind of that day and age.

E.M. Forster the writer of books such as a Room with a View and Howards End too experimented with certain themes of insensitivity, repression and lack of humility in the English people. Further still HG Wells took to trying to use literature to show to the world how science and technology would change the future for the better.

However writers such as Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling would try hard to re-invigorate old literary forms like the satire, narrative poem, and ballad and so on. Imagism and futurism were becoming ever apparent in the Edwardian literature and Edwardian novels. In all a new age was dawning upon us when it came to the use of literature to affect society. In time the proverb The pen is mightier than the sword was about to be realized.