Britain in the 1900's

In the 1900s England was moving forward, expanding outward, and pushing the boundaries of technologies. Steam power transformed Greater Britain into a economic power and changed the lives of everyone. Trains began to run from city to city, crisscrossing England, providing a way to get out from London and visit the countrysides, and vise versa. Factories popped up everywhere, and soon all members of the population were working and learning new trades. Britain began to continue solidify her overseas holdings as well as expanding her influence on other nations and places. Britain was Growing on the world scene.
The first key thing that changed literature in Britain was the Train. while traveling one wanted things to do, watching the countryside fly by was only so interesting for so long. small novellas and magazine issues and newspapers skyrocketed in popularity. This created a demand for many new types of literature, mystery, romances, completely changing the literature in this era. Just imagine and era where bookstores sat on every corner and in every station. Libraries sprang up in almost every block, where printing presses hardly slowed at night, rushing to keep up the demand. This is a world I wish that I could have lived.

Britian in the 1800s

In the 1800's Britain was a brand new nation facing brand new challenges. At the end of the 1700's Britain had just fought Netherlands for control of the English channel, set up a new empire in India, America, Africa, and Australia. She was flexing her new muscles at sea, stretching her new professional army, providing a new outlook for those searching for Life, Liberty, and the other ideas in freedom. But by the end of the 1800's they had lost the first of many colonies, found themselves alone facing the new threat of Napoleon's new army that had just finished overrunning most nations in Europe. They had developed a whole new national identity in the face of these many obstacles.
"Rue Britannia" A song that represented the whole new idea developed around the ideals created by a new power with new strengths.

These new ideas are often reflected on and in the writings of the British Authors. Much more do we find the influences of not only the new ideas, but the effects of this change in the British physic. You get the whole idea that many of the writers in poetry not liking many of these changes as Britain moved towards not just industrialization but war as well. often you get these shouts out against the changes. In all of the poems you get this sense that some of them dislike these changes, until we get Napoleon stepping onto the stage.

But all of this aside, what we see is this new idea, an idea of both exploration and reassessing their roots, stepping forward while looking back, these new ideas, helping to redefine what it means to be British.