Edwardian literature

E281224

Edwardian literature refers to the body of English writing produced during the reign of King Edward VII and the years surrounding it, marked by a transition from Victorian moralism to more modern, often critical explorations of empire, class, and social change.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Edwardian literature canonical 28

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English literature movement
literary period
country United Kingdom
endTime 1910
followedBy Georgian literature
follows Victorian literature
hasCharacteristic concern with working-class conditions
early feminist themes
experimentation with narrative form
greater psychological depth
increasing social criticism
interest in everyday life
mix of optimism and anxiety about modernity
questioning of empire
transition from Victorian moralism
use of irony and satire
hasGenre adventure fiction
children's literature
comic fiction
domestic fiction
drama
fantasy fiction
novel
poetry
short story
social satire
war literature
hasHistoricalContext height of the British Empire
pre–World War I Britain
reign of Edward VII
rise of the Labour movement
women's suffrage movement
hasLanguage English
influenced interwar British fiction
modernist literature
influencedBy Darwinism
Victorian realism
industrial capitalism
late Romanticism
scientific progress
mainSubject British Empire
gender roles
imperialism
industrialization
political reform
poverty
social change
social class
urbanization
movement early modernism
naturalism
realism
social problem novel
namedAfter Edward VII
partOf 20th-century British literature
periodOf Arnold Bennett
Beatrix Potter
E. M. Forster
E. Nesbit
surface form: Edith Nesbit

G. K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
Herbert George Wells
surface form: H. G. Wells

Harley Granville-Barker
Henry James
Hilaire Belloc
J. M. Barrie
J. M. Synge
John Galsworthy
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
Saki
W. Somerset Maugham
startTime 1901

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rudyard Kipling movement Edwardian literature
Mole literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Portly literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn literaryMovement Edwardian literature
The River Bank literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Toad's Adventures literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Rat literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Victorian literature influenced Edwardian literature
Henry Wilcox literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Howards End (house) literaryMovementContext Edwardian literature
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Where Angels Fear to Tread literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
The Longest Journey literaryMovement Edwardian literature
Dream Days literaryMovement Edwardian literature
The Old Wives’ Tale literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Richard Pryce movement Edwardian literature
Forsyte family literaryMovement Edwardian literature
Just So Stories literaryMovement Edwardian literature
Jon Forsyte literaryMovementContext Edwardian literature
Clayhanger literaryMovement Edwardian literature
Riceyman Steps literaryMovement Edwardian literature
Buried Alive literaryMovement Edwardian literature
How the Camel Got His Hump literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
The Cat That Walked by Himself literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
Peter and Wendy literaryMovement Edwardian literature
Hodgson Burnett movement Edwardian literature
subject surface form: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sir Henry Newbolt movement Edwardian literature
Irene Heron literaryPeriod Edwardian literature