A study of poetry, fiction, drama and essays from the turn-of-the-century to just after the First World War. Works by authors such as Hardy, Mew, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy, Shaw, Lawrence, Mansfield and Wilfred Owen are read in the context of the social, technological, cultural and political changes of the Edwardian era and the devastating impact of the war in the years which followed. Exclusions EN258*.