03109cam a2200349 4500 759249650 TxAuBib 20170814120000.0 170123s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017001569 9780805094022 hardback $30.00 0805094024 hardback $30.00 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT IMmBT TxGR TxAuBib Goldstein, Bill, author. The world broke in two [Book] : Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature / Bill Goldstein. First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017. x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index. "A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust's In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--"The Waste Land." As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, The World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness. "-- Provided by publisher. "A literary history of the year 1922 in the lives of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and T.S. Eliot"-- Provided by publisher. 20170814. Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation. Eliot, T. S Thomas Stearns 1888-1965 Criticism and interpretation. Lawrence, D. H David Herbert 1885-1930 Criticism and interpretation. Forster, E. M Edward Morgan 1879-1970 Criticism and interpretation. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Nineteen twenty-two, A.D. Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. Literature and society History 20th century. RV8