Characteristics of Twentieth century literature 

☆ According to M. H Abraham, 

              " The term modernism is widely used to identify new and distinctive features in the subjects, forms, concepts and style of literature and the other arts in early decades of the 20th century, but especially after World War I ( 1914 - 1918 )

♧ Major Characteristics of the Modern age :-

Progress and regress both are fruits of the scientific revolution. Which has been the outstanding feature of this century. The perfecting of the internal combustion engine made possible the aeroplane and other means of mass slaughter in the two world wars. In peacetime the motor car and motorcycle gave almost unlimited mobility to millions, medical science and genetic engineering break new ground and explore the basis of human behaviour and diseases. Controversial technologies from organ transplantation to cloning become standard subjects of debate. The increased use of psychotropic drugs and the quest for " Spiritual " peace by any means through the 1970s produced some excellent literature on either side of the Atlantic. Man's growing mastery of the physical world and its material resources is a story of ever accelerating progress accompanied in its later phases by an unprecedented moral and spiritual relapse. 

The time of modern period left many positive and negative lasting effects on the modern world, some of which are still seen today as well as the advances of different inventions from the era. The era known as the industrial revolution is a period in which fundamental changes occurred in agriculture, textiles and metal manufacturer, transportation and communication as well as economic policy. Factories and industries were incorporated into daily life and cities across the world. During the industrial revolution, the first commerce to make sufficient progress was called the textile Industry. This consumer based industry started this advances when the agricultural revolution, a period of time in which changes in the production of food and the tools used during the time, caused many men to move to the cities in search for Job's. Without earning money by farming or working in a family business, many made the choice to work in factories. 

Throughout the period between the two world wars, the growth of mass production methods in industry created deep concern among sociologists who recognised that a lifetime work on assembly line processes was destructive of interest in the objects produced and a threat of death to craftmanship. The surprising outburst of poetry during first world war was also intelligible and the attractive to the common readers and though in the post 1922 period it became fashionable among " Avantgarde " critics and their followers to denigrate the Georgian poets of the 1914 - 1918 period. The people of the Britain faced the second world war in a mood of stoical determination and endurance. In 1939 there could be no repetition of the spirit of 1914, when Romantic patriotic fervour and belligerent enthusiasm were not yet dimmed and ignorance not yet enlightened by experience of total war and when stay at homes, still strangers bombing, could be abused as shirkers. 

♧ References  :-

2 Effects from the Textile Industry - Industrialization in Modern World. sites.google.com/site/industrializationinmodernworld/effects-on-textile-industry.