English literature

Salama Musa reviews in this book modern English literature and its criticism, which historically extends from the Victorian era, characterized by rigidity — in the author's opinion — to the modern era, which he sees as renewal and revolution against Victorian traditions. This is due to the dialectical nature that English literature established with its reality, so that the texts of English writers interacted with their social reality more than their counterparts of other texts. The reason for such a dialectical nature is attributed to the pragmatic utilitarian vision prevailing in the English philosophical schools, which accompanied the manifestations of the industrial revolution and the prosperity of the British economy in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and this influence was reflected on the literary and critical schools at that time.