ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1950s, a vigorous anti-establishment, and anti-traditional literary movement emerged. The main writers of this movement, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, are called Beat Writers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which period of English literature came first? The first historical period of English Literature is the Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066).

Detailed explanation-4: -The list of cultural and social movements that took shape in the 1950s is staggering: the drug scene, the free love scene, the music scene, the modern art scene, the civil rights movement (Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954), feminism, the peace movement, the anti-nuke movement (SANE was founded in 1957).