Many novels contemporary to West's elaborate the social and cultural malaise of the 1920s caused by the First World War. In America, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) illustrates the shallowness of the rich in the Jazz Age. In England, Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, in various modes, critiqued a valueless modern society. Behind all these writers lies T. S. Eliot's central critique of postwar modern society,.....
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