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Modern Literature Time ChartA chart showing the publication dates of works of literature in the context of important historical, social, and cultural events |
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1914-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2003 |
2000 |
A selection of publicationsKate Atkinson: Emotionally Weird |
Historic and political eventsStock market crash of dot.com companies. |
Social historyUK: Tate Modern gallery opens. Science: Completion of draft of the sequence of the human nuclear genome. |
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2001 |
Achmat Dangor: Bitter Fruit |
USA: George W Bush, Republican, becomes President in controversial election. |
UK: Lord Jeffrey Archer jailed. Ronald Biggs, train robber, gives himself up. Cinema: The Lord of the Rings, part 1. |
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2002 |
Lionel Abrahams: The White Life of Felix Greenspan |
USA: US-led action in Afghanistan against Taleban and al Qaeda. Sniper attacks on the public in Washington. |
Introduction of euro banknotes and coins in some European countries. UK: Party in the Palace for Queen’s Golden Jubilee. USA: Department of Homeland Security established. Science: Odyssey Mars probe finds evidence of water ice. Cinema: The Lord of the Rings, part 2. |
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2003 |
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake |
UK: State visit by George Bush. |
UK: Concorde supersonic aircraft taken out of service. Technology: NASA experimenting with laser-powered model aircraft. Cinema: The Lord of the Rings, part 3. |
1914-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2003 |
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The following sources are acknowledged for assistance in compiling this time chart:
Bloom, Clive, & Day, Gary, eds. Literature and Culture in Modern Britain. Volume Three: 1956-1999. Longman. 2000.
Brannigan, John. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England 1945-2000. Palgrave Macmillan. 2003.
Compact Chronology of World History. Penguin Hutchinson Reference Library. Helicon Publishing and Penguin Books Ltd. 1996
Mercer, Derrik. ed. Chronicle of the 20th Century. Dorling Kindersley. 1995.
Microsoft Encarta 99 Encyclopedia. Microsoft Corporation. 1993-1998
Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org
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