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The Transformation of the English Novel: 1890-1930 The novels of Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf represent a radical break from the past. The great change in major British fiction from the realistic to the expressionist novel begins roughly in 1895, the year of Hardy’s last novel, Jude the Obscure, and reaches a climax with Woolf’s major novels, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Modernism Joseph Conrad He is simultaneously a 19th- and a 20th-century writer and thinker He is also cosmopolitan in outlook, not British NOT