In 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown', Virginia Woolf:
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Correct answer: C. analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers
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Woolf (1923–24) sets the Edwardian 'materialists' (Bennett, Wells, Galsworthy) against the Georgians (Forster, Lawrence, Joyce, Eliot): 'on or about December 1910 human character changed'.
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