edwardianism

The culture and social climate of the Edwardian era, especially when viewed as a peaceful and romantic golden age of country houses and garden parties.

On the domestic scene, the cultural fabric was a mixture of British Edwardianism and U.S. Progressivism; these were both a blessing and a burden in Russell's life.

Simultaneously, 1903/4 calls up the myth of “Edwardianism”—the last halcyon days of the nineteenth century before the twentieth begins in 1914, to which Sir Edward Elgar, writing in 1917, pays significant tribute: “Everything good and nice and clean and fresh and sweet is far away never to return."

The literary and artistic styles of the Edwardian era.

The modernist intimations accruing as doubts about Rickie's sentimental Edwardianism also undermine Forster's own “sober” Edwardianism.

Although Edwardianism was different from modernism, it was never the less radical. Modernism reconstructed the past and asserted a new identity. Edwardianism was thought to favour continuity and tradition, but the fiction often belies this.

A phrase or habit characteristic of the Edwardian era.