Abstract This thesis aims to further the critical conversation on intermodernism, including what sets it apart from modernism and postmodernism as a transitionary period between the two, both chronologically and aesthetically. Intermodernist authors emphasize the physical and social reality of those in Britain and Britain's colonies, involving critiques of colonialism, assimilation, religious conflicts, and gender roles and experiences versus an idealized British identity. Through an analysis of...

Thesis Statement Throughout their presence in England, there have existed two distinct, highly visible groups who share a common ancestry and culture, one inhabited by mythical Jews and the other by Jews of reality. The existence of the second society has oftentimes been dependent on the perceptions that the English people had of the first. Perceptions that have been molded by some of England's greatest writers, including Theodorus, the seventh century archbishop of Canterbury, through Shakespeare,...