Elena Agathokleous 
Modernity and it’s Costs in William Faulkner’s ’As I Lay Dying’ and Katherine Mansfield’s ’Garden Party’ 

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject American Studies – Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: This essay shows how Faulkner’s ’As I Lay Dying’ and Katherine Mansfield’s ’Garden Party’ are both modernist texts that deal with modernity and its costs for specific groups of people.

The time characterized as modernity was the time that major technological advancements were made and along with them there were also major changes in society and culture. Modernity was the period that new science was developed, politics and capitalism appeared and industrialization was an intense phenomenon.