sought to criticize elements of setting in new and innovative ways
expanded upon a growing critique of British Imperialism and the ideology of empire
often contained literature perpetuating doctrines of racial superiority in Germany
also perpetuated shifting power structures, such as women entering the workforce, in literature
sense of time as discontinuous, overlapping, and non-chronological (a shift from linear to "moment time" writing)
focused on the unconscious as an important source of motivation