During the 20th century, many events were happening in the world. Each one contributes to the writings of Novelists. What is these factors?

5. Modernism introduced a new kind of narration to the novel, one that
would change the entire soul of novel writing.
The novelists have a conscious desire to change traditional ways of
representation and express the new sensibilities of their time.

9. The war was a common theme shared by many novelists, including the
social changes caused by the war.
Many popular novels simply included pre-war plots about spies or
romantic encounters onto a wartime setting.

11. "the history of humanity's changing attitudes toward space and time ...
the history of our growing understanding of the universe and the
position of our species in that universe.”
Robert Scholes.

12. science fiction developed and boomed in the 20th century, as the deep
integration of science and inventions into daily life encouraged a
greater interest in literature that explores the relationship
between technology, society, and the individual.

14. The rapid industrial growth that began in Great Britain during the
middle of the eighteenth century and extended into the United States
for the next 150 years provided a wide range of material for many
nineteenth-century writers.

15. Charles Dickens's realistic and ironic depictions of industrial towns in
Hard Times (1854), underscored the deleterious affects of urbanization
on the working class. Works by Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, the
Brontë sisters, and W. M. Thackeray also presented accurate accounts
of the industrialisation.

17. Christianity, encompassing the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and
Protestant faiths, asserted a tremendous influence on the literature of
the twentieth century.

18. at the beginning of the twentieth century, literature challenged those
beliefs and placed religion behind such scientific, political and
psychological theories.
There are examples of novelists who have spoken out directly against
religious orthodoxies in their works such as:
E.M. Forster, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.

20. Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)

21. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

22. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

23. James Joyce (1882-1941)

24. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

25. In conclusion, the twentieth-century novels are influenced
by the changes in beliefs and political ideas after the events
of the WWI and the disappearance of the British Empire.