Distinctive Features of English Reformist Literature and Uzbek Jadid Literature: A Comparative-Typological Study

This article examines the distinctive features of English reformist and modernist writing and Uzbek Jadid literature in the early twentieth century. The study argues that the two literary traditions shared a broad concern with enlightenment, social renewal, education, moral reform and the critique of stagnation, but they emerged from substantially different historical and cultural conditions. Uzbek Jadid literature developed under colonial pressure and was closely connected with national awakening, the reform of schooling, the spread of print culture, the formation of civic consciousness and the struggle against ignorance. English reformist literature, by contrast, was shaped by industrial society, parliamentary culture, class conflict, the women’s question, urban modernity, war trauma and the crisis of liberal humanism. Through a comparative-typological method, the article analyses differences in historical background, ideological orientation, genre preferences, character construction, language, style and the concept of reform. It concludes that Uzbek Jadid literature was primarily a literature of national awakening and pedagogical mobilisation, whereas English reformist literature functioned as a critical reflection on the contradictions of an already industrialised and institutionally developed society.