Sarah Cole

At the Violet Hour

Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining historical detail with resourceful readings of fiction, poetry, journalism, photographs, and other cultural materials, At the Violet Hour explores the strange intimacy between modernist aesthetics and violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 679g
• ISBN-13: 9780199389063
• ISBN-10: 0199389063
• Artikelnr.: 40541955

Autorenporträt

Sarah Cole is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Violence and Form
Power, Force, Political Violence
Confronting War, Imagining History
Chapters
1. Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence
The Waste Land
2. Dynamic Violence: From Melodrama to Menace
Imagining Revolutionaries and their Acts
Explosion and Melodrama: The Secret Agents
Dynamite and the Future
3. Cyclical Violence: The Irish Insurrection and the Limits of Enchantment
The Long Past: Keening
The Rising: Generative Violence
The Years of War: Reprisal
Past, Present, Future: Architectural Allegory
4. Patterns of Violence: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s
Theorizing Violence in the 1930s
The Spanish Civil War
Action and Pacifism
Virginia Woolf
Early Patterns: The Voyage Out
The 1920s: Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
Overwhelming Force: The Years, Three Guineas, Between the Acts
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index