At the Violet Hour
Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2012
392 pages
978-0-19-999583-7 (ISBN)
Description
At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Violence and Form
- Power, Force, Political Violence
- Confronting War, Imagining History
- Chapters
- 1. Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence
- The Waste Land
- 2. Dynamite Violence: From Melodrama to Menace
- Imagining Revolutionaries and their Acts
- Explosion and Melodrama: The Secret Agent
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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