At the Violet Hour - Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland

Zusatztext Cole's well-written, formidably researched book is a treasure trove of incisive readings that will surely become a classic ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Sarah Cole is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War. Klappentext At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts. Zusammenfassung At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1 Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence Chapter 2 Dynamite Violence: From Melodrama to Menace Chapter 3 Cyclical Violence: The Irish Insurrection and the Limits of Enchantment Chapter 4 Patterns of Violence: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s Conclusion Index

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Cole, Sarah (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Cole
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.11.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780195389616
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538961-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies