Modernism, War, and Violence

The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism''s extraordinary literary achievements in their contexts of historical violence, while surveying the ways in which the relationships between modernism and conflict have been understood by readers and critics over the past fifty years. Ranging from the colonial conflicts of the late 19th century to the world wars and the civil wars in between, and concluding with the institutionalization of modernism in the Cold War, Modernism, War, and Violence provides a starting point for readers who are new to these topics and offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field for a more advanced audience.>

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• Authors: Dr Marina (Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow MacKay, Marina MacKay
• Assisted by: Sean Latham (Editor), Gayle Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781472590077
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-9007-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 12 mm
• Series: New Modernisms; New Modernisms; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000