At the Violet Hour

Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8092948
AutoresSarah Cole (0000-0003-4608-0715, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Páginas377
Data de publicação2012-11-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoAt The Violet Hour Modernism And Violence In England And Ireland (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389616.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241607730
Open LibraryOL26061527M
ISBN9780195389616
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

This book argues that the literature of the early twentieth-century in England and Ireland was deeply organized around a reckoning with grievous violence, imagined as intimate, direct, and often transformative. The book aims to excavate and amplify a consistent feature of this literature, which is that its central operations (formal as well as thematic) emerge specifically in reference to violence. The book offers a variety of new terms and paradigms for reading violence in literary works, most centrally the concepts it names "enchanted and disenchanted violence." In addition to defining key aspects of literary violence in the period, including the notion of "violet hour," the book explores three major historical episodes: dynamite violence and anarchism in the nineteenth century, which provided a vibrant, new consciousness about explosion, sensationalism, and the limits of political meaning in the act of violence; the turbulent events consuming Ireland in the first thirty years of the century, including the Rising, the War of Independence, and the Civil War, all of which play a vital role in defining the literary corpus; and the 1930s build-up to WWII, including the event that most enthralled Europe in these years, the Spanish Civil War. These historical upheavals provide the imaginative and physical material for a re-reading of four canonical writers (Eliot, Conrad, Yeats, and Woolf), understood not only as including violence in their works, but as generating their primary styles and plots out of its deformations. Included also in this panorama are a host of other works, literary and non-literary, including visual culture, journalism, popular novels, and other modernist texts

Art · Independence (probability theory · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sensationalism · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Psychology · 20th century · English literature · History and criticism · Irish Authors · irish authors, history and criticism · Modernism (Literature) · Violence in literature