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At the Violet Hour - Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (Hardcover)
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At the Violet Hour - Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (Hardcover)
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
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At the Violet Hour 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. At the Violet Hour 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.
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