| Modernism, War, and Violence Contributor(s): MacKay, Marina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472590074 ISBN-13: 9781472590077 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2017288697 |
| Series: New Modernisms |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rogers, Gayle: - Gayle Rogers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe and Literary History (OUP, 2012).Latham, Sean: - Sean Latham is Professor and Pauline Walter Chair of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa, USA. He is a former President of the Modernist Studies Association, current Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and Co-Directory of the Modernist Journals Project (http: //dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/). His many publications include The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law and the Roman a Clef (OUP, 2009) and, as Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses (CUP, 2013). |