{"product_id":"at-the-violet-hour-modernism-and-violence-in-england-and-ireland-9780199389063","title":"At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland","description":"Literature has long sought to make sense of the destruction and aggression wrought by human civilization. Yet no single literary movement was more powerfully shaped by violence than modernism. As Sarah Cole shows, modernism emerged as an imaginative response to the devastating events that\u003cbr\u003edefined the period, including the chaos of anarchist bombings, World War I, the Irish uprising, and the Spanish Civil War. Combining historical detail with resourceful readings of fiction, poetry, journalism, photographs, and other cultural materials, \u003cem\u003eAt the Violet Hour \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the strange intimacy\u003cbr\u003ebetween modernist aesthetics and violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe First World War and T. S. Eliot's \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrate the new theoretical paradigm that Cole deploys throughout her study, what she calls enchanted and disenchanted violence-the polarizing perceptions of violent death as either the fuel for regeneration or the emblem of grotesque\u003cbr\u003eloss. These concepts thread through the literary-historical moments that form the core of her study, beginning with anarchism and the advent of dynamite violence in late Victorian England. As evinced in novels by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and others, anarchism fostered a vibrant, modern\u003cbr\u003econsciousness of violence entrenched in sensationalism and melodrama. A subsequent chapter offers four interpretive categories-keening, generative violence, reprisal, and allegory-for reading violence in works by W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, and others around the time of Ireland's Easter\u003cbr\u003eRising. The book concludes with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's oeuvre, placing the author in two primary relations to the encroaching culture of violence: deeply exploring and formalizing its registers; and veering away from her peers to construct an original set of patterns to accommodate its\u003cbr\u003evisceral ubiquity in the years leading up to the Second World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA rich interdisciplinary study that incorporates perspectives from history, anthropology, the visual arts, and literature, \u003cem\u003eAt the Violet Hour \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a resonant framework for refiguring the relationship between aesthetics and violence that will extend far beyond the period traditionally associated\u003cbr\u003ewith literary modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199389063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Cole\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of \u003cem\u003eModernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934214307955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2c005f63-704b-4246-97e1-b33485c00249.jpg?v=1647877913","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/at-the-violet-hour-modernism-and-violence-in-england-and-ireland-9780199389063","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}