At the Violet Hour : Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Violence and Form -- Power, Force, Political Violence -- Confronting War, Imagining History -- Chapters -- 1. Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence -- The Waste Land -- 2. Dynamite Violence: From Melodrama to Menace -- Imagining Revolutionaries and their Acts -- Explosion and Melodrama: The Secret Agent -- Dynamite and the Future -- 3. Cyclical Violence: The Irish Insurrection and the Limits of Enchantment -- The Long Past: Keening -- The Rising: Generative Violence -- The Years of War: Reprisal -- Past, Present, Future: Architectural Allegory -- 4. Patterns of Violence: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s -- Theorizing Violence in the 1930s -- The Spanish Civil War -- Action and Pacifism -- Virginia Woolf -- Early Patterns: The Voyage Out -- The 1920s: Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse -- Overwhelming Force: The Years, Three Guineas, Between the Acts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Combining historical detail with resourceful readings of fiction, poetry, journalism, photographs, and other cultural materials, At the Violet Hour explores the strange intimacy between modernist aesthetics and violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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