Modernism, War, and Violence

by MacKay, Marina; Rogers, Gayle; Latham, Sean

• ISBN13: 9781472590060
• ISBN10: 1472590066
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-05-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Marina MacKay is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Modernism and World War II (2007) and The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel (CUP, 2010), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II (2009).

Table of Contents

1. A Terrible Beauty is Born
2. Modernism and the Great War Revisited
3. Modernism and Political Violence
4. The 1930s: Journeys to a War
5. Modernism and the Second World War
6. Cold War Modernism?
Further Reading
Index