At the violet hour: modernism and violence in England and Ireland

Abstract

Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Violence and Form Power, Force, Political Violence Confronting War, Imagining History Chapters 1. Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence The Waste Land 2. Dynamic Violence: From Melodrama to Menace Imagining Revolutionaries and their Acts Explosion and Melodrama: The Secret Agents 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