The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Pa

Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact

At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts.

This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century. It traces the modernist fascination w

Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.