| Description |
1 online resource (x, 232 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: modernism's blasted history -- Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses -- 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics -- 3. Culture, corruption, criminality -- 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced -- 6. No dreaming pale flowers -- 7. Modernist sexual politics -- 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) -- 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness -- Epilogue: traumas of the world -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Great Britain. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- France.
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France. |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sheehan, Paul, 1960- Modernism and the aesthetics of violence. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107036833 (DLC) 2012043743 (OCoLC)822229878 |
| ISBN |
9781107348509 (electronic book) |
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1107348501 (electronic book) |
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9781107342255 (electronic book) |
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1107342252 (electronic book) |
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9781139568296 (electronic book) |
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1139568299 (electronic book) |
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9781107036833 |
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1107036836 |
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