Description
Covering writers from Ford Madox Ford to W.H. Auden, this book guides students and readers through modernist literature's responses to war and political violence.
About the Author
Marina MacKay is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter's College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Modernism and World War II (2007) and The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel (2010), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II (2009).
Reviews
Although other critics have described the particular ways in which modernist writers have represented war and violence, Marina MacKay makes this topic new in her comprehensive and generative study, Modernism, War, and Violence. In this physically concise yet intellectually expansive volume, MacKay grants her reader a panoramic view of war and violence in Anglophone literature from the fin-de-siecle to the Cold War, offering many fresh and incisive ideas along the way ... It is hardly possible to overstate how useful this book would be for a graduate student seeking to gain surer footing in thinking about the continuity of twentieth-century literature. Modernism, War, and Violence is a gift to the field of literary modernism, on that we knew we needed. -- Michelle McSwiggan Kelly, New York University * James Joyce Quarterly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781472590077
Author Dr Marina MacKay
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 260g