Description
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century. It traces the modernist fascination with violence back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain writers in France and England sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and stylized criminality.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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.
