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  title info:
    title: Violent minds
    sub title: modernism and the criminal
  name:
    name part: Levay, Matthew
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Just as cultural attitudes toward criminality were undergoing profound shifts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist authors became fascinated by crime and its perpetrators, as well as the burgeoning genre of crime fiction. Throughout the period, a diverse range of British and American novelists took the criminal as a case study for experimenting with forms of psychological representation while also drawing on the conventions of crime fiction in order to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the criminal mind. Matthew Levay traces the history of that attention to criminal psychology in modernist fiction, placing understudied authors like Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith in dialogue with more canonical contemporaries like Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Dashiell Hammett and Gertrude Stein. Levay demonstrates criminality's pivotal role in establishing quintessentially modernist forms of psychological representation and brings to light modernism's deep but understudied connections to popular literature, especially crime fiction.
  table of contents: Introduction; 1. Modernist detection: minds, mindlessness, and the logic of criminal pursuit; 2. Criminal types: anarchism, terrorism, and the violence of chance; 3. The modernist crime novel: popular literature and the forms of experiment; 4. Cases of identity: late modernism and the life of crime; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
  note: Matthew Levay.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Crime in literature
  subject:
    topic: Criminals in literature
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
    geographic: England
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR878.C74 L48 2019
  classification: 823/.8093556
  identifier: 9781108428866
  identifier: 110842886X
  identifier: 2018042447
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190102
    record change date: 20190718162653.0
    record identifier: in00004053257