TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levay, Matthew.
TI  - VIOLENT MINDS: Modernism and the Criminal
SN  - 9781108428866
U1  - 823.9 
PY  - 2019////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fiction Collection
KW  - Crime Fiction
KW  - Crime in literature
KW  - Criminals in literature
KW  - United States
KW  - England
KW  - American Fiction
KW  - English Fiction
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - English literature-Themes, motives
KW  - Twentieth century Literature
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Levay, Matthew
N1  - "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"; Introduction: Modernism Violent Minds
Criminal Histories
Criminal Eras
Criminal Forms
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: The Criminal After Modernism
ER  -