Wisps of Violence keyword-new-york-intellectuals Between the development of electrical

Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s

Heathcliff and the Great Hunger reads Irish culture from Swift and Burke to Yeats and Joyce in the light of the tortuous

a disproportionate claim on global and local ecosystems and sinks

and the cross-impacts of feminism and neoliberalism

Wisps of Violence keyword-new-york-intellectuals Between the development of electricalEric Hobsbawm characterized the period from 1880 to 1914 as "years when wisps of violence hung in the English air", years in which increasingly militant socialists, anarchists and feminists seriously threatened the peace. Sypher argues that, curiously, few novels of the period openly acknowledged this threat. In this book, she interprets the image of turn of the century politics produced in the fiction of writers such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad,