1st Edition
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals) Literature and the History of Violence
First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasingly important mode of domination during the modern period as ruling ideas became a form of violence in their own right. This reissue will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in the concept of violence, and the boundaries and capacity of discourse.
Introduction: Representing violence, or "how the west was won" Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse; Part I: Early Modern Culture: Putting the Politics Back into Poetics 1. The scene of tyranny: Violence and the humanistic tradition Stephanie Jed 2. "Drunk with the Cup of Liberty": Robin Hood, the carnivalesque, and the rhetoric of violence in early modern England Peter Stallybrass 3. Violence done to women on the Renaissance stage Leonard Tennenhouse 4. The other Quixote George Mariscal; Part II: Modern Culture: The Triumph of Depth 5. Idleness in South Africa J. M. Coetzee 6. Punishing violence, sentencing crime Randall McGowen 7. Hysteria and the end of carnival: Festivity and bourgeois neurosis Allon White 8. Violence and the liberal imagination: The representation of Hellenism in Matthew Arnold Vassilis Lambropoulos; Part III: Contemporary Culture: The Art of Politics 9. "Bringing it all back home": American recyclings of the Vietnam War John Carlos Rowe 10. Figures of violence: Philologists, witches, and Stallinistas Lucia Folena 11. The violence of rhetoric: Considerations on representation and gender Teresa de Lauretis
Biography
Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse,
