Violence in Early Modernist Fiction

Izabela Curyllo-Klag teaches in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. Her research interests include: the modern British novel, dystopian writing and Roman noir, and the intersections between literature, history, and culture. She has published articles on modernist fiction and co-edited an anthology of immigrant memoirs, The British Migrant Experience, 1700-2000.

The merit of the work is to tap into the deep layer of communications and mutual conflict as literary form, symbolism of gestures and behaviors, in a word of what Irving Goffman defines in his sociological analysis as a "presentation of self." -- Prof. Krystyna Stamirowska, Jagiellonian University