Armed with Madness

Armed with Madness is a novel by Mary Butts first published in 1928 that incorporates Modernism and Psychoanalytical Criticism.

Armed with Madness
Cover of the 2001 edition
AuthorMary Butts
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreModernist
Publication date
1928
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN0-929701-18-6 (McPherson Paperback Reprint in 'The Taverner Novels')

A variation on the grail myth, concerned with ritualism and the relationships of a group of young bohemians living in rural isolation on the south-west coast of England, it is recognized as Mary Butts's most significant contribution to literary modernism, and has been called a "masterpiece of Modernist prose".[1]

Publication History

Completed in 1927, the novel was first published in the 1928 edition, by Wishart & Co, London, with three engraved plates by Jean Cocteau. It has since been reprinted several times, recently by McPherson, with Butts's 1932 novel The Death of Felicity Taverner, as The Taverner Novels in its 1992 and 1998 editions, incorporating an introduction by Paul West. It was published singly as a Penguin Modern Classic in 1998.[2]

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References
  1. Rainey, Lawrence (16 July 1998). "Good Things: Pederasty and Jazz and Opium and Research". London Review of Books. 20 (14): 14–17.
  2. "Goodreads listing for Armed with Madness, Penguin Modern Classics edition". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 20 October 2017.


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