Armed with Madness

1928 novel by Mary Butts

Armed with Madness

First edition (US)

Author| Mary Butts
Language| English
Genre| Modernist
Publisher| Wishart & Co (UK)
Albert & Charles Boni (US)

Publication date

| 1928
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN| 0-929701-18-6 (McPherson Paperback Reprint in 'The Taverner Novels')

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

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

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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]

## References

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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.

## External links

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* Full text of Armed with Madness at HathiTrust Digital Library

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