Blasted literature : Victorian political fiction and the shock of modernism / [electronic resource]
Ó Donghaile, Deaglán,author.
By connecting Fenian and anarchist violence found in popular fiction from the 1880s to the early 1900s with the avant-garde writing of British modernism Deaglán Ó Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influenced by the explosive shocks of late nineteenth-century terrorism.
Cover; Copyrighted; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Shock, Politics, Literature; Chapter 1 Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the City of Encounters; Chapter 2 Imperialism and the Late Victorian Dynamite Novel; Chapter 3 Exploiting the Apostles of Destruction: Anarchism, Modernism and the Penny Dreadful; Chapter 4 'The Doctrine of Dynamite': Anarchist Literature and Terrorist Violence; Chapter 5 Shock Modernism: Blast and the Radical Politics of Vorticism; Conclusion: Literature and 'the resources of civilization'; Bibliography of Cited Works; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
By connecting Fenian and anarchist violence found in popular fiction from the 1880s to the early 1900s with the avant-garde writing of British modernism Deaglán Ó Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influenced by the explosive shocks of late nineteenth-century terrorism.
English fiction
Terrorism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)