Blasted literature : Victorian political fiction and the shock of modernism / by Deaglan O'Donghaile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Donghaile, Deaglán.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Terrorism in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613100412

0748640673 (Cloth)

9780748651689

0748651683

9781283100410

128310041X

9780748640676

0748640673

9780748645459

0748645454

OCLC:

714572237