Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781474444521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 520 str.

Deaglan O. Donghaile

Opis

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, Deaglan O Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influenced by the explosive shocks of late nineteenth-century terrorism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Shock, Politics, Literature; 1. Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the City of Encounters; 2. Imperialism and the Late Victorian Dynamite Novel; 3. Exploiting the Apostles of Destruction: Anarchism, Modernism and the Penny Dreadful; 4. 'The Doctrine of Dynamite': Anarchist Literature and Terrorist Violence; 5. Shock Modernism: Blast and the Radical Politics of Vorticism; Conclusion: Literature and 'the resources of civilization'; Bibliography; Index