Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism

by Deaglan O Donghaile

Overview

Dynamite novels meet highbrow modernism via the impact of terrorism. Between 1880 and 1915, a range of writers exploited terrorism's political shocks for their own artistic ends. Drawing on late-Victorian 'dynamite novels' by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Greer and Robert Thynne, radical journals and papers, such as The Irish People, The Torch, Anarchy and Freiheit, and modernist writing from H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad to the compulsively militant modernism of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists, O Donghaile maps the political and aesthetic connections that bind the shilling shocker closely to modernism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748687695
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	525 KB

About the Author

Deagl n Donghaile is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

Editorial Reviews

Blasted Literature opens up a vista of writing, thinking, worrying, and glorying in political violence whose potency has been largely forgotten; its revival in this study is enormously welcome. — Sarah Cole, Victorian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2

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