Blasted literature : Victorian political fiction and the shock of modernism /

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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 Rob...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ó Donghaile, Deaglán (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Terrorism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Terrorisme dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English fiction.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the city of encounters
  • Imperialism and the late Victorian dynamite novel
  • Exploiting the apostles of destruction : anarchism, modernism and the penny dreadful
  • 'The doctrine of dynamite' : anarchist literature and terrorist violence
  • Shock modernism : blast and the radical politics of vorticism.

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