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Author O'Donghaile, Deaglán Ó, author.

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

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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, Ã₃ Donghaile maps the political and aesthetic connections that bind the shilling shocker closely to modernism. Key Features. Extensive original archival research from libraries in the UK, Ireland and the US The first book to examine types of political and literary disruption Detailed discussion of Wyndham Lewis's avant-garde Vorticist journal BLAST in chapter 4
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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Terrorism in literature.
Terrorism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: O'Donghaile, Deaglan. Blasted literature. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 9780748640676 (OCoLC)648097089
ISBN 9780748645459 (electronic book)
0748645454 (electronic book)
9780748687695 (electronic book)
0748687696 (electronic book)
9780748640676 (hardback)
0748640673 (hardback)
0748651683 (ebook)
9780748651689 (ebook)
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