Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism
(Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series)
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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, Deagl n Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influenced by the explosive shocks of late nineteenth-century terrorism. For the first time, late-Victorian 'dynamite novels', radical journalism and modernist writing are brought together in provocative readings of Henry James, R L Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Wyndham Lewis.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*Reads Henry James, R L Stevenson and Joseph Conrad in new contexts *Detailed discussion of Wyndham Lewis's avant-garde Vorticist journal BLAST in chapter 4
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1474444520
ISBN13:9781474444521
Release Date:August 2018
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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