Blasted Literature

Informationen zum Autor Deaglán Ó Donghaile is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Klappentext ENDORSEMENTS BEING SOUGHT Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys Drawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and culture. Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism Deaglán Ó Donghaile 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, Deaglán Ó 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. Deaglán Ó Donghaile lectures in nineteenth-century literature at Liverpool Hope University. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Deaglan O. Donghaile, Deaglssn Donghaile, Deaglan O Donghaile, Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Deaglan O. Donghaile, Deaglán Ó. Donghaile
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2010
• EAN: 9780748640676
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-4067-6
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in; Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies