Blasted Literature - Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Deaglan O Donghaile, Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Deaglan O. Donghaile, Deaglán Ó. Donghaile
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781474444521
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-4452-1
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in; Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism