Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism / Deaglan O Donghaile

Public ISBD Titre : Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Deaglan O Donghaile, Auteur Editeur : Britain : Edinburgh University Press Année de publication : 2018 Importance : 272 p Format : 23.5x15.5 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4744-4452-1 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 800 Littérature (Belles lettres) Résumé : 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.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 Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism [texte imprimé] / Deaglan O Donghaile, Auteur . - Britain : Edinburgh University Press, 2018 . - 272 p ; 23.5x15.5 cm. ISBN : 978-1-4744-4452-1 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 800 Littérature (Belles lettres) Résumé : 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.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

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