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Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism
Contributor(s): Ó. Donghaile, Deaglán (Author)
ISBN: 0748640673     ISBN-13: 9780748640676
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 823.809
LCCN: 2011431900
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Literature
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
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