Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Shock, Politics, Literature
- 1 Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the City of Encounters
- 2 Imperialism and the Late Victorian Dynamite Novel
- 3 Exploiting the Apostles of Destruction: Anarchism, Modernism and the Penny Dreadful
- 4 ‘The Doctrine of Dynamite’: Anarchist Literature and Terrorist Violence
- 5 Shock Modernism: Blast and the Radical Politics of Vorticism
- Conclusion: Literature and ‘the resources of civilization’
- Bibliography of Cited Works
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Shock, Politics, Literature
- 1 Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the City of Encounters
- 2 Imperialism and the Late Victorian Dynamite Novel
- 3 Exploiting the Apostles of Destruction: Anarchism, Modernism and the Penny Dreadful
- 4 ‘The Doctrine of Dynamite’: Anarchist Literature and Terrorist Violence
- 5 Shock Modernism: Blast and the Radical Politics of Vorticism
- Conclusion: Literature and ‘the resources of civilization’
- Bibliography of Cited Works
- Index
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- Blasted LiteratureVictorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism, pp. 255 - 260Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011