Terrorism and Literature

doi:10.1017/9781316987292

- Get access
  
  Buy a print copy
  
  Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
  
  Log in Register
Cited by 6
Cited by
- 6
Crossref Citations

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

Glăvan, Gabriela 2019. The American Beserk. Young Terrorists as Archetypes in Contemporary American Culture. Romanian Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16, Issue. 1, p. 71.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Baker, William 2020. XVIII Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Reference Works. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 99, Issue. 1, p. 1267.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Ross, Shawna Bratton, Francesca Krzakowski, Caroline Corser, Sophie Keese, Andrew Phillips, Joshua West, Mark Cooper, Samuel D’Monte, Rebecca Martín, Gustavo A Rodríguez Saunders, Graham Masud, Noreen Creasy, Matthew Alonso, Alex and O’Hanlon, Karl 2020. XIV Modern Literature. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 99, Issue. 1, p. 865.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Wexler, Joyce 2021. Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today. p. 1.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Baba, Nouzha 2024. The fear of new barbarians: The drama of 9/11 terrorism and its threat on the west in Driss Chraïbi’s L’Homme qui venait du passé . Journal of Postcolonial Writing, p. 1.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Martin, Catherine Gimelli Timmis, Patrick Stelzer, Emily Dyck, Paul James, Anne and Urban, David V 2024. The Seventeenth Century, Part I. The Year's Work in English Studies,

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Edited by Peter C. Herman, San Diego State University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2018
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781316987292
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316987292

Subjects:: Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
Series:: Cambridge Critical Concepts

84.99 (GBP)

Digital access for individuals
(PDF download and/or read online)
Add to cart

Added to cart

Digital access for individuals
(PDF download and/or read online)
View cart
Export citation
Buy a print copy

Information

Contents

Metrics

Terrorism has long been a major shaping force in the world. However, the meanings of terrorism, as a word and as a set of actions, are intensely contested. This volume explores how literature has dealt with terrorism from the Renaissance to today, inviting the reader to make connections between older instances of terrorism and contemporary ones, and to see how the various literary treatments of terrorism draw on each other. The essays demonstrate that the debates around terrorism only give the fictive imagination more room, and that fiction has a great deal to offer in terms of both understanding terrorism and our responses to it. Written by historians and literary critics, the essays provide essential knowledge to understand terrorism in its full complexity. As befitting a global problem, this book brings together a truly international group of scholars, with representatives from America, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, and other countries.

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Terrorism and Literature

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Contents

Terrorism and Literature
pp i-i

Cambridge Critical Concepts - Series page
pp ii-iv

Terrorism and Literature - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

Contributors
pp x-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-16

Part I - Origins
pp 17-174

Chapter 1 - Savagery and the Sacred
pp 19-35

Chapter 2 - Early Modern Terrorism
pp 36-52

Chapter 3 - “Carrying Justice in Their Hearts”
pp 53-69

Chapter 4 - Methodology and Martyrs
pp 70-89

Chapter 5 - “The Play’s the Thing”
pp 90-109

Chapter 6 - The Nation-State’s Other
pp 110-127

Chapter 7 - Conflict and Violence in the Early Northern Irish Troubles
pp 128-147

Chapter 8 - Social-Revolutionary Violence in Western Europe
pp 148-159

Chapter 9 - Terrorism in the Middle East
pp 160-174

Part II - Development
pp 175-374

Chapter 10 - Terrorism in Literature to 1642
pp 177-195

Chapter 11 - “Terror in Inquisition”
pp 196-211

Chapter 12 - “Parliament Is Burning”
pp 212-229

Chapter 13 - Dostoevsky’s Terrorism Trilogy
pp 230-245

Chapter 14 - Perils and Pleasures of the Bloody Oath
pp 246-262

Chapter 15 - Staging the Limit
pp 263-282

Chapter 16 - Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and Terrorism on Film
pp 283-302

Chapter 17 - “Something in the Making”
pp 303-319

Chapter 18 - No Heroes in a Cycle of Violence
pp 320-339

Chapter 19 - “Why Do They Hate Us?” Terrorists in American and British Fiction of the Mid-2000s
pp 340-360

Chapter 20 - Terrorism in Theory
pp 361-374

Part III - Applications
pp 375-504

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views

Terrorism and Literature

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views