Blasted Literature

Deaglan O Donghaile is Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford. He holds a PhD in English from Trinity College, Dublin, and in 2006 was named Young Conrad Scholar of the Year by the Joseph Conrad Society of America. From 2007-2009 was IRCHSS Research Fellow at NUI Maynooth and in 2009 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. He has taught Victorian literature at Trinity College, Dublin, NUI Maynooth and Liverpool Hope University.

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; Index