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Blasted Literature
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, Deaglan O Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influence
World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time
Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.
Risk and the English Novel
Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and contro...
Bombs, Bullets and Bread
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a wave of political violence swept across the globe, causing widespread alarm. Described by the media of the day as "propaganda of the deed," assassinations, bombings and assaults carried out by anarchists--both individuals and conspirators--were intended to incite revolution and established the precedents of modern terrorism. Much has been written about these actions and the responses to them yet little attention has been given to the actors themselves. Drawing on wide range of sources, the author profiles numerous insurgents, their deeds and their motives.
Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press
From the Revolutionary War forward, Irish immigrants have contributed significantly to the construction of the American Republic. Scholars have documented their experiences and explored their social, political, and cultural lives in countless books. Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland. As the only mass medium prior to the advent of radio, newspapers served to foster a sense of identity and a means of acculturation for those seeking to establish...
Blasted Literature
This text argues that Victorian popular fiction and modernism are linked by their treatment and exploitation of the explosive shocks of late 19th-century terrorism. Connecting the political vanguards of terrorism to the practice of the modernist avant-garde, it opens new ground in the study of Victorian and Edwardian literature.
Colón
Un concierto de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional en la Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires en 2008 y un discurso de Juan Domingo Perón en un acto de la CGT realizado en el Teatro Colón en 1947: dos escenas que parecen contrastantes y aisladas, pero en las que los caminos del arte y la política se cruzan, son el punto de partida de Gustavo Fernández Walker en este irreverente análisis de algunos discursos que tienen como objeto al Teatro Colón, ese símbolo tan poderoso que parece por momentos saturado de significaciones. Los episodios traumáticos que se vivieron en el Colón –bombas, conspiraciones, intentos de homicidio, refriegas fascistas y antifascistas, bailes sindicales– son ta...
Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle
This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Irish republicans, anarchists, workers and migrants.
Par ordre de la 3e section (ƒpisode dÕune traversŽe de lÕAtlantique)
Premier exemple de feuilleton du Matin en relation avec une actualité internationale, la nouvelle de Justin H. McCarthy met en scène les agissements de nihilistes russes, dans un cadre particulièrement propice au romanesque, au pittoresque et au dramatique : un paquebot en route pour New York.Flavian Hope, un jeune Anglais riche, éduqué et idéaliste, se rend en Russie où il tombe amoureux de Nathalie Sarowski, une belle et jeune Nihiliste. Hope rejoint les révolutionnaires et échoue à mener à bien sa mission lors d'une opération qui tourne mal.Il change de nom et émigre en Amérique pour commencer une nouvelle vie. À bord du paquebot Atlantis, il tombe amoureux d'une riche Américaine qui accepte de devenir sa femme malgré son passé trouble. Hope croit que ce passé est maintenant derrière lui et que son avenir paraît prometteur.Cet court roman est postfacé par Jean-Luc Buard qui en établit aussi la bibliographie et termine ce volume avec un essai d'inventaire bibliographique des romans nihilistes.
