1st Edition

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel

By Barbara Arnett Melchiori Copyright 1985
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1985, this book looks at the ways in which the spate of terrorist activity in the 1880s was reflected in the novels of the time. Oscar Wilde, George Gissing, Henry James and George Bernard Shaw among others gave the terrorist venture a position in one or more of their novels. This book examines what these novelists made of terrorism and the way they presented it to their... Read more

Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Infernal Machines 2. ‘Resources of Civilisation’ 3. Peccant Engines 4. ‘God Bless Thim Guns!’ 5. Dynamite Falls on Castle Walls 6. The Pillar at Tobolsk 7. Dynamite and Democracy 8. Dynamite Romances; Index

Biography

Barbara Arnett Melchiori