`Blasted Literature is a remarkable study of the complex circuits of influence between political terror, popular fiction and early modernism, ranging from the nineteenth-century dynamite novel to the shock tactics of Vorticist aesthetics. Theoretically sophisticated and historically nuanced, this rich and compelling book brings fresh insight to our understanding of the fin-de-siecle and its legacies.' ---David Glover, University of Southampton<BR><BR>`Blasted Literature provocatively shows how modernism's "shock of the new" did not simply explode upon the literary scene in the early-twentieth century but evolved steadily in the pages of penny dreadfuls, popular fiction, and avant-garde periodicals during the three decades prior to the War. O Donghaile convincingly demonstrates the inextricability of aesthetics and imperial politics in the turn-of-the-century metropolis.'---Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University<BR><BR>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, Deagldn O Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influenced by the explosive shocks of late nineteenth-century terrorism. For the first time, late-Victorian `dynamite novels', radical journalism and modernist writing are brought together in provocative readings of Henry James, R. L. Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Wyndham Lewis.<BR><BR>Deaglan O Donghaile lectures in nineteenth-century literature and culture at the University of Salford.