Blasted Literature

Dynamite novels meet highbrow modernism via the impact of terrorism Between 1880 and 1915, a range of writers exploited terrorism's political shocks for their own artistic ends. Drawing on late-Victorian 'dynamite novels' by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Greer and Robert Thynne, radical journals and papers, such as The Irish People , The Torch , Anarchy and Freiheit , and modernist writing from H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad to the compulsively militant modernism of Wyndham Lewis a