British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-08567-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 216 g

This book discusses British novels published during the 1970s which feature terrorists either as main characters or a major plot points. The focus on terrorism’s literary depiction provides insight into the politics of the decade. The book analyses texts from Gerald Seymour, Anthony Burgess, V.S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, B.S. Johnson, Tom Sharpe, and Eric Ambler, among others, in order to engage with the IRA, the end of Empire, counterculture and environmentalism. The book provides a brief history of terrorism as a concept and tactic before discussing British literature’s relationship with terrorism. It presents a “standard terrorist morphology” by which to analyse terrorist narratives along with other insights into the British post-war imagination, writing and extremism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darlington, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. A Short History of Terrorism as Concept and Tactic.- 3. The Terrorist Novel, Thriller and Postcolonial Britain.- 4. Writing the IRA from the Mainland.- 5. Counter-cultural Writers and the Angry Brigade.- 6. Environmentalists and Conservationists.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Darlington is Programme Leader for BA(Hons) Digital Animation with Illustration at Futureworks Media School. His completed a PhD in 2014 on British experimental novelists, was awarded a Harry Ransom Fellowship and is co-editor of BSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal . He has published widely on literature, culture and technology.