Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Shock, Politics, Literature 1
6. Chapter 1 Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and the City of Encounters 27
7. Chapter 2 Imperialism and the Late Victorian Dynamite Novel 61
8. Chapter 3 Exploiting the Apostles of Destruction: Anarchism, Modernism and the Penny Dreadful 94
9. Chapter 4 ‘The Doctrine of Dynamite’: Anarchist Literature and Terrorist Violence 136
10. Chapter 5 Shock Modernism: Blast and the Radical Politics of Vorticism 179
11. Conclusion: Literature and ‘the resources of civilization’ 226
12. Bibliography of Cited Works 240
13. Index 255