Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction

by Margaret Scanlan

Book Overview

Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind"--poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature, however, such a view becomes suspect. By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, Plotting Terror raises the possibility that the writer's relationship to actual politics may be considerably reduced in the age of television and the Internet.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920353
• ISBN13: 9780813920351
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher