Overview
Examines works by well-known authors such as Graham Greene and Doris Lessing, alongside works from lesser-studied writers such as Eric Ambler and Fredrick Forsyth
Considers a wide variety of terrorist groups, from the Provisional IRA to The Angry Brigade
Situates and rationalises the wealth of 1970s terrorism novels in their historical and political contexts
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s
Authors: Joseph Darlington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77896-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77895-2Published: 01 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08567-4Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77896-9Published: 19 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 152
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature