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London's Burning - Pulp Fiction, the Politics of Terrorism and the Destruction of the Capital in British Popular Culture, 1840 - 2005 (Hardcover, New)
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London's Burning - Pulp Fiction, the Politics of Terrorism and the Destruction of the Capital in British Popular Culture, 1840 - 2005 (Hardcover, New)
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This title provides a reading of the popular fiction of London
historicized in its political and cultural contexts. From the early
years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in
fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction
of London. Periods of popular protest or radicalism generated
novels that considered the methods insurgents might use to
terrorise the metropolis. There has been a tendency to dismiss such
writings as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but this book
re-evaluates the contribution of popular fiction to the
construction of the terrorist threat. It analyses the high-points
for the production of such works, and locates them in their
cultural and historical context. From the 1840s, when a fear of
Chartist insurgency was paramount in the minds of authors, it moves
through the anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers writers'
fears about Bolshevik revolution in the East End of the 1920s and
1930s, explores fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and
assesses the concerns with underground counter-culture that feature
in the thriller literature of the 1970s. It concludes with a
re-evaluation of the metropolitan background to the figure of the
Islamist terrorist.
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