Plotting Terror
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...
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...
