Terrorism and Literature

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter C. Herman
Part I. Origins: The Varieties of Terrorism:
1. Savagery and the sacred: the rhetoric of terror and its consequences in the scriptural monotheisms Reuven Firestone
2. Early modern terrorism Robert Appelbaum
3. 'Carrying patriotism in their hearts': the terror in the French Revolution Lindsay Parker
4. Methodology and martyrs: Irish American Republicanism in the late nineteenth century Gillian O'Brien
5. 'Play's the thing': how governments in nineteenth and early twentieth century North America used 'terrorism to further their own ends Nathan Greenfield
6. The nation-state's other: postcolonial terrorism in the Indian context Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
7. Conflict and violence in the early Northern-Irish troubles Simon Prince
8. Social-revolutionary violence in Western Europe: the case of the Red Brigades' trajectory, during the 1970s and early 1980s Lorenzo Bosi
9. Terrorism in the Middle East David Cook
Part II. Development: Terrorism in Literature:
10. Terrorism in literature to 1642 Robert Appelbaum
11. 'Terror in inquisition': terrorists and inquisitors in the British Gothic literature of the 1790s Joseph Crawford
12. 'Parliament is burning': dynamite, terrorism and the English novel Deaglán Ó Donghaile
13. Dostoevsky's terrorism trilogy Lynn Patyk
14. Perils and pleasures of the bloody oath: the nihilist conspiracy in American popular fiction, 1881–1901 Ann Larabaee
15. Staging the limit: Albert Camus's just assassins and the il/legitimacy of terrorism Ève Morisi
16. Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and terrorism on film Tony Shaw
17. 'Something in the making': writing in the troubles and the singularity of Northern Irish literature Tom Walker
18. No heroes in a cycle of violence: collaborators, perpetrators and the never-ending terror of the Arab-Israeli conflict Rachel S. Harris
19. 'Why do they hate us?' Terrorists in American and British fiction of the mid-2000s Michael C. Frank
20. Terrorism in theory David Simpson
Part III. Applications: Terrorism Today:
21. Sympathy for the devil: evil, taboo, and the terrorist figure in literature Richard Jackson
22. War after war: terrorism and retaliation in Don DeLillo's Point Omega Linda Kauffman
23. Conceptual confusion: the ambiguities of the war on terror in Roy-Bhattacharya's The Watch and O'Hagan's The Illuminations Tim Gauthier
24. Terror, testament, and trial Ian Ward
25. Global terror/global literature Daniel O'Gorman
26. Recipient unknown: terrorism and the other in post-9/11 American poetry Ann Keniston
27. Samson among the terrorologists Peter C. Herman
28. Afterword Alex Houen.

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