{"product_id":"plotting-terror-margaret-scanlan-9780813920351","title":"Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Scanlan traces the figure of the writer as rival or double of the terrorist from its origins in the romantic conviction of the writer's originality and power through a century of political, social, and technological developments that undermine that belief. She argues that serious writers like Friedrich D?renmatt, Doris Lessing, and Don DeLillo imagine a contemporary writer's encounter with terrorists as a test of the old alliance between writer and revolutionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter considering the possibility that televised terrorism is replacing the novel, or that writing, as contemporary theory would have it, is itself a form of violence, Scanlan asks whether the revolutionary impulse itself is dying--in politics as much as in literature. Her analyses take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the relationship between actual bombs and stories about bombings, from the modern world to its electronic representation, and from the exercise of political power to the fiction writer's power in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Scanlan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813920353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813920351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 71 - Recommended\/Special Interest","brand":"Margaret Scanlan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059830812927,"sku":"9780813920351","price":23.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e9c67c2-d303-4ce6-bca7-c77b02ea4739.jpg?v=1685060575","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plotting-terror-margaret-scanlan-9780813920351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}