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ANARCHISM in literature; FICTION genres; POLITICAL fiction; CHESTERTON, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; ANARCHISTS

Comments on the fiction genre called "dynamite romance," which focused on the anarchist bombings of the 19th-20th centuries. Similarity of the international anarchist movement, which emanated from different countries, to the terrorism that led to the bombings in London last month; The anarchists' preference for dynamite, which was used in an attempt to blow up the House of Parliament in 1605; Indication that HM Inspector of Explosibes, Colonel Vivian Dering Majendie recorded the anarchists' activities; View that the 19th century terrorist captured the public's imagination with a culture of the "dynamitard"; View that the surreal comedy "The Man Who Was Thursday," by G. K. Chesterton had an influence on literature.