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Title The secret agent : centennial essays / edited by Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi ; UK : Joseph Conrad Society, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 185 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Conradian
Conradian.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword; Contributors; The Anarchist in the House: The Politics of Conrad's The Secret Agent; The Time of Death: "Passing Away" in The Secret Agent; A City that "disliked to be disturbed": London's Soundscape in The Secret Agent; "A heap of nameless fragments": Sacrifice, Cannibalism, and Fragmentation in The Secret Agent; No Escape: Liberation and the Ethics of Self-Governance in The Secret Agent; The Female Offender, the New Woman, and Winnie Verloc in The Secret Agent; Jews and Degenerates in The Secret Agent; Textualizing Liminality in The Secret Agent.
The Materialist-Scientific World View in The Secret AgentTosca's Kiss: Sardou, Puccini, and The Secret Agent; An Analogous Art: Conrad's The Secret Agent and John Virtue's London Paintings and Drawings; Four Notes on The Secret Agent: Sir William Harcourt, Ford and Helen Rossetti, Bourdin's Relations, and a Warning Against?; Conrad among the Anarchists: Documents on Martial Bourdin and the Greenwich Bombing.
Summary This collection of thirteen essays by writers from several countries lavishly celebrates the centenary of the publication of Conrad's The Secret Agent . It reconsiders one of Conrad's most important political novels from a variety of critical perspectives and presents a stimulating documentary section as well as specially commissioned maps and new contextualizing illustrations. Much new information is provided on the novel's sources, and the work is placed in new several contexts. The volume is essential reading on this novel both for students studying it as a set text as well as for scholars.
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Subject Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Secret agent (Conrad, Joseph)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Simmons, Allan, 1955-
Stape, J. H. (John Henry)
Other Form: Print version: Secret agent. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi ; UK : Joseph Conrad Society, ©2007 9042021764 9789042021761 (OCoLC)145554673
ISBN 9781435600676 (electronic book)
1435600673 (electronic book)
9789401204163
9401204160