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Joseph Conrad : 'The secret agent' / Cedric Watts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Cedric, 1937-
- Series:
- Humanities Insights
- Literature insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Spy stories, English--History and criticism.
- Spy stories, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tirril [England] ; Penrith, Calif. : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This critical and contextual study sheds new light on Conrad s topical novel of espionage and terrorism. A biographical chapter relates The Secret Agent to Conrad s career. Next, the work s process of composition is discussed, and differences between the"
- Contents:
- ""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Licence""; ""Title Page""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Contents ""; ""1. Editorial Note, Acknowledgements and Abbreviations""; ""2. Biographical""; ""Conrad's Progress""; ""3. The Composition of The Secret Agent and its Modes of Publication""; ""3.1. Composition""; ""3.2. The Serial and the First Book Edition""; ""3.3. The Stage Version""; ""4. The Opening, the Plot and the Narration""; ""4.1. The Title, Sub-Title and Dedication""; ""4.2. A Plot-Summary and Its Limitations""; ""4.3. The Ironic Method""; ""4.4. The Character of the Narrator""
- ""5. Themes, Sources and Contexts""""5.1. Preamble""; ""5.2. Time""; ""5.3. The Greenwich Bomb, Anarchists, Fenians and Jews""; ""5.4. Lavater, Lombroso, Physiognomy and Criminology""; ""5.5. Political Contexts""; ""6. Literary Influences and Analogues""; ""6.1. Dickens""; ""6.2. Naturalism, Zola and Ibsen""; ""6.3. Terrorist Fiction and The Premier and the Painter""; ""7. Analyses""; ""7.1. Temporalities""; ""7.2. Mind, Matter and Topography""; ""7.3. Aspects of Characterisation""; ""8. Critical Survey""; ""8.1. Contemporaneous Responses""; ""8.2. Subsequent Responses""; ""9. Conclusion""
- ""10. Bibliography """"Insights""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-04029-4
- 9786612040290
- 1-84760-032-8
- OCLC:
- 697474332
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