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The Secret Agent : Centennial Essays
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Allan H.
- Series:
- Conradian, 32.1
- Conradian, 32.1 ; v.v. 32,1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent--Concordances.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent.
- Local Subjects:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent--Concordances.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- 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 Δ; Conrad among the Anarchists: Documents on Martial Bourdin and the Greenwich Bombing
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789401204163
- 9401204160
- 9781435600676
- 1435600673
- OCLC:
- 714567216
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