Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists

Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50288-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3695 g

This booklooks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism.  David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel through the stages of the holograph manuscript, first as a short story, then as a serialized sensation fiction in Ridgway’s Militant Weekly for the American market, before it was extensively revised and published in novel form. Presciently anticipating the climate of modern terror, Conrad’s text responds to the failed Greenwich Bombing, the first anarchist atrocity to occur on English soil. This book charts its historical and cultural milieu via press and anarchist accounts of the bombing, to place Conrad foremost among the dynamite fiction of revolutionary anarchism and terrorism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.    

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulry, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction- Chapter 1: Conrad and the Imaginative Shades.- Popular Accounts of the Greenwich Bombing Bomb Sensation.- The Dynamite Novel and The Secret Agent.-  The Anarchists in the House. -  “Verloc”: The Origins of the Text.- Patterns of Revision in The Secret Agent.- The Perfect Detonator.- Notes. - Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

David Mulry is Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia, USA.