David Mulry

Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists

Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50288-9
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781137502889
• ISBN-10: 1137502886
• Artikelnr.: 44518856

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"Clearly well-versed in Conrad and the genre of The Secret Agent, Mulry's explication and interpretation of anarchism leaves much to be desired. ... David Mulry's Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists is a text that should be investigated for those interested in The Secret Agent or Conrad's drafting and revisions processes ... ." (Michelle M. Campbell, Anarchist Studies, Vol. 26 (02), 2018)