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Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists

Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    • David Mulry
    Pages 1-13
  3. Conrad and the Imaginative Shades

    • David Mulry
    Pages 15-37
  4. The Anarchists in the House

    • David Mulry
    Pages 103-118
  5. The Perfect Detonator

    • David Mulry
    Pages 163-184
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 185-194

About this book

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.    



Reviews

“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Coastal Georgia , Brunswick, USA

    David Mulry

About the author

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



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