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Conrad’s Popular Fictions

Secret Histories and Sensational Novels

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  • © 2016

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  1. Andrew Glazzard
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 1-25

  3. ‘Armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society’: Detectives, Professionalism and Liberty in The Secret Agent

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 26-58

  4. ‘An actor in desperate earnest’: Informers and Secret Agency

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 59-84

  5. ‘The inciter behind’: Spymasters and the Eastern Logic of Russia

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 85-110

  6. ‘The cowardly bomb-throwing brutes’: The Many Types of Conrad’s ‘Terrorists’

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 111-143

  7. ‘The perpetrator of the most heartless frauds’: Swindlers, the New Economy and the Limits of Narrative

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 144-174

  8. Conclusion

    • Andrew Glazzard
    Pages 175-183

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 184-227
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About this book

Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers: these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how Joseph Conrad experimented creatively with genres such as crime and espionage fiction, and sheds new light on the sources and contexts of his work.

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“Glazzard examines themes such as espionage, diplomacy, investigation, and terrorism in Conrad’s work, tracing them back to popular contemporary texts … . A substantial work using an innovative approach, Conrad’s Popular Fictions could potentially serve as a reference point for future research on some of Conrad’s less frequently discussed writings. It is also recommended for those who are interested in turn-of-the-century English literature, culture,and the period’s sociological background.” (József Szabolcs Fagyal, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 24 (1), 2018)

About the author

Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. As well as writing on Conrad, he has written on Arnold Bennett, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells.

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