Conrad's popular fictions : secret histories and sensational novels
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Conrad's popular fictions : secret histories and sensational novels
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-218) and index
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内容説明
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.
目次
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The All-Powerful Masses and the Limited Coterie: Conrad and Problems of Popularity 1. 'Armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society': Detectives, Professionalism, and Liberty in The Secret Agent 2. 'An actor in desperate earnest': Informers and Secret Agency 3. 'The inciter behind': Spymasters and the Eastern Logic of Russia 4. 'The cowardly bomb-throwing brutes': The Many Types of Conrad's 'Terrorists' 5. 'The Perpetrator of the Most Heartless Frauds': Swindlers, the New Economy, and the Limits of Narrative 6. Conclusion: Cooking the Books Notes Bibliography Index
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