Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists Nineteenth Century Terrorism and
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 no
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JOSEPH CONRAD AMONG THE ANARCHISTS David Mulry
Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists
David Mulry
Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent
David Mulry College of Coastal Georgia Brunswick, Georgia, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-50288-9 ISBN 978-1-137-49585-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-49585-3
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction
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2
Conrad and the Imaginative Shades
15
3
Popular Accounts of the Greenwich Bombing
39
4
The Dynamite Novel and The Secret Agent
73
5
The Anarchists in the House
103
6
“Verloc”: The Origins of the Text
119
7
Patterns of Revision inThe Secret Agent
133
8
The Perfect Detonator
163
Bibliography
185
Index
191
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LIST
Fig. 1.1 Fig. 2.1 Fig. 2.2 Fig. 3.1 Fig. 3.2 Fig. 4.1 Fig. 4.2 Fig. 5.1 Fig. 7.1 Fig. 7.2
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Vive La République, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107. July 7, 1894. 7 8 Misery, The Torch, No. 8, 18 January 1895. 7 28 The Dynamite Dragon, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 16, 1892. 188 32 Greenwich Park bomb location—The Times, 17 February 1894 45 The Were-Wolf of Anarchy, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, Dec 3, 1893: 290 60 The Modern Medusa, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, December 9, 1893: 270/271 75 Reckoning without their Host, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 7, 1892: 224 91 Winter, The Tor
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