Conrads Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels by Andrew Glaz

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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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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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

Review

"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)

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Conrad's Popular Fictions examines the influence on Joseph Conrad's fiction of some of the most popular genres of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, such as detective and espionage fiction, the terrorist novel, and invasion-scare fiction. By exploring five character-types - detectives, informers, spymasters, terrorists, and swindlers - in over a hundred Victorian and Edwardian popular novels as well as in Conrad's works, it shows how Conrad experimented creatively with genres, deploying the themes and tropes of popular fiction to develop psychological and philosophical insights and achieve extraordinary aesthetic effects. By recovering forgotten contexts for Conrad's fictions, this book shows how Conrad's work as well as the period's popular fiction exploited topical, newsworthy events. It argues that Conrad was never simply a highbrow writer, but used genre in different ways in different works to find new audiences - which he sought simultaneously to challenge and satisfy.

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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." (J

Details ISBN1137559160 Author Andrew Glazzard Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 2015 ISBN-10 1137559160 ISBN-13 9781137559166 Format Hardcover Language English Media Book DEWEY 823.912 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Secret Histories and Sensational Novels Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2015-10-29 Short Title CONRAD S POPULAR FICTIONS 2016 Edition 1st Pages 227 UK Release Date 2015-10-29 AU Release Date 2015-10-29 NZ Release Date 2015-10-29 Illustrations VII, 227 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 2016 Alternative 9781349556939 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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