The secret agent : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Joseph Conrad ; Edited by Richard Niland, University of Strathclyde.

Author: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, author.

Edition Statement:First edition.

ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Descriptionviii, 386 pages ; 22 cm.

Note:The text of The secret agent --Backgrounds and context -- The informer (1908) / Joseph Conrad -- Contemporary reviews of the secret agent (1907) -- Mr. Conrad's tale of anarchists / Anonymous -- from The Scotsman / Anonymous -- from The Times Literary Supplement / [Edward Verrall Lucas] -- from The New York Tribune / Anonymous -- A grossly material tale by a master writer / Anonymous -- Not a detective story / Anonymous -- Contemporary sources and debates -- Author's note to The secret agent (1920) / Joseph Conrad -- Anarchism at home and abroad (1894) / Pall Mall Gazette -- from The Greenwhich mystery (1897) / David Nicoll -- from A girl among the anarchists (1903) / Isabel Meredith -- from Sidelights on the home rule movement (1906) / Robert Anderson -- from Anarchism (1910) / Peter Kropotkin -- from Degeneration (1895) / Max Nordau -- Criticism -- The political and social background of The secret agent / Ian Watt -- Form, ideology and The secret agent / Terry Eagleton -- Conrad, Nordau, and other degenerates: the psychology The secret agent / Martin Ray -- A pier-glass in the cavern: the construction of London in The secret agent / Hugh Epstein -- Empire, patriarchy and The secret agent / Gail Fincham -- Reading The secret agent now: the press, the police, and the premonition of simulation / Peter Lancelot Mallios -- Four notes on The secret agent: Sir William Harcourt, Ford and Helen Rossetti, Boudin's relations, and a warning against [delta] / Michael Newton -- Joseph Conrad: a chronology.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386).

Note:"Set in London in 1886, The Secret Agent tells the story of Mr. Verloc, an agent provocateur for a mysterious foreign power. When Mr. Verloc is charged with bombing the Greenwich Observatory, his carefully crafted life unravels before his eyes. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the text of the first English book edition published in 1907. The text comes paired with explanatory footnotes and an introduction by the editor. "Contexts" includes a wide range of contemporary reviews of the novel, Conrad's short story "The Informer," and further reading on anarchism and fin de siecle culture. "Criticism" compiles a range of approaches to studying the novel that spans from the late twentieth century to the present. Selections from Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Jacques Berthoud, Peter Mallios, and Michael Newton examine the novel through literary and political lenses that relate the work to the modern day. A Selected Bibliography is also included."-- Provided by publisher.

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