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Control # 1 2016018373
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20201001111049.0
Fixed Data 8 160620s2017 nyu b 000 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2016018373
ISBN 20    $a9780393937442$q(softcover)
Obsolete 39    $a322488$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aPR6005.O4$bS4 2017
Dewey Class 82 00 $a823/.912$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aConrad, Joseph,$d1857-1924,$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe secret agent :$bauthoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /$cJoseph Conrad ; Edited by Richard Niland, University of Strathclyde.
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bW. W. Norton & Company,$c[2017]
Phys Descrpt 300    $aviii, 386 pages ;$c22 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aNorton critical edition
Abstract 520    $a"Set in London in 1886, The Secret Agent tells the story of Mr. Verloc, an agent provocateur for a mysterious foreign power. When Mr. Verloc is charged with bombing the Greenwich Observatory, his carefully crafted life unravels before his eyes. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the text of the first English book edition published in 1907. The text comes paired with explanatory footnotes and an introduction by the editor. "Contexts" includes a wide range of contemporary reviews of the novel, Conrad's short story "The Informer," and further reading on anarchism and fin de siecle culture. "Criticism" compiles a range of approaches to studying the novel that spans from the late twentieth century to the present. Selections from Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Jacques Berthoud, Peter Mallios, and Michael Newton examine the novel through literary and political lenses that relate the work to the modern day. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--$cProvided by publisher.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-386).
Note:Content 505 $aThe 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.
Subj:Corp 610 20 $aRoyal Greenwich Observatory$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aConspiracies$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAnarchists$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBombings$vFiction.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aConrad, Joseph,$d1857-1924.$tSecret agent.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aSpy fiction.$2lcgft
AE:Pers Name 700 $aNiland, Richard,$d1978-$eeditor.
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aNorton critical edition.