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Autore |
Watts Cedric <1937-> |
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Titolo |
Joseph Conrad : 'The secret agent' / / Cedric Watts |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Tirril [England] ; ; Penrith, Calif., : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-04029-4 |
9786612040290 |
1-84760-032-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (83 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Spy stories, English - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Licence""; ""Title Page""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Contents ""; ""1. Editorial Note, Acknowledgements and Abbreviations""; ""2. Biographical""; ""Conrad's Progress""; ""3. The Composition of The Secret Agent and its Modes of Publication""; ""3.1. Composition""; ""3.2. The Serial and the First Book Edition""; ""3.3. The Stage Version""; ""4. The Opening, the Plot and the Narration""; ""4.1. The Title, Sub-Title and Dedication""; ""4.2. A Plot-Summary and Its Limitations""; ""4.3. The Ironic Method""; ""4.4. The Character of the Narrator"" |
""5. Themes, Sources and Contexts""""5.1. Preamble""; ""5.2. Time""; ""5.3. The Greenwich Bomb, Anarchists, Fenians and Jews""; ""5.4. Lavater, Lombroso, Physiognomy and Criminology""; ""5.5. Political Contexts""; ""6. Literary Influences and Analogues""; ""6.1. Dickens""; ""6.2. Naturalism, Zola and Ibsen""; ""6.3. Terrorist Fiction and The Premier and the Painter""; ""7. Analyses""; ""7.1. Temporalities""; ""7.2. Mind, Matter and Topography""; ""7.3. Aspects of Characterisation""; ""8. Critical Survey""; ""8.1. Contemporaneous Responses""; ""8.2. Subsequent Responses""; ""9. Conclusion"" |
""10. Bibliography """"Insights"" |
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