Joseph Conrad : 'The secret agent' / / Cedric Watts

• Autore: Watts Cedric <1937->
• Pubblicazione: Tirril [England] ; ; Penrith, Calif., : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (83 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.912
• Soggetto topico: Spy stories, English - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Joseph Conrad
• ISBN: 1-282-04029-4; 9786612040290; 1-84760-032-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825478603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Humanities Insights