{"product_id":"the-secret-agent-9781551117843","title":"The Secret Agent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad's preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tanya Agathocleous’s edition of Joseph Conrad’s \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e, a tale of espionage in the age of ennui, is an excellent, important, and timely addition to the Broadview list. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the novel uncannily speaks to a range of concerns that continue to preoccupy us—metropolitanism and cosmopolitanism, political terror, degeneracy and the “ends” of history, the collapse of boundaries between domestic and public life, the State’s intrusion into the lives of its citizens—issues that insist on a deep and careful understanding of their historical antecedents. Professor Agathocleous has judiciously selected materials from Conrad’s moment that will effectively immerse students in the social, political, and intellectual milieu of Conrad’s novel.” — Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An outstanding edition. First-time readers will welcome the eloquent introductory essay, which places \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e in the context of both Victorianism and modernism, as well as the very useful supplementary materials on anarchism and degeneration. And those already familiar with the novel will be prompted to re-read it in light of Agathocleous’s claim that Conrad, along with his New Woman contemporaries, is exploring marriage and the condition of women as well.” — Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Charles Dickens, \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e (1853)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Ford Madox Hueffer, \u003cem\u003eThe Soul of London\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eA Survey of a Modern City\u003c\/em\u003e (1905)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Anarchism and Terrorism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (16 February 1894)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Isabel Meredith, \u003cem\u003eA Girl Among the Anarchists\u003c\/em\u003e (1903)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Joseph Conrad, a letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (20 December 1897)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Joseph Conrad, a letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (7 October 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism,” \u003cem\u003eEncyclopaedia Britannica\u003c\/em\u003e (1910)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Kropotkin, “The Scientific Bases of Anarchy” (1887)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eReport of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration\u003c\/em\u003e (1903)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e (9 June 1906)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Degeneration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Charles Darwin, \u003cem\u003eExpression of the Emotions in Man and Animal\u003c\/em\u003e (1872)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom E. Ray Lankester, \u003cem\u003eDegeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism\u003c\/em\u003e (1880)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Cesare Lombroso, “Illustrative Studies in Criminal Anthropology: The Physiognomy of the Anarchists” (1890)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Max Nordau, \u003cem\u003eDegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e (1892)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Heat Death, Entropy, and Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom William Thomson, “On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy” (1852)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom William Thomson, “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat” (1862)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Garden of Proserpine” (1866)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Balfour Stewart and J. Norman Lockyer, “The Sun as a Type of the Material Universe” (1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E: Marriage and Feminism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Coventry Patmore, “The Angel in the House” (1863)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Ruskin, \u003cem\u003eSesame and Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e (1865)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Mona Caird, “Marriage” (1888)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question” (1894)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Hugh E.M. Stutfield, “The Psychology of Feminism” (1897)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix F: Contemporary Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/em\u003e (21 September 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE.V. Lucas, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e (20 September 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e (21 September 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdward Garnett, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e (26 September 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Morton Payne, \u003cem\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/em\u003e (16 October 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eGlasgow News\u003c\/em\u003e (3 October 1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Galsworthy, \u003cem\u003eFortnightly Review\u003c\/em\u003e (1 April 1908)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041306542423,"sku":"9781551117843","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551117843.jpg?v=1750949744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-agent-9781551117843","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}