Conrad’s Popular Fictions

Secret Histories and Sensational Novels

• Author(s): Andrew Glazzard,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 227
• ISBN_10: 1137559179
  ISBN_13: 9781137559173
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / European / General , Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers: these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how Joseph Conrad experimented creatively with genres such as crime and espionage fiction, and sheds new light on the sources and contexts of his work.