Conrad’s Popular Fictions

Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. As well as writing on Conrad, he has written on Arnold Bennett, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells.

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The All-Powerful Masses and the Limited Coterie: Conrad and Problems of Popularity 1. 'Armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society': Detectives, Professionalism, and Liberty in The Secret Agent 2. 'An actor in desperate earnest': Informers and Secret Agency 3. 'The inciter behind': Spymasters and the Eastern Logic of Russia 4. 'The cowardly bomb-throwing brutes': The Many Types of Conrad's 'Terrorists' 5. 'The Perpetrator of the Most Heartless Frauds': Swindlers, the New Economy, and the Limits of Narrative 6. Conclusion: Cooking the Books Notes Bibliography Index

“Glazzard examines themes such as espionage, diplomacy, investigation, and terrorism in Conrad’s work, tracing them back to popular contemporary texts … . A substantial work using an innovative approach, Conrad’s Popular Fictions could potentially serve as a reference point for future research on some of Conrad’s less frequently discussed writings. It is also recommended for those who are interested in turn-of-the-century English literature, culture,and the period’s sociological background.” (József Szabolcs Fagyal, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 24 (1), 2018)