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This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian
urban writing in response both to London's growing size and
diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya
Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism,
modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of
writers throughout the nineteenth century - including William
Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur
Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad - explored the ethical, social and
political implications of globalization. Showcasing a variety of
different genres, Agathocleous uses the lens of cosmopolitan
realism - the literary techniques used to transform the city into
an image of the world - to explain how texts that seem glaringly
dissimilar actually emerged from the same historical concept, and
in doing so presents startlingly new ways of thinking about the
meaning and effect of cosmopolitanism.
This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian
urban writing in response both to London's growing size and
diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya
Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism,
modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of
writers throughout the nineteenth century - including William
Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur
Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad - explored the ethical, social and
political implications of globalization. Showcasing a variety of
different genres, Agathocleous uses the lens of cosmopolitan
realism - the literary techniques used to transform the city into
an image of the world - to explain how texts that seem glaringly
dissimilar actually emerged from the same historical concept, and
in doing so presents startlingly new ways of thinking about the
meaning and effect of cosmopolitanism.
Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the
overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After
1857, the British government began censoring the press in India,
culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that
used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of
writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya
Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing
that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as
they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a,
which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day
India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the
colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism
and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public.
Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law,
literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating how the
criminalization of political alienation and dissent has shaped
literary form and the political imagination.
Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the
overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After
1857, the British government began censoring the press in India,
culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that
used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of
writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya
Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing
that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as
they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a,
which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day
India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the
colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism
and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public.
Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law,
literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating how the
criminalization of political alienation and dissent has shaped
literary form and the political imagination.
The Secret Agent 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, The Secret Agent is
both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly
relevant today. This 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.
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