Titlebook: Conrad’s Popular Fictions; Secret Histories and Andrew Glazzard Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Joseph Conra

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137559173Joseph Conrad; popular fiction; genre; detective fiction; espionage fiction; dynamite novel; invasion-scar

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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.978-1-137-55917-3

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,‘Armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society’: Detectives, Professionalism and Liberty ined Heat’s logical method here as ‘the science of deduction’, a process of inferential reasoning associated with the most famous fictional character in any genre at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. The genre was detective fiction, and the character was Sherlock Holmes.

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Introduction, Conrad’s propensity to appropriate surreptitiously his family’s reading material. If he saw his wife or one of his children reading a book, Conrad would ‘cruise around’ the family home ‘a(chǎn)nd pounce on it if we put it down while we went out of the room. When we returned the book had vanished and coul

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,‘Armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society’: Detectives, Professionalism and Liberty in the constable who has just collected the body parts and laid them on a waterproof sheet: ‘“You used a shovel, ” he remarked, observing a sprinkling of small gravel, tiny brown bits of bark, and particles of splintered wood as fine as needles’ (SA 71). Observing the data — the gravel, bark and splin

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,‘An actor in desperate earnest’: Informers and Secret Agency,t for the last eleven years that I hadn’t my finger in at the risk of my life. There’s scores of these revolutionists I’ve sent off with their bombs in their blamed pockets, to get themselves caught on the frontier’ (180). At this crucial point, with Winnie failing to come to terms with her husband’