Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*

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Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Volume:11 Issue:2
Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*

Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*

Authors : Hafudh Farhood Abda ALSALİM

Pages : 325-337

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Publication Date : 2014-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The Secret Agent, published in 1907, is a detective novel by Joseph Conrad, the well-known Polish-English novelist, and it is classified as one of Conrad’s political novels, together with Nostromo insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1905); and Under Western Eyes insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1911);. The Secret Agent, particularly because of its theme of terrorism and the violence it depicts, has become famous again in the US after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and after the recent suicide bombings that have occurred in Europe. The novel describes the period of the fear of the dynamite-throwing anarchist that disturbed the European society from the 1880s through the early part of the twentieth century.
Keywords : Conrad, Terrorism, The Secret Agent

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