- Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Vol: 11 Issue: 2
- Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*
Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*
Authors : Hafudh Farhood Abda Alsalim
Pages : 325-337
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Publication Date : 2014-12-01
Article Type : Research
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 (1905) and Under Western Eyes (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