MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (1997) - Conrad's Pornography Shop
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- article: Conrad's Pornography Shop
- author(s): Rishona Zimring
- journal: MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (24/Jun/1997)
- issue: volume 43, issue 2, pages 319-348
- DOI: 10.1353/mfs.1997.0055
- journal ISSN: 0026-7724
- publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, British Film Institute, Chicago, Illinois, Frederic Jameson, H.G. Wells, James Bond, John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, London, England, New York City, New York, Paramount Pictures, Paul Gordon, Rich and Strange (1931), Richard Hannay, River Thames, London, Sabotage (1936), Terry Teachout, The 39 Steps (1935)
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Abstract
Zimring argues that Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" is a key work in the history of espionage fiction that illuminates the genre's foundation inf ears about disruptive women and foreigners.