"… Frost's Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics invites interest from readers across a
wide range of disciplinary interests from book history to media studies, and not least, of …

In Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907), the anarchists do not do anything, yet they let
things happen. Conrad develops a trope of the fat anarchist, into which he instills a set of …

This essay offers a transgeneric reading of Graham Greene's 1943 novel The Ministry of
Fear, first tracing the emergence of spy fiction from invasion fiction at the end of the …

The modelling of our desires as they are mediated through goods is most often done by
economics: not only by that discipline but by an institutionalised version of that discipline …

In his 1908 review of A Set of Six, Robert Lynd famously referred to Conrad as 'a homeless
person','without either country or language'. 2 Lynd describes Conrad as 'a Pole, who writes …

This thesis analyses and interrogates selected and significant works of Anglophone fiction
that offer literary representations of the Indian Ocean region. Whilst much has been written of …

Nostromo was written in response to recent and contemporary events, including the Spanish-
American War of 1898 and its aftermath. This engagement with the contemporary was also …

Spy fiction has invariably proved to be an accurate barometer of political anxieties, at times
even a potent fomenter of public paranoia in its own right, and it owes this uncanny ability to …

This thesis explores how Joseph Conrad's spy fictions embody and express the coalescing
paradigm shifts of migration, technology, nation building, and espionage at the turn of the …

The monolithic terms' Victorianism'and'Modernism'have been placed under increased
scholarly scrutiny, producing fruitful research which seeks to assess the multifaceted ways in …