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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 323–342

Chapter 19
From rainy Soho to sunny Kings Cross

Remapping and contemporizing Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent

Article outline
  • Sunny Kings Cross
  • Post Empire
  • A simple tale
  • Little brother is watching
  • A transmedial approach
  • The Secret Agent as Lone Wolf
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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