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Conrad’s relationship with the extremist is examined through his professed, “Every extremist is respectable,” and the Professor’s search for the Perfect Detonator is considered as an artistic and aesthetic model with implications for Conrad’s modernist aesthetic in general, and his emerging novel in particular. His relationship is put in the context of Degeneration theories of fin de siècle Europe which grouped Moderns—artists and anarchists—in the same broad group of decadents as characteristic types of the modern age.
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Mulry, D. (2016). The Perfect Detonator. In: Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49585-3_8
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