College of Coastal Georgia
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
An examination of the various accounts of the Greenwich bombing at the heart of "The Secret Agent," and their possible effect upon Conrad's narrative choices and decisions.
- by David Mulry
(featured in) A radio documentary (downloadable mp3) examining The Secret Agent and its enduring legacy in the modern era of terroristic outrage.
- by David Mulry
Commentary/Opinion on the problems facing academics in the Community College setting and the need for academic and professional freedom.
- by David Mulry
Close examination of textual shifts, revisions and variations in the holograph, serial and novel versions of 'The Secret Agent' with a revealed drift towards political militancy. This article has recently been republished online at... more
- by David Mulry
An examination of the anarchist figures in the novel and their importance as philosophical and historical signifiers. Also available in "The Secret Agent: Centennial Essays," by Rodopi Press, 2007.
- by David Mulry
Looking at “The End of the Tether” in terms of its narrative strategies and the Modern context that places it alongside innovative works like “Heart of Darkness.” The link above will take you to an audio version of the essay at my... more
- by David Mulry
Examining Wordsworth's “To The Cuckoo” as an image of transition and change in Romantic poetry and Folklore, and in comparison to other poems like Shelley's "West Wind" and Keats's "Sonnet on the Sonnet."
- by David Mulry
A discussion of fiscal pressure versus pedagogy in English departments
- by David Mulry
Examining Turgenev's essay on Don Quixote and Hamlet as a key to Conrad's aesthetic and the duality in characterization in Conrad’s "Under Western Eyes."
- by David Mulry
Examines Pickering and Chatto's 2009 volume edited by Keith Carabine which frames Conrad in a sequence of perspectives and key documents from his period.
- by David Mulry
A chapter on digital writing concentrating on Blogging and micro-blogging for the Cengage digital writing project.
- by David Mulry
A satirical piece about the inroads being made into faculty governance and the mission of the university because of recession claims of financial exigency.
- by David Mulry
Evaluating Conrad’s use of and revision of Romantic themes in Nostromo--arguing that Conrad knowingly appropriated elements from the Romantic tradition to place himself in the British canon, but subverted and destabilized them.
- by David Mulry
Exploring Conrad’s treatment of lost innocence and the "ruined" woman in the selected short fiction (focusing on "A Smile of Fortune,") reevaluating Conrad's "masculinist" fiction.
- by David Mulry
Conrad’s treatment of patterns of decline and the divided self—as a Darwinian reading of late nineteenth century fantasies like "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," "The Invisible Man" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
- by David Mulry
Examining Turgenev's essay on Don Quixote and Hamlet as a key to Conrad's aesthetic and the duality in characterization in Conrad’s "Under Western Eyes."
- by David Mulry
Breakfast breakout session: looking at ways to raise awareness of your discipline in the academic community and for prospective students
- by David Mulry
Co-leading Best Practices discussion and workshop for Department Chairs at CIC leadership conference, Louisville, Kentucky (conference designed to introduce new chairs to their role).
- by David Mulry
Part of a broader writing project on The Secret Agent, this examines the "dynamite novel" genre of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, to see where and how Conrad's anarchist novel fits in.
- by David Mulry
This paper is a further development of a piece that I originally began exploring at the MLA conference in Philadelphia in 2011, and part of an ongoing writing project. The original focus compared Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer” with other... more
- by David Mulry