Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- 1. Editorial Note, Acknowledgements and Abbreviations -- 2. Biographical -- Conrad's Progress -- 3. The Composition of The Secret Agent and its Modes of Publication -- 3.1. Composition -- 3.2. The Serial and the First Book Edition -- 3.3. The Stage Version -- 4. The Opening, the Plot and the Narration -- 4.1. The Title, Sub-Title and Dedication -- 4.2. A Plot-Summary and Its Limitations -- 4.3. The Ironic Method -- 4.4. The Character of the Narrator -- 5. Themes, Sources and Contexts -- 5.1. Preamble -- 5.2. Time -- 5.3. The Greenwich Bomb, Anarchists, Fenians and Jews -- 5.4. Lavater, Lombroso, Physiognomy and Criminology -- 5.5. Political Contexts -- 6. Literary Influences and Analogues -- 6.1. Dickens -- 6.2. Naturalism, Zola and Ibsen -- 6.3. Terrorist Fiction and The Premier and the Painter -- 7. Analyses -- 7.1. Temporalities -- 7.2. Mind, Matter and Topography -- 7.3. Aspects of Characterisation -- 8. Critical Survey -- 8.1. Contemporaneous Responses -- 8.2. Subsequent Responses -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. Bibliography -- Insights.