Online resources: Chesterton and Conrad

While the world eagerly awaits my next lump of exposition, here are some resources available online that I want to keep track of:

• A short pamphlet on "the place of Gilbert Chesterton in English letters," written by Hilaire Belloc in 1940.
• Gilbert! Their statement of purpose explains that "Gilbert! magazine is focused on the G.K. Chesterton approach to today’s issues, questions, and interests. We feature the widest possible variety of presentations and interpretations of Chesterton (short of deviltry)." Aw. (Observe, as a datum in the universe of overlapping fandoms, the featured link to a contributor's lay entitled "Meriadoc of the Shire, Rider of Rohan," which was to be published in the December 2003 issue but had to be trimmed for reasons of space. Why, one might ask, is "the magazine of G. K. Chesterton" in the market of publishing ballads about hobbits? Part of the explanation is that Inklings were Chesterton's literary descendants, but somehow it seems a bit back-to-front to me to consider a faux-Tolkein, faux-medieval verse to be part of the "Chesterton approach to today’s issues, questions, and interests." My guess is that it's in there less because it's directly traceable to Chesterton than because the same people who love Chesterton tend to love those other mythopoeic writers, too.)
• A searchable etext of the at-first delightful but increasingly jarring The Man Who Knew Too Much.
• "A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls," 1901.
• An etext edition of The Secret Agent, which conveniently includes the author's note, omitted from the edition of the novel that I own. Grumble.
• Deborah Knight, "Making Sense of Genre," 1994. A discussion of the merits and flaws of the "formal-cognitivist gambit," though unfortunately enough degrees removed from the source (it's largely a review of the work of Noel Carroll) that it doesn't involve any reference to actual research in cognitive studies, rational-choice theory, etc.

Coming soon: more stuff about Conrad and Chesterton; journalists and elitism in fact and fiction.

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