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Conrad's Reading - Space, Time, Networks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Conrad's Reading - Space, Time, Networks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: New Directions in Book History
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This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new
literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative
three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of
reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and
of Conrad's many fictional representations of reading, illuminates
his childhood, maritime and later shore-based reading. After an
overview of the empirical evidence of Conrad's reading, his
sparsely documented twenty years reading at sea and in port is
reconstructed. An examination the reading practices of his famous
narrator Marlow then serves to link Conrad's own maritime and
shore-based reading. Conrad's subsequent networked reading, shared
with his closest male friends, and with literate multilingual
women, is examined within the context of Edwardian reading
practices. His fictional representations of reading and material
texts are highlighted throughout, including genre trends,
periodical reading, reading spaces and their lighting, and the use
of reading as therapy. The book should appeal both to Conrad
scholars and to historians of reading.
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