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Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (five volumes) is an
indispensable resource for Conrad specialists and students of
literary Modernism generally, aiming to provide as complete a view
as possible of the contemporary reception of Joseph Conrad's works
in the English-speaking world. These volumes offer insights into
early twentieth-century reviewing practices, the marketing of
literary fiction and the wide interest in such writing, as reviews
of Conrad's work regularly appeared in provincial and colonial
newspapers. Contemporary Reviews Volume 5 offers previously
unavailable reviews spanning Conrad's career, from Almayer's Folly
(1895) to Last Essays (1926). The nearly one thousand reviews
collected here chart the consolidation of Conrad's reputation as a
major English author, recording his impact upon late-Victorian
literature and demonstrating how he helped shape literary
Modernism. Articulating areas of critical interest that continue to
attract readers and commentators today, the Contemporary Reviews
confirm Conrad's growing stature in the colonial literary
marketplace.
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Tales of Unrest (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Allan H. Simmons, J.H. Stape
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R3,946
Discovery Miles 39 460
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The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a
turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story
collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft
staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The
introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's
career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The
explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and
real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six
illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text
lays out the history of the work's composition and publication,
details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors,
and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through
modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his
preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so
far printed.
Joseph Conrad is one of the great figures in the tradition of the
novel. This clear and well-written study provides a
critically-informed introduction to Conrad and his work, placing
him in his political, social and literary context, and examining
his relationship to Modernism, England and Empire. Organised
thematically - broaching the leading themes of race, the sea and
nationalism - Allan H. Simmons covers the range of Conrad's
fiction, from the early Malay novels, through such key works as
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under
Western Eyes, to his later novels. First-time readers of Conrad are
provided with in-depth contexts for appreciating a writer whose
work is often challenging, while readers already familiar with
Conrad's fiction will find new perspectives with which to view it.
Approachable and authoritative, this introductory guide is
essential for anyone with an interest in a master of
twentieth-century fiction whose work variously altered the English
and European literary landscape.
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Heart of Darkness (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Owen Knowles, Allan H. Simmons
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R2,421
Discovery Miles 24 210
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'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic
in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and
absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles
Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his
physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous
ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's most famous short story,
Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful 'voice' of
this autocratic European who has become a self-proclaimed ruler in
an African colony, Marlow is increasingly embroiled in Kurtz's life
and death: he is finally forced into a radical questioning, not
only of his own assumptions, but also of the civilized and imperial
pretensions of Western Europe. Offering a freshly-researched text
based on the writer's original documents, this edition presents a
classic of early modernist fiction in a version that, for the first
time, recovers Conrad's preferred wordings, punctuation and
narrative structure.
Charting a homeward-bound voyage from Bombay to London aboard a
sailing ship, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897) captured the
late-Victorian era's maritime obsession and identified the
strikingly original talent of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) as a sea
writer in what has proved to be a landmark of sea literature. The
Introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its
origins and reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and
historical references, identify real-life places and indicate
Conrad's sources and influences. The essay on the text and the
apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and
publication, and detail interventions by Conrad's typists,
compositors and editors. Also included are notes explaining
literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms,
illustrations, including maps and pictures of early drafts, and
appendixes. This edition of The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' presents
the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so
far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective
forms since its original publication.
Joseph Conrad's Polish background, his extensive travels and his
detached view of his adopted country, Britain, gave him a
perspective unique among English writers of the twentieth century.
Combining Continental and British influences, Victorian and
Modernist styles, he was an artist acutely responsive to his age,
whose works reflect and chronicle its shaping forces. This volume
examines the biographical, historical, cultural and political
contexts that fashioned his works. Written by a specialist, each
short chapter covers a specific theme in relation to Conrad's life
and work: letters, Modernism, the sea, the Polish and French
languages, the First World War, and many other topics. This book
will appeal to scholars as well as to those beginning their study
of this extraordinary writer. It shows how this combination of
different contexts allowed Conrad to become a key transitional
figure in the early emergence of British literary modernism.
Joseph Conrad's Polish background, his extensive travels and his
detached view of his adopted country, Britain, gave him a
perspective unique among English writers of the twentieth century.
Combining Continental and British influences, Victorian and
Modernist styles, he was an artist acutely responsive to his age,
whose works reflect and chronicle its shaping forces. This volume
examines the biographical, historical, cultural and political
contexts that fashioned his works. Written by a specialist, each
short chapter covers a specific theme in relation to Conrad's life
and work: letters, Modernism, the sea, the Polish and French
languages, the First World War, and many other topics. This book
will appeal to scholars as well as to those beginning their study
of this extraordinary writer. It shows how this combination of
different contexts allowed Conrad to become a key transitional
figure in the early emergence of British literary modernism.
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