A comprehensive collection of 20th century research on Joseph Conrad, this volume outlines the shift from a humanist and anthropological interest in Conrad as a 'metaphysical' author to the appreciation of Conrad as a nihilist and skeptic of the modernist epoch.

In terms of motion and narration, travel and travel accounts represent a conflation of spatial and temporal experiences. The articles in this volume examine accounts of real and imaginary journeys from Charles Darwin to Doris Lessing for the changes that have taken place in such experiences between the 19th century and the present, in the context of revolutions both in perception and transportation. Is there such a thing as educative travel in an age of globalized fast-motion culture? What changes have there been to travel schemes of a primarily aesthetic nature in the face of technological and scientific innovations? What culture-critical counter-schemes have been proposed?

Seeber up to date! Von Beowulf und Shakespeare uber Defoe und Dickens, Yeats, Eliot und Orwell bis zu Woolf, Pinter und Rushdie umfasst der Band alle grossen Autorinnen und Autoren der englischen Literatur. Die 5., stark uberarbeitete Auflage ruckt nun auch die wichtigsten Werke des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ins Rampenlicht. Neue Inhalte zur Kinderliteratur und Kurzgeschichte, zum Krimi, zu Fantasy und Science Fiction sowie Werk- und Autorenportrats erganzen den Band. Fundiert zu Epochen, Stilrichtungen, Gattungen. Mit Bildern, Marginalien und Sachregister eben ein lebendiges Nachschlagewerk.