A Conrad Chronology

by Knowles, Owen

• ISBN13: 9781137452382
• ISBN10: 1137452382
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This freshly revised and enlarged second edition of A Conrad Chronology is designed to provide a clear and compact digest of Conrad's life as it developed from year to year. Its form – that of a series of diary or chronicle entries – caters for the reader who may wish to check quickly a single fact or find an answer to questions of 'Where, when and with whom?' The main emphasis falls upon the unfolding course of a literary life spanning the years 1894 to 1924 – its interacting and cumulative pressures, the history of composition and publication, the author's prodigious reading, and the significant friendships within the Conrad circle. With its up-to-date detail and varied indexes, this chronology will be an indispensable reference work for researchers, while students new to Conrad will find an integrated portrait of a unique literary career, with its significant phases, routines and landmarks.

Author Biography

Owen Knowles is Research Fellow at the University of Hull. He has written numerous articles and books on Joseph Conrad, including An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Joseph Conrad (1992) and (with Gene M. Moore) the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad (2000). The Advisory Editor of The Conradian: the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), he has also edited several Conrad works, co-edited Volumes 6 and 9 of Conrad's Collected Letters and edited two volumes of letters to and about Conrad.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
Preface to the Second Edition
General Editor's Preface
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Names, Titles, Usages and Money
Introduction
A CONRAD CHRONOLOGY
Select Who's Who
Locations and Addresses
Select Bibliography
Indexes