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9780521887922

Joseph Conrad in Context

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521887922

  • ISBN10:

    0521887925

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-10-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. viii
Notes on contributorsp. x
Prefacep. xv
List of abbreviationsp. xviii
Chronologyp. xx
Life And Worksp. 1
Lifep. 3
Chronology of composition and publicationp. 11
Languagep. 18
Lettersp. 26
Literary influencesp. 33
Biographies and memoirsp. 42
Portraits and illustrationsp. 49
Critical Fortunesp. 57
Critical responses: contemporaryp. 59
Critical responses: 1925-1950p. 67
Critical responses: 1950-1975p. 75
Critical responses: 1975-2000p. 83
Dramatic and other adaptationsp. 91
Translationsp. 99
Historical And Cultural Contextp. 107
Africap. 109
Anarchismp. 117
Disease and medicinep. 124
Eastern Europep. 132
The Far Eastp. 139
Fin de sièclep. 147
The First World Warp. 155
Intellectual movementsp. 163
Literary movementsp. 171
Modernismp. 179
Nationalism and Empirep. 187
Politicsp. 195
Popular culturep. 204
Publishingp. 212
Readingp. 221
Religionp. 229
Science and technologyp. 237
Seap. 245
Societyp. 253
Further readingp. 275
Indexp. 275
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