Shortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award The Fact of Resonance
returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed …

First Published in 1967 The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad is a major biography, a fruit of
Jerry Allen's ten years of extensive research making use of records located in fifteen …

Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to
create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New …

First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the
specific handling of literary forms. The author examines the way in which writers exploring …

Adam Gillon's work on Conrad has always contained a strong strain of the comparative. In
this collection of eleven essays, Gillon traces connections between Conrad and such writers …

Do novelists have something to say about politics? By raising the question in such a starkly
rhetorical way it is tempting to respond,'Yes, of course, novelists (at least some of them) do …

An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive author Few if
any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more …

54 Vibratory Modernism novelist resists 'a long and sociable interview with the reader, a
companion with whom he must establish definite terms'. 3 The writer 'is so far from telling a …

Shortly after Conrad's death in 1924, Ford M Ford Madox Hueffer) stated in his memoir of
Conrad that he had himself written the first version of the story:" Conrad had no particular …

Ehave learned to think of Joseph Conrad's writing career as falling into two distinct periods.
The first, from 1895 until 1910, is the period of great achievement during which a skeptical …