By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last
refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly …

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about
Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical …

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 …

A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable
narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the …

THIS STUDY OWES A CERTAIN DEBT to structuralist thought, which obviously places it in a
scholarly context of the 1970s. Instead of adopting any particular theory, however, it takes a …

Although there have been a number of critical works on the novel given over to topics such
as adventure, colonization or the politics of the frontier, a comparative study of novels in …

Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers:
these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how …

Scores of anthologists and critics have given it their most bated breath intoned" To make you
see" as a sovereign charm against blindness. Sacred c invite bull, but are not served; at …

T HE INFLUENCE of Dickens on Conrad is most evident in his London novel, The Secret
Agent, where, according to FR Leavis, it is for the most part admirably controlled and …

B __) RILLIANTLY ILLUMINATING as it has been in such a book as Albert J. Guerard's
Conrad The Novelist, the recent emphasis on the complex, unchronological nature of …