Now is the opportune moment to trace a middle path between Chinua Achebe’s criticism of Conrad and Heart of Darkness for being insensitive to the issues of race and Conradians’ defense of the author and his works as being otherwise. This article examines the intimate oppositions between critics like Achebe and defenders of Conrad, as well as the desire within Marlow to respond to the blank otherness

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Heart of Darkness: Polish Transformations Ewa Kujawska-Lis (bio) Heart of Darkness is arguably the best-known Conrad work in Poland. This novella had for years been set as compulsory reading in Polish secondary schools, but was removed from the curriculum by the government in the year commemorating Conrad’s 160th birthday (2017) and established

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense by Maurice Ebileeni Anne Luyat (bio) Maurice Ebileeni. Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 155 pp. ISBN: 1501306596. Maurice Ebileeni’s psychoanalytic reading of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner explores five of their novels in the light of

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth-Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent by David Mulry Michael John Disanto (bio) David Mulry. Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth-Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 194 pp. ISBN: 1137502889. Writing a review of Joseph Conrad Among

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Chance ed. by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones Robert L. Caserio (bio) Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Chance. Edited by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones. Leiden And Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2016. viii+180 pp. ISBN: 9789004308978. Critical response to Chance: A Tale in Two Parts has been

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad’s Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels by Andrew Glazzard David Mulry (bio) Andrew Glazzard. Conrad’s Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 227 pp. ISBN: 1137559160. Andrew Glazzard begins his original and thought-provoking study with a charming

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Hampson's Contribution to Conrad Studies John G. Peters (bio) Robert Hampson is among the most prominent Conrad scholars in the world today. He is also among the most prolific. Along with numerous articles, book chapters, and edited works, Robert Hampson has written three monographs on Conrad, all making important contributions

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Katherine Isobel Baxter (bio) and Yael Levin (bio) Conrad scholarship is forever widening its reach. Over the years scholars have turned their attention to questions of biography, composition, and publishing history, geography, politics, identity, sexuality, language, translation, adaptation, medicine, music, food, finance

This article discusses the ways in which space is gendered in a number of Conrad's fictions, with a particular focus on those spaces experienced as metaphorically or literally claustrophobic and stifling. First two shorter works in which men face entrapment are discussed: "The Inn of the Two Witches" and "Amy Foster." The article then builds on the treatment of Alice's imprisonment in "A Smile of Fortune"

This article seeks to explain the prevalence and significance of tropical forest settings and symbolism in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and other authors. It follows up the argument made by Corinne J. Saunders in The Forest of Medieval Romance (1993) that literary forests were once used to explore the concept of unordered matter and to integrate it into the Christian worldview. The contention of this

This article seeks to challenge current understandings of Conrad's status as a maritime writer by considering his many treatments of the sea not as fictionalized versions of his personal experiences as a sailor but as a sustained attempt to reimagine the sea as a literary object. As the earliest reviews of Typhoon attest, contemporaries regarded Conrad's evocation of the sea as unparalleled in both

This paper utilizes spatial figurations in "Amy Foster," Heart of Darkness, and Under Western Eyes in bringing Conrad's poetics to bear on the question of modernist borders. The illustration proceeds by tracing thematic and stylistic articulations of a character's situatedness. The first attends to national determinations and spatial figures, the second to diegetic stratification. The purpose of this

In 1901 H.G. Wells published Anticipations, a provocative speculation on the future course of technology and on how social and political systems might evolve. In the same year, Conrad and Ford published their collaborative novel The Inheritors, a fantasy involving a race of individuals from the Fourth Dimension, the Inheritors of the title, who propose to transform society very much along the lines

This study draws thematic and narratological parallels between Lord Jim and The Lifted Veil, suggesting that Joseph Conrad's and George Eliot's philosophies and views on art were much closer than has hitherto been thought. In her uncharacteristic foray into gothic fiction, Eliot seems to have anticipated many of the modernist techniques usually associated with Conrad, such as the loss of narrative

Phenomenological criticism has recently enabled readings of Conrad that consider more closely the writer's reference to the physical body in the text. This essay adds to discussions of Conrad's visual and epistemological strategies the exploration of physical presence, gesture, and movement. By reading Conrad's use of individual gesture and passages of movement in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in

Joseph Conrad studiously introduced the living, unmediated, stammering, wheezing, and grunting voice into the written text. But how do you record the living voice in verbal format? Reading across the entirety of Conrad's fiction, I attempt the first systematic analysis of all of Conrad's seemingly unsystematic interjections and non-lexical expressions, such as the Brrroum, Pinnnng and Phooooo. The

Conrad's modernity had a significant but overlooked educational dimension. Though school editions of his fiction have received little critical attention, these were instrumental in promoting his work amongst teachers and educationalists. This article opens with a consideration of the "Newbolt Report" (1921), a document testifying to Conrad's significance in the classroom in a progressive period for

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad and Languageed. by Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson Jennifer Janechek (bio) Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson, eds. Conrad and Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 219 pp. ISBN: 9781474403764 (hardback); 9781474403788 (e-book). Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson's Conrad

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors KATHERINE ISOBEL BAXTER is Professor in English Literature at Northumbria University. She has published widely on Conrad including Conrad and the Performing Arts(edited with Richard Hand, 2009), Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance(2010), Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews, Vol. 4(edited with Mary Burgoyne

ABSTRACT:Joseph Conrad fascinated Hannah Arendt. Her library contained five of his novels including The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and The Rover. "The Heart of Darkness" influenced her Origins of Totalitarianism. More importantly, Under Western Eyes may have been the catalyst for her infamous phrase used as the subtitle of Eichmann in Jerusalem, and the final sentence of the book: the "banality

“It is certain my conviction gains infinitely, the moment another soul will believe in it (Novalis).” Lord Jim’s epigraph could as well have something to do with An Outcast of the Islands and with Conrad himself: a nod of gratitude to Edward Garnett. For after Conrad’s foray into authorship with Almayer’s Folly, without Garnett’s encouragement to write Outcast Conrad’s inspiration and resolve likely

ABSTRACT:Although historians and literary critics discount the practical information about terrorism in Under Western Eyes, social science research corroborates Conrad's account of terrorism and counter-terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia. According to this research, terrorists are indistinguishable from the general population until they decide to join a terrorist group, and the best way to prevent

ABSTRACT:The influence of the sinking of the ship the Lusitania in the short fiction of World War I cannot be overstated; in many ways, it serves as a historical "before and after" that heralded not only a new kind of warfare but also a new kind of fear. This paper argues that the Lusitania is both a point of convergence and a point of divergence for Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Conrad, each of whom

ABSTRACT:This article argues that critical understandings of gendered closure often overlook the intersection of race. Examining Conrad's Lord Jim demonstrates how Jewel's lack of closure in the novel frustrates ideological expectations, ultimately revealing the limitations of the marriage/death binary. The spaces afforded and denied to Jewel in this text expose the inability of closure and endings