John Henry Stape

Thomas Hardy

Having accepted the suit of Captain, Paula discovers that his illegitimate son has hatched a plot against Somerset, and so does not go through with the marriage. Instead she finally marries Somerset, but her castle home is burned to the ground, and she remains a Laodicean to the end.

A Story of Today

A Laodicean

Joseph Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point. Such phrases as 'heart of darkness' and 'The horror! The horror!' have entered the language, often cited without an awareness of their original contexts. His popular legacy extends to Latin American fiction, to the spy novel, to the terrorist and anarchist character, and to film. The writers he has influenced range from T. S. Eliot to William Faulkner to V. S. Naipaul and John Le Carre. For a writer of 'difficult' fiction he has enjoyed a remarkably wide impact, yet as Marlow proclaims in Lord Jim of the figure whose story he tells, 'he was one of us' and so Conrad remains in fascinating ways.

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

Allan Simmons

This collection of thirteen essays by writers from several countries lavishly celebrates the centenary of the publication of Conrad's The Secret Agent. It reconsiders one of Conrad's most important political novels from a variety of critical perspectives and presents a stimulating documentary section as well as specially commissioned maps and new contextualizing illustrations. Much new information is provided on the novel's sources, and the work is placed in new several contexts. The volume is essential reading on this novel both for students studying it as a set text as well as for scholars of the late-Victorian and early Modernist periods.

Centennial Essays

The Secret Agent

Anne Nieuwehuis Thomas

A Bibliography, 1947-1987

Angus Wilson

Owen Knowles

A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Joseph Conrad offers an annotated selection of letters to Conrad preserved in widely scattered archives. Augmented by letters about his work and personality, the volume also contains a calendar of all known surviving correspondence addressed to him. An essential supplement to the Cambridge Edition ofThe Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, A Portrait in Letters presents Conrad in the round, offering glimpses not only of the working writer but of the husband, parent, and friend. The letters offer new information about Conrad's literary circle and fill out numerous details about his career. Brief, authoritative biographies of the correspondents are included, and an introduction, description of editorial principles, and full index to the volume provide the scholarly contextualization and tools necessary for easy access to its contents.

Correspondence to and about Conrad

A Portrait in Letters

Anti-heroics and epic failures : the case of Nostromo / Terry Collits -- Holroyd's man : tradition, fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo / C. Brook Miller -- Homecoming in Nostromo / Ludmilla Voitkovska -- "Action is consolatory" : the dialectics of action and thought in Nostromo / Amar Acheraïou -- Free will and determinism in Nostromo / Ludwig Schnauder -- Ford Madox Ford and the composition of Nostromo / Xavier Brice -- Leitmotifs from Coleridge and Wagner in Nostromo and beyond / Mario Curreli -- Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and "The horse of stone" in Nostromo / Christopher Cairney.

Nostromo

Gene M. Moore

From the contents: Conrad's debt to Marguerite Poradowska (Susan Jones).- Conrad and Alfred Russel Wallace (Amy Houston).- Conrad's The idiots and Maupassant's La mere aux monstres (Gene M. Moore).- Conrad, Anatole France, and the early French Romantic tradition: some influences (Owen Knowles).- 'One can learn something from Balzac': Conrad and Balzac (J.H. Stape).

Intertexts & Appropriations : Essays in Memory of Yves Hervouet

Conrad

Part of the Critical Assessments of Writers in English series, the aim of which is to provide complete collections of previously published, formative critical assessments covering the whole work of individual writers. The titles should be useful to serious readers of literature, researchers and advanced students.

E.M. Forster: The critical response: early responses 1907-44. The short fiction. Forster's criticism. Miscellaneous writings

Visiting Professor of English J H Stape

The difficulty of a balanced viewpoint for some of her memoirists, a demanding enough task at the best of times, was compounded by the enthusiasm with which she sometimes donned a mask and by conversation whose notorious brilliance veered at moments towards the flamboyant, the wildly inaccurate, or the cruel.

Interviews and Recollections

Virginia Woolf

“Lord Jim: Centennial Essays” features eight essays by major Conrad scholars to celebrate the centenary of the publication of what is possibly Joseph Conrad's best known novel. This carefully edited volume covers a wide range of topics, and includes new work on the novel's reception and sources, narrative strategies, and thematic interests. Various contemporary critical approaches - Bakhtinian, postcolonial, and historicist - are aired and reconsidered, and a generous selection of documents relating to the Jeddah affair of 1880 sheds light on Conrad's use of real-life materials.The kaleidoscopic perspectives brought to bear on this landmark of literary Modernism will stimulate and challenge both scholars and students alike.

John Henry Stape

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