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Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad
Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore
512 pages
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4 maps and 1 family tree
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196x129mm
978-0-19-860421-1
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Paperback
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25 October 2001
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- Provides a unique and comprehensive guide to one of the most complex men in English literature
- More than 400 A-Z entries written by two of the world's leading Conradians with the help of a small team of expert contributors
- Gives a synthesis of literary, biographical, and historical information on Joseph Conrad covering family, friends, ships and voyages, films and adaptations, places, novels, essays, influences, and reputation
- The text is fully cross-referenced to facilitate browsing
- Contains additional material: a classified contents list with headwords grouped in thematic batches, Conrad's family tree, a useful chronology spanning Conrad's life, maps showing Conrad's travels, an index of references to Conrad's works, and an alphabetical list of frequently cited texts
'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series.
In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens came out in paperback. Now the Oxford Reader's Companions to Hardy, Trollope, Conrad, and George Eliot will follow on from that success. In this format these books are designed specifically to appeal
to students of literature. Each contains a more comprehensive and accessible range of information than any other reference work on these writers.
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski had an astonishing life. 'Pole, Catholic, and nobleman' is how he described himself as at the age of 5. He was born in the Ukraine of Polish parents and spent his childhood in exile. It was only after fifteen years at sea that he began writing in English, his third language and the one whose genius had, as he put it, 'adopted' him.
Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, together with their team of distinguished Advisers and Contributors, have created a unique and authoritative reference work on all things Conradian.
Over 400 entries cover Conrad's
novels, stories, essays, and reviews; his friends, family, and associates; films and adaptations; ships and voyages; places associated with his life and works; his influences and sources; his reputation and critical approaches to his work; historical contexts to his life.
Entries include:
Conrad's life: health, Polish inheritance, the sea, ships and voyages
People: Borys Conrad, Apollo and Ewa Korzeniowski, J. M. Barrie, Stephen Crane, Stefan Zeromski
Places: America, Bangkok, Berdyczow, Congo, Cracow, Marseilles
Novels: Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo
Stories, essays, and reviews: 'An Anarchist', 'Typhoon', 'Autocracy and War', 'Legends', 'Tales
of the Sea'
Influences and Sources: James Brooke, Alighieri Dante, Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emile Zola
Characters: Almayer family, Mr Jones, Jim, Captain Mitchell, Nostromo, the Professor, Edith Travers
Reputation: biographies, films, influences on other writers, portraits and other images, translations
Historical context: First World War, Polish question, women's suffrage movement
In addition to the A-Z entries the Companion offers extra material: a classified contents list with headwords grouped in thematic batches, Conrad's family tree, a useful chronology spanning Conrad's life, maps showing Conrad's travels, an index of references to Conrad's works, and an
alphabetical list of frequently cited texts.Readership: The readership of the paperback Oxford Reader's Companions will be mostly, but not exclusively, Anglophone. Potential readers will mainly be students of Victorian literature at undergraduate level or above. These books will also receive interest from general readers. Other categories may include scholars, lectures, and teachers.
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Owen Knowles, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Hull., and Gene M. Moore, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Amsterdam. Contributors:
Advisers
Hans van Marle is Consulting Editor for The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad and the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. He has also written numerous essays on Conrad and is co-editor of the Cambridge Edition of Suspense.
J. H. Stape is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996) and co-editor of the World's Classics editions of An Outcast of the Islands and The Rover, and of A
Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Conrad (1996). He is also editor of the Cambridge Edition of Conrad's Notes on Life and Letters.
Contributors
Robert Hampson, Reader in English at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
Allan H. Simmons, Senior Lecturer in English at St Mary's University College, University of Surrey.
J. H. Stape (as above).
Zdzislaw Najder, the celebrated Polish scholar, who has written and edited numerous works relating to Conrad.
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Review(s) from previous edition
"excellent - Giles Foden TLS
"a model reference work, one guaranteed to satisfy the existing cravings of the Conrad addict while doubtless introducing many new ones" - Jeremy Hawthorn, The Conradian
"lively and thorough" - Morris Hounion, Library Journal
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
List of Maps
List of Authors and Contributors
Classified Contents List
Abbreviations
A Note to the Reader
Conrad Family Tree
Chronology
A-Z Entries
Maps
Frequently Cited Texts
Index of References to Conrad's Works
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