
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad(Author)
Cambridge University Press
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2012
Book
Hardback
636 pages
978-0-521-82435-4 (ISBN)
Description
Since its first appearance in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1899 and 1900, Lord Jim (1900) has been acclaimed as a modernist masterwork. Its narrative innovations and psychological complexity make it one of the most influential fictions written in the twentieth century and it has challenged and stimulated generations of readers as well as writers on and of fiction. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's novel and its preface in a form more authoritative than any so far printed. The Introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places and indicate Conrad's main influences. Glossaries, maps and illustrations are provided for further context, as well as a new transcription of 'Tuan Jim: A Sketch', a partial draft of the novel, and appearing in print for the first time, Conrad's contract for the book.
Reviews / Votes
"This edition is obviously the product of enormous time and effort, and the end product is well worth what went into producing it. In both the introduction and textual essay, the editors clearly delineate the origins of the novel, both the story itself and its journey into published form." -John Peters, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen, 3 Karten
3 Maps; 7 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
917 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-82435-4 (9780521824354)
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Joseph Conrad | J. H. Stape | Ernest W. Sullivan, II
Lord Jim
E-Book
01/2012
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€103.99
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Persons
J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf. Ernest W. Sullivan, II is Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Author
Editor
Research Fellow
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Content
General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Lord Jim, A Tale; The texts: an essay; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Appendix A: 'Tuan Jim: A Sketch' (1898); Appendix B: Blackwood's Memorandum of Agreement for Lord Jim (June 1900); Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Maps.