Joseph Conrad and the Arts of his Time
Will be published approx. on 31. January 2026
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-3995-2371-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is the product of new research on Conrad's engagement with the arts during his lifetime. Beginning with nineteenth-century Polish landscape painting and Polish theatre, the essays move through music and the performing arts during Conrad's time in Marseilles; the opera Conrad encountered in Australia; and Conrad's later-life knowledge of recent and contemporary classical music. Subsequent essays demonstrate his familiarity with contemporary visual art (particularly through his friendships with various artists in London); his interest in dance; and his active involvement in contemporary theatre and screen-writing. The volume concludes with a discussion of Conrad's art as a novelist and playwright, his 'theatrical imagination', in relation to developments in theatre theory of the time.
Reviews / Votes
This collection reveals Conrad as a writer both conversant with and integrating an astonishing array of art forms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including music, opera, theatre, painting and dance. It is indispensable not only for Conrad scholars interested in the fullest picture of his immersion in the arts, but also for any student of culture seeking a case study of the striking interrelation of the arts in this period. * Debra Romanick Baldwin Professor of English, University of Dallas Past President, Joseph Conrad Society of America *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
22 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-2371-4 (9781399523714)
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Person
Robert Hampson is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Joseph Conrad (2020), Conrad's Secrets (2012), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction (2000) and Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992). He is co-editor of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad (2022), Conrad and Language (EUP, 2016), Ford Madox Ford's Modernity (2003), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-Appraisal (2002), and Conrad and Theory (1998). He is Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), co-editor of The Conradian and on the editorial board of Conradiana and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction: Joseph Conrad and the Arts of His Time
Robert Hampson
1. The 'Familiar Landscape' in Conrad's Polish Texts
Marek Pacukiewicz
2. Joseph Conrad, Apollo Nalecz-Korzeniowski and Polish Drama in the Nineteenth Century
Karol Samsel
3. Conrad, Music and the Performing Arts in Marseilles
Helen Chambers
4. Conrad and Australia: Operatic Instability and 'The Planter of Malata'
James Ward
5. Revisiting Jean-Aubry's 'Joseph Conrad and Music' (1924)
Erik Levi
6. A Seeing Eye: Conrad and the Visual Arts
Robert Hampson
7. Conrad and Dance: From Music Hall to Modernism
Susan Jones
8. 'Un genre que Vs etonnera': Conrad Writing for the Cinema
Katherine Isobel Baxter
9: Conrad, the English Literary Theatre and Grand-Guignol
Richard J. Hand
10. 'A Theatrical Imagination': Conrad's Fiction and the Arts of the Modernist Stage
Mark Deggan
Notes on Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
A Note on Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction: Joseph Conrad and the Arts of His Time
Robert Hampson
1. The 'Familiar Landscape' in Conrad's Polish Texts
Marek Pacukiewicz
2. Joseph Conrad, Apollo Nalecz-Korzeniowski and Polish Drama in the Nineteenth Century
Karol Samsel
3. Conrad, Music and the Performing Arts in Marseilles
Helen Chambers
4. Conrad and Australia: Operatic Instability and 'The Planter of Malata'
James Ward
5. Revisiting Jean-Aubry's 'Joseph Conrad and Music' (1924)
Erik Levi
6. A Seeing Eye: Conrad and the Visual Arts
Robert Hampson
7. Conrad and Dance: From Music Hall to Modernism
Susan Jones
8. 'Un genre que Vs etonnera': Conrad Writing for the Cinema
Katherine Isobel Baxter
9: Conrad, the English Literary Theatre and Grand-Guignol
Richard J. Hand
10. 'A Theatrical Imagination': Conrad's Fiction and the Arts of the Modernist Stage
Mark Deggan
Notes on Contributors
Index