Conrad in the Public Eye
Biography / Criticism / Publicity
Published on 1. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-90-420-2395-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of difficult-to-find and typically early commentary on Conrad's life and works. The selections contained shed light on Conrad's life and works, as well as the way in which his works were promoted to the public. Selections include those by the American novelist Christopher Morley and the Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. Also included is a previously unpublished essay by Conrad's friend Richard Curle. Of particular interest are the promotional materials, which are collected together for the first time and reveal how Conrad was perceived by the general reading public and how he was marketed by his publishers.
Reviews / Votes
"The possibility of this book ten or eleven years ago would have seemed a van Marlean dream. The fact it joins a burgeoning "Conrad Studies" series overseen by Simmons and J. H. Slape and published by Rodopi is magnificent. [...] an essential addition to any college or university library. I am delighted to have it on my shelf, and am happier still to know now its use and validity to any reader mad enough to explore stuff about Conrad for longer than an hour and a half."- David Miller, The Conrad Society, 2009.
"No one would gainsay the importance of this work without undermining in Conrad's scholarship the relevance of these short essays and tributes. Peters illuminates them further with his rather ebullient editorial notations. He uses footnotes masterfully to clarify and extend the tet, especially by identifying the sources the original writers have used and the inter-textual valences of their arguments."
- Jude Chudi Okpala, Joseph Conrad Today XXXV-2, Fall 2010
"Thus, with the amalgamation of various elements - from photographic and cinematic scenarios to thought-provoking arguments concerning Conrad's theme, style and language, and the publicity through pamphlets - the book becomes a smorgasbord of knowledge about Joseph Conrad."
- Umme Salma, Transnational Literature, vol. 4 no 2, May 2012.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Adult education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2395-6 (9789042023956)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Biography
Burton RASCOE, et al.: New York Greets Joseph Conrad on His First Visit to America
Christopher MORLEY: Conrad and the Reporters
Sir Hugh CLIFFORD: A Talk on Joseph Conrad and His Work
Florence DOUBLEDAY: From Episodes in the Life of a Publisher's Wife
Edouard RODITI: Meetings with Conrad
James WHITAKER: Joseph Conrad at Stanford-le-Hope
Appreciations
Porter GARNETT: In Memoriam Joseph Conrad, Obiit August 3, 1924: The Honour of Labour
A Tribute to a Great Seafarer
Liam O'FLAHERTY: Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation
Early Criticism
John Cowper POWYS: From Essays on Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde
John Herman RANDALL: Joseph Conrad: His Outlook on Life
G. JEAN-AUBRY: "Introduction" to Twenty Letters to Joseph Conrad
Richard CURLE: The History of The Nigger of the "Narcissus": Human, Literary, Bibliographical
V. WALPOLE: Conrad's Method: Some Formal Aspects
Publicity
James HUNEKER, E. F. SAXTON, and Richard CURLE: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad - A Prospectus: A Biographical Sketch & A List of His Books Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Joseph Conrad: A Prospectus of the Uniform Edition of Joseph Conrad's Works
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronicle
Joseph Conrad: The Greatest Living Artist in English Prose
Joseph Conrad: A Sketch with a Bibliography
A Man Who Sailed the Seven Seas and Wrote His Tales to the Boom of the Distant Surf
The New Kent Edition of Joseph Conrad
Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Biography
Burton RASCOE, et al.: New York Greets Joseph Conrad on His First Visit to America
Christopher MORLEY: Conrad and the Reporters
Sir Hugh CLIFFORD: A Talk on Joseph Conrad and His Work
Florence DOUBLEDAY: From Episodes in the Life of a Publisher's Wife
Edouard RODITI: Meetings with Conrad
James WHITAKER: Joseph Conrad at Stanford-le-Hope
Appreciations
Porter GARNETT: In Memoriam Joseph Conrad, Obiit August 3, 1924: The Honour of Labour
A Tribute to a Great Seafarer
Liam O'FLAHERTY: Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation
Early Criticism
John Cowper POWYS: From Essays on Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde
John Herman RANDALL: Joseph Conrad: His Outlook on Life
G. JEAN-AUBRY: "Introduction" to Twenty Letters to Joseph Conrad
Richard CURLE: The History of The Nigger of the "Narcissus": Human, Literary, Bibliographical
V. WALPOLE: Conrad's Method: Some Formal Aspects
Publicity
James HUNEKER, E. F. SAXTON, and Richard CURLE: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad - A Prospectus: A Biographical Sketch & A List of His Books Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Joseph Conrad: A Prospectus of the Uniform Edition of Joseph Conrad's Works
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronicle
Joseph Conrad: The Greatest Living Artist in English Prose
Joseph Conrad: A Sketch with a Bibliography
A Man Who Sailed the Seven Seas and Wrote His Tales to the Boom of the Distant Surf
The New Kent Edition of Joseph Conrad
Index