Cambridge University Press 0521780071 - Essays on Conrad Ian Watt Index More information Index Index Academy ‘Author’s Notes’ and prefaces Achebe, C. –, –, Almayer’s Folly – Adams, V. de l’Isle Chance –, adults, defying Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ –, , , , adventure-story motifs Personal Record Africa see ‘Heart of Darkness’ Secret Agent , , , agents, literary – Shadow-Line see also Pinker ’Twixt Land and Sea agents provocateurs , , Typhoon alienation ‘Autocracy and War’ and commitment – Azev (Russian secret police) –, defined allegory Baines, J. Almayer’s Folly ix, –, Bakunin, M. A. , ‘Author’s Note’ – Barker, A. J. beginnings – Baudelaire, C. , critics, reception by –, – Beach, J. W. and reputation , , Beach, T. M. (Major H. Le Caron) – language and style – Becke, L. , literary influences , – Béguin, A. manuscript – Belgian Congo see ‘Heart of Darkness’ narrative and action , , – Bennett, A. , point of view, theme and meaning – Benson, C. typescript, acceptance and publication Besant, W. –, Big Bangs and war , writing – biographers, major , , , Amiel, H. F. family members , anaphora ‘Black Mate’ anarchism see Secret Agent Blackwood, J. Anderson, Sir R. –, , Blackwood’s Magazine anti-hero Bloom, H. anti-pathetic fallacy Bobrowski, T. , , , , Armitage (doctor) Boigne, Comptesse de Arrow of Gold , , , Bookman artist, novelist as see Flaubert Borneo see Almayer’s Folly Asquith, Lord A. Boulle, P.: ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ x, Athenæum , , , – passim Atlantic Monthly , Bourdin (anarchist) , , , , , , audience/readers alienation from , – Bradbrook, M. for Almayer’s Folly , Brando, M. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521780071 - Essays on Conrad Ian Watt Index More information Index ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ as myth , Commonweal – Congo see ‘Heart of Darkness’ film –, – passim Conrad, Joseph novel see Boulle major works in chronological order – and reality –, – first group (–) see Almayer’s Folly; reincarnation of – ‘Heart of Darkness’; Lord Jim; Mirror of Brooke, Sir J. the Sea; Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’; Nostromo; Brown, E. K. Outcast of the Islands; Secret Agent; ‘Secret Bulwer-Lytton, H. Sharer’; Typhoon Byron, Lord G. second group (–) see Chance; Personal Record; Rescue; Rover; Shadow-Line; cannibalism Under Western Eyes; Victory Canning, E. wife and family , , , – Canterbury cemetery, Conrad’s grave in see also sailor, Conrad as – Conrad Korzeniowski, A. B. and J. (Conrad’s Capes, H. sons) , –, caricature Conrad Korzeniowski, J. R. T. and P. S. T. Carnot, S. (Conrad’s grandsons) Caron, Major H. le (T. M. Beach) consciousness Casement, R. – as curse – Caserio (anarchist) and knowledge Chance , –, registering , ‘Author’s Note’ –, Coppola, F. and critics’ opinions on reputation –, Cottin, E. , – Couch, Sir A. Quiller solidarity in Coulon, A. characterization , Courtney, W. L. , , Almayer’s Folly , , – Critic ‘Bridge over River Kwai’ , critics Chance Almayer’s Folly –, – comic see comedy under Typhoon ‘Heart of Darkness’ ix, – Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ , , , – major see Forster; Garnett, E.; Guérard; Rescue Leavis; Woolf, L. and V. Rover ‘Secret Sharer’ – ‘Secret Sharer’ – Shadow-Line , –, –, Shadow-Line – passim, –, Typhoon –, –, – Chateaubriand, F. R., Vicomte de see also under Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ Chaucer, G. cryptophor –, Chesson, W. H. , , Cunninghame Graham, R. B. , , , , Christianity , , , chronological shifts see obscurity Curle, R. , , , , , Clair, W. G. St class Daily Chronicle , cliché , , Daily News , stereotyping see race Daily Telegraph Coleridge, S. T. darkness theme , – colonialism , , –, – see also ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ , Dawes, C. , decivilized art – see also ‘Heart of Darkness’ dedication see commitment Colvin, Sir S. , Defoe, D. viii comedy and humour despair and depression , , – see also under Typhoon see also alienation commitment determinism and alienation – Dial © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521780071 - Essays on Conrad Ian Watt Index More information Index Diamond, S. and opinions on reputation , , , Dickens, C. Shadow-Line Disraeli, B. Garnett, O. Doody, M. A. viii Ghéon, H. Doubleday, N. Gide, A. duality –, Glasgow Evening News Dupee, F. W. Glasgow Herald ‘Dynamite’ Godwin Gordan, J. economic necessity and solidarity – Gosse, E. , , , Edinburgh Review Gould, G. Egan, P. Graham see Cunninghame Graham Eliot, G. , grammar see language Eliot, T. S. , , , , , , Greek chorus analogy Empire see colonialism Greene, G. –, , End of Tether Greenwich explosion , –, , , England see Secret Agent , English language see language Guardian , English Review , guardian see Bobrowski evolutionism , , Guérard, A. , Existentialism –, , , , and Almayer’s Folly , , , , , Shadow-Line –, , Fanon, F. Guinness, A. x Faulkner, W. –, –, Fénéton, F. Haggard, Sir H. Rider , Fenians , Harcourt, Sir W. , Fielding, H. Hardy, T. , film see under ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ Haugh, R. F. – finance and sales , , , , , ‘Heart of Darkness’ , , first book see Almayer’s Folly critics ix, – Fitzgerald, F. S. on reputation , , , Flaubert, G. , and James , and Almayer’s Folly , , –, , solidarity in – Ford, F. M. symbolism in and Almayer’s Folly , Hegel, G. , and Conrad’s reputation , , Hemingway, E. –, and James’s influence , , , , ‘Henry James: An Appreciation’ –, heterophor –, , and Secret Agent , –, –, Hewitt, D. , –, Foreman, C. Hewlett, M. Forster, E. M. , , , , Hicks, J. and Shadow-Line , historical events, books based on , – Francis, J. Secret Agent see Greenwich explosion Freud, S. / Freudian , , , historical perspective – ‘further vision’ – homeophor , , future –, Howe, I. Fyne, J. Hugo, V. , Hulme, T. E. Galsworthy, J. , , , , , , humble people ix, Gapon, Father G. A. , Hume, D. Garnett, C. humour see comedy and humour Garnett, E. , , , Huysman, J. K. and Almayer’s Folly –, , , and James’s influence , , , , Ibsen, H. ideal values –, – © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521780071 - Essays on Conrad Ian Watt Index More information Index ideas Letters experience correcting – and alienation , – importance of – and Almayer’s Folly – passim, , , see also Shadow-Line identification and critics’ opinions on reputation – illusion and ‘Heart of Darkness’ – imperialism see colonialism and James, influence of –, –, impressionism , –, , individualism and Secret Agent –, Ireland –, liberalism irony – Lingard, J. Lingard, W. –, , , , Jacques, W. H. – literary influences in Almayer’s Folly , – James, Mrs C. literary modes James, H., influence of ix, , , , –, Conrad’s divergence from see obscurity Literary News and Almayer’s Folly , , , Lomasney, M. and Chance , – London Mercury early relationship – Lord Jim , , , , , , later years – and critics’ opinions on reputation , and opinions on reputation –, , , , Japanese prison camps see ‘Bridge over the and James , River Kwai’ origin of Jean-Aubry, G. and Shadow-Line compared , , Johnson, S. , solidarity in – Joll, J. Loti, P. Joyce, J. , , , , , love, romantic –, , – Jung, C. / Jungian , , as ‘uncongenial subject’ see also Chance Karl, F. R. , Lubbock, P. Keeting, G. Lynd, R. , Kermode, F. vii–xi Kibera, A. McArthur, J. Kipling, R. , McCarthy, Joseph Kliszczewski, S. McCarthy, Justin knowledge and consciousness MacDonald, R. Korzeniowski, A. (Conrad’s father) McLauchlan, J. Korzeniowski, J. (Conrad’s wife) , , Macmillan Company – passim ‘magic realism’ viii Korzeniowski, Jozef see Conrad Malaya see Almayer’s Folly Kropotkin, Prince P. , , , Mallarmé, S. – Kwai see ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ Manchester Guardian , Mann, T. , , – ‘labour of others’ ix, Marris, Captain C. M. ‘Lagoon’ Marx, K. , language –, Marxism and materialism , Lardner, R. Masefield, J. Lawrence, D. H. , , , materialism see Marxism Lean, D. x, , Matthews, H. Leavis, F. R. Maupassant, G. de –, and opinions on reputation , , Maurois, A. mechanistic view see technology and Shadow-Line , Meldrum, D. S. and Typhoon – Melville, H. , , Leopold, King of Belgians , memory © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521780071 - Essays on Conrad Ian Watt Index More information Index Mencken, H. L. , solidarity in Meredith, G. Typhoon comparison Meredith, I. night theme , – Methuen (publisher) , , Nobel, A. Meyer, B. North American Review , Meynell, A. Northcliffe, Lord A. Mezentzev, General Nostromo , , , , , Middleton, Rector and critics’ opinions on reputation , Mikhailovich, S. (Stepniak) , , , , , , Miller, J. E. Mirror of the Sea , obituaries of Conrad – money see finance objectivity morality and value systems , , – obscurity , Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ , , , – see also point of view see also philosophy of life oceans see sailing Morf, G. O’Connor, T. P. , , Morris, W. Olmeijer, C. W. , –, , , , , Mortimer, R. Moser, T. –, , – Orwell, G. Most, J. other people, alienation from movie see under ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ ‘other self’ – Mudrick, M. –, , , , , –, Outcast of the Islands , , , , –, Mursia, U. Palmer, J. , Musset, A. de Parnell, C. S. mythophor – Pater, W. myths x–xi pathetic fallacy see also ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ Payne, W. M. Personal Record Naipaul, V. S. – and Almayer’s Folly , –, –, , , Najder, Z. , , , , names of characters preface to narrator