Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information JOSEPH CONRAD IN CONTEXT Joseph Conrad’s Polish background, his extensive travels and his detached view of his adopted country, Britain, gave him a perspective unique among English writers of the twentieth century. Combining Continental and British influences, and Victorian and modernist styles, he was an artist acutely responsive to his age, and his works reflect and chronicle its shaping forces. This volume examines the biographical, historical, cultural and political contexts that fashioned his works. Written by a specialist, each short chapter covers a specificthemein relation to Conrad’s life and work: letters, Modernism, the sea, the Polish and French languages, the First World War and many other topics. This book will appeal to scholars as well as to those beginning their study of this extraordinary writer. It shows how this combination of different contexts allowed Conrad to become a key transitional figure in the early emergence of British literary Modernism. allan h. simmons is Reader in English Literature at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London. He has published many books and articles on Conrad over twenty years. He is one of the General Editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, General Editor of The Conradian and co-General Editor of Conrad Studies. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information JOSEPH CONRAD IN CONTEXT edited by ALLAN H. SIMMONS © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb28ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521887922 © Cambridge University Press 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2009 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library isbn 978-0-521-88792-2 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page viii Notes on contributors x Preface xv List of abbreviations xviii Chronology Allan H. Simmons xx part i life and works 1 1 Life J. H. Stape 3 2 Chronology of composition and publication Katherine Isobel Baxter 11 3 Language Mary Morzinski and Véronique Pauly 18 4 Letters Gene M. Moore 26 5 Literary influences Owen Knowles 33 6 Biographies and memoirs David Miller 42 7 Portraits and illustrations J. H. Stape 49 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information vi Contents part ii critical fortunes 57 8 Critical responses: contemporary Allan H. Simmons 59 9 Critical responses: 1925–1950 Owen Knowles 67 10 Critical responses: 1950–1975 Richard Niland 75 11 Critical responses: 1975–2000 Andrew Purssell 83 12 Dramatic and other adaptations Richard J. Hand 91 13 Translations Mario Curreli 99 part iii historical and cultural context 107 14 Africa Allan H. Simmons 109 15 Anarchism M. S. Newton 117 16 Disease and medicine Martin Bock 124 17 Eastern Europe Addison Bross 132 18 The Far East J. H. Stape 139 19 Fin de siècle Laurence Davies 147 20 The First World War Richard Niland 155 21 Intellectual movements Richard Niland 163 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information Contents vii 22 Literary movements Robert Hampson 171 23 Modernism Michael Levenson 179 24 Nationalism and Empire Allan H. Simmons 187 25 Politics Allan H. Simmons 195 26 Popular culture Stephen Donovan 204 27 Publishing Aaron Zacks 212 28 Reading Linda Dryden 221 29 Religion John Lester 229 30 Science and technology Matthew Rubery 237 31 Sea Robert Foulke 245 32 Society Amar Acheraïou 253 Further reading 261 Index 275 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information Illustrations Illustrations to be found between pages 106 and 107 1 Apollo Korzeniowski Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009430) 2 Ewelina Korzeniowska Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009402) 3 Joseph Conrad, 1863 Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009342) 4 Tadeusz Bobrowski Jagiellonian Library, Cracow (Image IF 218) 5 Joseph Conrad in Cracow, 1874 Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009428) 6 The Duke of Sutherland, Circular Quay, Sydney, 1871 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London 7 The Torrens in the Southern Ocean, 1895 State Library of South Australia (Image SLSA: PRG 1373/2/25) 8 Manuscript leaf: An Outcast of the Islands Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009386) 9 Jessie George Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009332) 10 The Conrad family, 1908 Galsworthy Memorial Collection, University of Birmingham 11 John Galsworthy New York Public Library (Image 1241478) viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information List of illustrations ix 12 R. B. Cunninghame Graham by Frederick Hollyers (c. 1890) Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Image PH. 7673–1938) 13 Ford Madox Ford by E. O. Hoppé, 1915 Corbis Images UK, Ltd (Image 42–19700178) 14 Edward Garnett by Lucia Moholy, 1936 National Portrait Gallery, London (Image NPG P132) 15 Joseph Conrad by De’Ath and Condon, c. 1913 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC (Image LC-USZ62–67896) 16 Waterman pen advertisement The Scotsman, 30 June 1919,p.4 17 Conrad in Corsica with J. B. Pinker (left) and an unknown man, February 1921 Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (Image 1009410) 18 F. N. Doubleday New York Public Library (Image 1223690) 19 Time magazine cover, 7 April 1923 20 Joseph Conrad arriving in New York, May 1923 The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons Frontmatter More information Notes on contributors amar acheraı¨ou has published extensively on modernist, postmodernist and postcolonial literatures. The author of Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers (2008), his Conrad and the Reader: Questioning Modern Theories of Narrative and Readership is forthcoming from Palgrave (2009) and he is currently editing a volume on Joseph Conrad and the Orient. katherine isobel baxter is Research Assistant Professor in Cross- Cultural Studies in English at the University of Hong Kong. In 2004, she won The Joseph Conrad Society of America’s Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award. Her publications include Conrad and the Performing Arts, edited with Richard J. Hand (2009), and Conrad: The Contemporary Reviews (forthcoming), for which she is a co-editor. martin bock is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a trustee of The Joseph Conrad Society of America. He is author of Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (1985) and Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine (2002). addison bross is Professor of English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has published articles on Conrad in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Conradiana, The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and several volumes of the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series. His translation of selections from the memoirs of Tadeusz Bobrowski was published in 2009. mario curreli is Professor of English at the Università di Pisa. He is the author, editor or translator of more than thirty volumes by or about Conrad, the Romantics and the Scriblerians. A founding member of The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and of its Italian counterpart, he has taught at Exeter University and in Florence. x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88792-2 - Joseph Conrad in Context Edited by Allan H. Simmons