Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad
Edited by Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore
Price: £20.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-860421-1
Publication date: 25 October 2001
512 pages, 4 maps & 1 line illus, 196x129 mm
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| Review(s) from previous edition:
- 'excellent' - Giles Foden TLS
- 'a model reference work, one guaranteed to satisfy the existing cravings of the Conrad addict while doubtless introducing many new ones' - Jeremy Hawthorn, The Conradian
- 'lively and thorough' - Morris Hounion, Library Journal
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| Description | | - Provides a unique and comprehensive guide to one of the most complex men in English literature
- More than 400 A-Z entries written by two of the world's leading Conradians with the help of a small team of expert contributors
- Gives a synthesis of literary, biographical, and historical information on Joseph Conrad covering family, friends, ships and voyages, films and adaptations, places, novels, essays, influences, and reputation
- The text is fully cross-referenced to facilitate browsing
- Contains additional material: a classified contents list with headwords grouped in thematic batches, Conrad's family tree, a useful chronology spanning Conrad's life, maps showing Conrad's travels, an index of references to Conrad's works, and an alphabetical list of frequently cited texts
| 'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS
recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series.
In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
came out in paperback. Now the Oxford Reader's Companions to Hardy, Trollope, Conrad, and George Eliot will follow on from that success. In this format these books are
designed specifically to appeal to students of literature. Each contains a more comprehensive and accessible range of information than any other reference work on these writers.
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski had an astonishing life. 'Pole, Catholic, and nobleman' is how he described himself as at the age of 5. He was born in the Ukraine of Polish parents and spent his childhood in exile. It
was only after fifteen years at sea that he began writing in English, his third language and the one whose genius had, as he put it, 'adopted' him.
Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, together with their team of distinguished Advisers and Contributors, have created a unique and authoritative reference work on all things Conradian.
Over 400 entries cover Conrad's novels, stories, essays, and
reviews; his friends, family, and associates; films and adaptations; ships and voyages; places associated with his life and works; his influences and sources; his reputation and critical approaches to his work; historical contexts to his life.
Entries include:
Conrad's life: health, Polish inheritance, the sea, ships and voyages
People: Borys Conrad, Apollo and Ewa Korzeniowski, J. M.
Barrie, Stephen Crane, Stefan Zeromski
Places: America, Bangkok, Berdyczow, Congo, Cracow, Marseilles
Novels: Almayer's Folly
, Lord Jim
, Nostromo
Stories, essays, and reviews: 'An Anarchist', 'Typhoon', 'Autocracy and War', 'Legends', 'Tales of the Sea'
Influences and Sources: James Brooke, Alighieri Dante, Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emile Zola
Characters:
Almayer family, Mr Jones, Jim, Captain Mitchell, Nostromo, the Professor, Edith Travers
Reputation: biographies, films, influences on other writers, portraits and other images, translations
Historical context: First World War, Polish question, women's suffrage movement
In addition to the A-Z entries the Companion offers extra material: a classified contents list with headwords grouped in
thematic batches, Conrad's family tree, a useful chronology spanning Conrad's life, maps showing Conrad's travels, an index of references to Conrad's works, and an alphabetical list of frequently cited texts.
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Readership: Students of literature (especially undergraduate) and general readers.
| Contents |
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
List of Maps
List of Authors and Contributors
Classified Contents List
Abbreviations
A Note to the Reader
Conrad Family Tree
Chronology
A-Z Entries
Maps
Frequently Cited Texts
Index of References to Conrad's Works
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Owen Knowles, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Hull and
Gene M. Moore, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Amsterdam
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