The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad's works, reception, and legacy. This groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad's works - their artistry, vision, and ideas - continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad's works, reception, and legacy.

This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, women's studies, comparative literature, and other forms of art. They offer approaches as diverse as re-examining Conrad's sea voyages using newly available digital materials, analyzing his archipelagic narrative techniques, applying Chinese philosophy to Lord Jim, interrogating gendered epistemology in the neglected story "The Tale," considering Conrad alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, or Orhan Pamuk, or alongside sound, gesture, opera, graphic novels, or contemporary events.

An invaluable resource for students and scholars of Conrad and twentieth-century literature, this groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad's works - their artistry, vision, and ideas - continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.

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Debra Romanick Baldwin is Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas, USA.

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The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad's works, reception, and legacy. This groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad's works - their artistry, vision, and ideas - continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.

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Introduction

PART ONE: Conrad and Biography

1 The Sea Voyages Revisited

Helen Chambers

2 Conrad and the Carmelites: Irreconcilable Differences in Amy Foster

Kim Salmons

3 Modernist Nost/algia in The Mirror of the Sea

Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska

4 Conrad as Character

Nathalie Martinière

PART TWO: Conrad and Narrative

5 Crumbling IsletConrad's Archipelagic Writing

Julie Gay

6 Reading Conrad: The Art of Listening to a Silent Voice

Catherine Delesalle-Nancey

7 The Language of Gesture in Lord Jim and Chance

Susan Jones

8 The problem is not to be solved: Il Conde as Pensive Text

Maria Luigia Di Nisio

PART THREE: Conrad and Philosophy

9 Reading the Suffering Body: Schopenhauer and Ethics in Falk

Jana M. Giles

10 Enough Marvels and Mysteries as it Is: Conrad, Aristotle, and Nature

Alexia Hannis

11 The Taiji in Lord Jim and the I Ching

An Ning

12 Conrad and the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry

Debra Romanick Baldwin

PART FOUR: Conrad and Women

13 Unhomely Lives: Martyred Mothers in Conrad's Fiction

Carola M. Kaplan

14 Command Me: Agency and Desire in Conrad's Women

Joyce Wexler

15 Asian Food, Tropical Forest, and Indigenous Agency in Conrad's Malay Novels

PeiWen Clio Kao

16 The Man Who Wanted to Share: Gendered Epistemology in Conrad's The Tale

Yael Levin

PART FIVE: Conrad and Other Writers

17 Conrad, Greene, and the Dynamics of Hetero-Biography

Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

18 Cannibals in the City: The Urban Gothic Metropolis of The Secret Agent

Ellen Burton Harrington

19 Strolling Through Modernity: The Flâneur in Under Western Eyes and Orhan Pamuk's Snow

Simla Doangün

20 Refracting Romance: Optics in Conrad and Woolf

Susan E. Cook

PART SIX: Conrad and Politics

21 Conrad, Du Bois, and the Politics of Modernist Individualism

Zoë L. Henry

22 The Exilic Imagination from Lord Jim to The Unlighted Coast

Judith Paltin

23 Tenderness to all Pain and all Misery: Conradian Sympathy and the Mentally Disabled

Yumiko Iwashimizu

24 The Resonance of Conrad in Contemporary Europe

Joanna Skolik

PART SEVEN: Conrad and Other Forms of Art

25 Not a Tale for Children: Conrad's Operatic Narratives

Anna Marta Szczepan-Wojnarska

26 Conrad's Global Graphic Afterlives

Agnieszka Adamowicz-Popiech

27 Transmodal Shifts: Revisiting Amy Foster

Tania Zulli

28 Depth Sounder: The Acoustics of Conrad's Subliminal Ethics

Kate Burling